Brothers players request BCB to settle DPL payment issue

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Brothers Union players met BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury on Tuesday to inform the board they were not yet paid their dues for playing in the 2016 Dhaka Premier League.

Brothers Union are the second club after Victoria Sporting Club to meet the CEO for not being paid in time. The Victoria players still remain unpaid despite their complaint on June 23. Six days later, the BCB paid the players from Kalabagan Cricket Academy and Cricket Coaching School a partial amount after the teams received little from their respective clubs.

The DPL players were supposed to be paid 30% of the full amount before the tournament started on April 22, the next 30% by the end of the first phase and the last 40% by August 3, six weeks following the end of the Super League. However, according to the Brothers Union players, most of them weren’t paid after the first instalment. Nafees Iqbal, Shahriar Nafees, Nabil Samad were among the players who met Chowdhury.

“Most of the players have been paid 30%,” Nafees said. “While we should have received our full amount by now, we haven’t even been paid our second instalment …

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