At Monday’s board election, Aminul Islam was re-elected as the BCB president. He has been in the same position for the past four months and will be serving a four-year tenure.
Shakhawat Hossain and Faruque Ahmed, the former president Aminul Islam had ousted in May, will serve as vice presidents.
A hotel in Dhaka hosted the day-long poll, which featured both paper ballots and electronic ones. The 25-member body was formed by the election of 23 directors and the later announcement of two government representatives. Out of the 156 eligible voters, 115 votes were cast, according to the electoral commission.
There are two steps in the election process. Twenty-three board directors are chosen in three different categories by the voters, known as councillors. Aminul Islam was one of 10 directors chosen from the first group, which consists solely of the nation’s districts and divisions. The bulk of 12 directors are chosen by the all-powerful Dhaka clubs, which make up the second category. The third group consists of captains, retired cricket players, representatives from various groups, and others.
Before the new 25-member board elected a president and two vice-presidents, the election commission released the names of the board directors at 6:30 p.m. Without any opposition, Aminul Islam, Faruque, and Shakhawat were elected to these positions.
Aminul Islam, Faruque, and Khaled Mashud are the three former captains who currently serve on the board of directors. Abdur Razzak, a former cricket player for Bangladesh, was nominated without opposition from the Khulna subcategory and was appointed a board director. He had just quit his position as a senior men’s selector.
Election commission members claimed that there were “intimidations” throughout Monday’s voting, despite the fact that there were no significant incidents. There were also a number of controversies in the run-up to the election. When BCB president Aminul Islam sent out a letter requesting new nominations for the first category of the polls, former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal had already resigned from the campaign after claiming meddling. The day before the elections, the nation’s courts cleared the letter.
Aminul declared he intended to stay in this position after “falling in love with Bangladesh cricket’s development” after being officially sworn in as the new president.
Aminul Islam had compared his short-term position to a “quick T20 innings” when he was elected on May 30.
Aminul led the team in its first World Cup appearance in 1999 and participated in 13 Test matches and 39 ODIs.
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