The crisis within the Bangladesh Cricket Board has deepened, with multiple resignations from its board even before completing six months in office, raising questions over its stability.Seven out of 25 directors have already stepped down, including four who resigned after Saturday’s board meeting. The exits have increased uncertainty around the future of the current administration.
Despite the situation, BCB president Aminul Islam said on Sunday that he will not step down. His remarks came as an investigation into alleged malpractice and abuse of power in last year’s election has submitted its report to the Bangladesh government.The board is facing pressure from the sports ministry, which has questioned the validity of the election, Bangladesh’s absence from the T20 World Cup co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka, and allegations of political interference and favouritism within the BCB.The four directors who resigned on April 4 are Saniyan Taneem, Mehrab Alam, Faiazur Rahman and Manjurul Alam.“I will sit in my chair, what else can I do? I will be the last person to go,” Aminul told Jamuna TV on Saturday as quoted by ESPNCricinfo. “I have a very good, dedicated and honest team [in the BCB]. I want to serve Bangladesh cricket with this team.”“Nobody is indispensable. I was the only [Bangladeshi] to work in the ICC. I am not saying I am something huge, but I am sitting here because of my experience. I left everything to be here to support my country. If this is no longer mine, I will look at another path. But I want to support my country.”“Our team (board of directors) are good and they are dedicated and honest so I want to work with this team and serve Bangladesh cricket,” he said. “We could not work with freedom for one day as an external force was always disturbing us and still doing that. Our cricket is stagnant and I have said a lot of times that an external force is disturbing us and because of that the pace of our cricket has slowed down.”Aminul said he could not appear before the investigation committee due to a clash in schedules and instead submitted a written response.
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“I did not face the committee. I was busy in two separate meetings, so the dates clashed with their schedule for me. I gave them my reply in writing,” he said. “I was not involved with anything [in the board elections]. I was involved in one area, which is now under investigation. I will not go into the details, but I can just say that the ad-hoc committee runs the district sports organisation, according to our constitution. It is clearly stated that the names [of councillors] should come from within the ad-hoc committee.”“When only three names came from within those ad-hoc committees, we were forced to write to them again. We said that please send the names from within your ad-hoc committee. This is the only thing I was involved in,” he added.Aminul was appointed BCB president in May 2025 after replacing Faruque Ahmed as the government-endorsed director on the board. He later contested the elections in October and was elected president.Former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal had alleged malpractice and abuse of power against Aminul and withdrew from the election race.
