DISGRACED Bangladesh pace bowler Al-Amin Hossain returned home on Tuesday after ending his World Cup campaign prematurely being thrown out of the party for breaking the team rules.
Later when contacted he refused to talk saying that it was strictly prohibited for him from the Bangladesh Cricket Board being a part of the central contract.
‘The team management advised me not to talk to media,’ Al-Amin told a local daily on Tuesday over cell phone. ‘So at the moment, I can’t tell you anything,’ ‘I only want to say I did not do any crime,’ he added.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Sunday decided to send Al-Amin back home after he was found to have broken the team rules, as he returned hotel late on February 19 in Brisbane. He was alleged to have connection with some bookies for which he was under the surveillance of Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of ICC.
According to the report from Australia, the ACSU though did not bring up any charge against him; they questioned the Bangladesh team manager that whether his late return to the team hotel broke the team rules. The team manager then grilled him but only got confused reply which prompted the BCB to send him back as they assumed that the ACSU would observe him strongly which could put the whole team in embarrassing situation.
Some points are worth mentioning here – if he was questioned properly how could he give confused replies – it is, after all, very easy to ask someone whether or not they have a connection with bookies – surely someone can’t reply by saying that they don’t know. This would be a ridiculous statement in itself. Secondly, if his answers were ‘confusing’ then why was he not given to the ICC for interrogation -surely confused answers deserve more grilling.
Instead he was promptly dispatched to Dhaka because team officials thought that his presence would embarrass the team. While it is entirely possible that the ICC spared Bangladesh by not interrogating him further it would perhaps have been better if the ICC had indeed questioned him and found him either guilty or innocent. Surely a player on the national squad, as an individual, should be found innocent until proven guilty. By dancing to the tune of the ICC we have once again proven that it is more important to preserve a front than keep the honour of one of our players. Regardless of whether he is innocent or not his reputation has been tainted forever. This should have been in the forefront of the minds of the officials, whose job it is to keep up the morale of all the players.
Later when contacted he refused to talk saying that it was strictly prohibited for him from the Bangladesh Cricket Board being a part of the central contract.
‘The team management advised me not to talk to media,’ Al-Amin told a local daily on Tuesday over cell phone. ‘So at the moment, I can’t tell you anything,’ ‘I only want to say I did not do any crime,’ he added.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Sunday decided to send Al-Amin back home after he was found to have broken the team rules, as he returned hotel late on February 19 in Brisbane. He was alleged to have connection with some bookies for which he was under the surveillance of Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of ICC.
According to the report from Australia, the ACSU though did not bring up any charge against him; they questioned the Bangladesh team manager that whether his late return to the team hotel broke the team rules. The team manager then grilled him but only got confused reply which prompted the BCB to send him back as they assumed that the ACSU would observe him strongly which could put the whole team in embarrassing situation.
Some points are worth mentioning here – if he was questioned properly how could he give confused replies – it is, after all, very easy to ask someone whether or not they have a connection with bookies – surely someone can’t reply by saying that they don’t know. This would be a ridiculous statement in itself. Secondly, if his answers were ‘confusing’ then why was he not given to the ICC for interrogation -surely confused answers deserve more grilling.
Instead he was promptly dispatched to Dhaka because team officials thought that his presence would embarrass the team. While it is entirely possible that the ICC spared Bangladesh by not interrogating him further it would perhaps have been better if the ICC had indeed questioned him and found him either guilty or innocent. Surely a player on the national squad, as an individual, should be found innocent until proven guilty. By dancing to the tune of the ICC we have once again proven that it is more important to preserve a front than keep the honour of one of our players. Regardless of whether he is innocent or not his reputation has been tainted forever. This should have been in the forefront of the minds of the officials, whose job it is to keep up the morale of all the players.
