Aminul Islam becomes new BCB president

Aminul Islam has been appointed the new president of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). The former national cricket team captain has taken over as the 16th president of the board.

Iftekhar Rahman, a director of BCB, officially announced this at a press conference after the BCB directors’ meeting on Friday evening.

The same meeting also finalised Nazmul Abedin Fahim and Fahim Sinha as vice presidents.

National Sports Council (NSC) appointed Aminul Islam as a BCB director on Friday afternoon after cancelling Faruque Ahmed’s nomination on Thursday (29 May) night.

Later, BCB’s board of directors elected Aminul Islam as the president in a board meeting on Friday evening.

Aminul Islam played for the national team for more than a decade. He represented Bangladesh in 13 Test matches and 39 ODIs (One Day Internationals). He was the first Bangladeshi to score a Test century. After retiring from international cricket in 2002, he began coaching in Bangladesh, and later settled in Australia with his family.

Aminul served the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in various capacities over the past decade.

He also served as the development manager for ICC’s Asia region before joining the BCB. He was also the head of ICC’s high-performance operations and training education.

Aminul's contract with the ICC as development manager will end next month.

In August last year, Faruque Ahmed and Nazmul Abedin were appointed as BCB directors nominated by the NSC. Faruque was selected by the directors as the BCB president. However, the NSC decided to revoke his nomination after just nine months.

On Wednesday (28 May) night, Faruque met with sports adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain where he was asked to step down from the BCB presidency. However, Faruque said he would not resign.

Later that evening, eight BCB directors submitted a letter to the NSC expressing a vote of no confidence against Faruque. That same night, the NSC cancelled Faruque’s nomination as a director, effectively removing him as the BCB president.

Aminul Islam will serve as the BCB president until October this year.