BCB gets legal notice to ban Shakib Al Hasan after murder FIR against him

The lawyers of Rafiqul Islam, the father of garment factory worker Rubel, who was killed on August 5 in Dhaka’s Adabor, has served a legal notice to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) via email and registered post, demanding the immediate removal of star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan from all forms of cricket.

The former Bangladesh captain Shakib was named in an FIR along with 146 during the riots in Bangladesh earlier this month that resulted in the ouster of Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina.

It has been learnt that Shakib’s fate will be decided after the Pakistan vs Bangladesh first Test in Rawalpindi.

As per reports, the notice cites ICC rules stating that a player named in a criminal case cannot participate in the national team.

Moreover, the notice also requests that efforts be made to bring Shakib back to Bangladesh to aid in the murder case investigation and inform the ICC about this development.

In response to the development, BCB president Faruque Ahmed said, “Let me say about Shakib. A case has been lodged. We are yet to get any legal notice. FIR was given in the case and later there will be an investigation and following that, the case will move in one direction or the other.”