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Papon elected BCB chief for 4th time


By BSS
Published : 07 Oct 2021 08:19 PM | Updated : 09 Oct 2021 08:08 PM

Nazmul Hassan Papon, who was elected Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president again after grabbing highest votes in the 'board of directors' election, said that he didn't seek vote from the councillors.

While this comment came up as surprise to all present in his first press conference after being elected president, he made it clear that he wanted to realize his actual situation in the field of election.

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"To be honest, I didn't seek votes from the councillors despite being contested in the election for the first time," he said on Thursday. "But someone else can seek vote for me or can give sms but I don't seek vote personally. I want to see my actual situation. You may say, I wanted to test myself."

Papon acquired 53 votes, which was joint-highest in the Categroy-2 (Dhaka League Clubs). Veteran organizer Enayet Hossain Siraj and young organizer Gazi Golam Mortuza Pappa also bagged 53 votes as 57 councillors were finalized for this category.

The BCB chief said he was surprised to get so many votes in the election.

"What I understood that the councillors actually want the development of the cricket and that's why, they were not biased. Even there are people, whom I believe don't like me, they voted me. This made me believe for the sake of cricket, all people came under same umbrella."

It was the third straight time, Papon was elected BCB president, while it's his fourth term in BCB as its chief.

Nazmul Hassan Papon first became president of the country's most influential sporting body after being nominated by the government in 2012 when the then BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal became the ICC president.

As ICC made it mandatory to elect president by an election for its all member countries, the BCB changed its constitution, paving the way of election in this post. Papon became the first elected president in BCB's history in 2013 and then again was elected in 2017.

Papon and his directors placed floral wreaths at Bangabandhu's portrait in front of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi Road No 32 in the capital on Thursday before starting their new mission.