“We recommended six month ban from international cricket and it will be implemented from tomorrow,” BCB director Ismail Haider told reporters after the hearing. “He is yet to play domestic cricket for his earlier ban that is expected to end this September. But today we had taken this decision for his Facebook post. Though he said that it was hacked, we don’t have the mechanism to verify that,” he added.
Ismail said Sabbir has been warned of a lengthy ban if his misdemeanours continued. Sabbir has been charged in the past for a number of issues like physically assaulting a fan during a National Cricket League match in Rajshahi, using abusive words while replying to a Facebook post of a fan and hitting team-mate Mehedi Hasan during the Afghanistan series. The hard-hitting batsman is still serving a six-month ban from domestic cricket as a punishment and was also denied a national contract along with a fine of Tk 20 lakh. In 2016, he was fined 30 per cent of his BPL contract money for taking a female guest into his hotel room.
“Now he is banned from international cricket but we have warned him that if he continues in this manner he will be handed with a lengthy ban,” Ismail said. “He repented for his action. According to our finding he has lost around Tk 1.5 crore due to his earlier punishments. Some rectify and some don’t. Probably he has been lacking in guidance while there is a possibility that he is mixing with wrong people.”
The incident is said to have occurred during the ODI series between Bangladesh and hosts West Indies in July. Earlier, the fan at the receiving end of Sabbir’s ire said, on condition of anonymity, said that it was shocking for an international player to issue a physical assault threat.
“It was simply shocking,” the victim told Cricbuzz. “I just expressed my feeling on my post and one of junior tagged it to him and we received a similar reply. I would not have taken it seriously but as there was a threat of physical assault I got scared and shared it,” said the MBA student of Dhaka University.
The said account, “Shabbir Rahaman Roman” (the name also used in BCB’s official emails to the players and media) – deactivated since the incident was reported to BCB – had more than 90,000 followers and is believed to be Sabbir’s personal account.
The BCB president had earlier said that they had called three cricketers including Nasir Hossain. But he has been let go as he is still recovering from a knee operation. Nasir was heavily criticised for his personal relationship with Shah Humayra Suba, who decided to go public about their personal conversations on social media. “We have to consider that he is out of cricket and still recovering from an injury. But he might be called in the coming days,” Ismail said.
Courtesy : cricbuzz
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