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Jahurul Islam fined 50% of BCL-final match fee

Jahurul Islam has been fined 50% of his Bangladesh Cricket League final match fee after appearing for Dhaka University in a university match without the BCB's permission

Mohammad Isam
Mohammad Isam
27-Feb-2013
Jahurul Islam appeared in a university match without the BCB's approval  •  AFP

Jahurul Islam appeared in a university match without the BCB's approval  •  AFP

Jahurul Islam has been fined 50% of his Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) final match fee after he played in a university match without the Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) permission. He was also warned that a similar incident in the future will result in an automatic two-match ban.
Ahead of the third day of the BCL final held at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, he played for Dhaka University in the nearby Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium, in an inter-university indoor cricket tournament. With the final being a day-night match, Jahurul returned to the ground two hours before play started, having played an eight-overs-a-side match. Later on the same day, he was named in the 15-man Test squad for the Sri Lanka tour, returning after almost three years.
A day after the final, which Jahurul almost won single-handedly for North Zone, he was summoned by the BCB's cricket operations committee because he is a contracted player under Grade C.
"The BCB disciplinary committee felt that as an experienced cricketer at domestic and international level, Islam should have been more aware of the terms of his engagement with the BCB," the board said in a statement. "As captain of a side playing in the final of a first-class event, he should have displayed a more responsible attitude, not only to his team-mates, but also to the outcome of the match.
"Finally, by playing in an unauthorised capacity, in an unfamiliar format, he had exposed himself unnecessarily to the risk of possible injury, thereby jeopardising the selection process of the Bangladesh Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka."

Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo's Bangladesh correspondent