The recent punishment given to Sakib Al Hasan by ICC and Bangladesh Cricket

Team without Sakib Al Hasan.

There aren’t too many things that one can be happy about Bangladesh. It’s only cricket that
makes it easy. It is the only opium that gives this young 47-year-old nation what it
desperately seeks: Validation.

The Bangladesh national cricket team goes by the nickname of the Tigers after the royal

Bengal tiger. And Shakib has been their first truly world-class player. Since his debut in
2007, he has consistently been rated as the best all-rounder in the world, often carrying the
team on his shoulders. He played a starring role in the 2019 World Cup. He has also been at
the top of the all-rounders’ ranking regularly since 2010. He is their lodestar, commanding
their undivided attention the first perhaps to do so after the great liberator Sheikh Mujib Ur
Rahman.

Bangladesh cricket was rocked to its foundations last evening when the International Cricket
Council (ICC) informed that it had banned the all-rounder for two years, with one year of the
sentence suspended, after failing to report fixing offer.

The all rounder has cooperated fully with the ICC , ACU and has pledged his commitment to
its education programme and vowed that he will come back stronger, and how the
Bangladesh Cricket Board and the fans are standing firmly behind their star player.” BCB
President Hassan stated, “We hope he will come back as a better and wiser cricketer and
serve Bangladesh for many more years when his sanction will be over. During the suspension
the BCB will continue to support his efforts at returning to cricket.”

The sanction has been perceived as a "big blow for the Bangladesh team. The team has lost a
strike bowler, irreplaceable and a world-class top batsman. In the aftermath of the ban,
Bangladesh has been overwhelmingly sympathetic to its fallen superstar. the Bangladeshi are
the most committed supporters in world cricket, often to the point of being delusional. And
so, hundreds have taken to the streets to protest not Shakib’s indiscretion, but the ban itself.
“Karon naamta Shakib Al Hasan” - “because the name is Shakib Al Hasan” is a common
refrain in Bangladesh, employed in a variety of contexts. Non-locals may find it difficult to
wrap their heads around it, but Bangladeshis consider it self-explanatory, often using it as the
clinching argument. This refrain helps explain what Shakib means to Bangladesh. Sakib is
the combination of all segments as well as inspiration of his accompany to team. All existing
team members are very much touched with him as fellow teammate. They are all heartfelt
fellows. So this belongingness to team is strength for winning spirit. Now this ban has put the
team in a great challenge, fallen them in mind socked. Mental strength is under threat. In
spite of this challenge, every team member has to show their cricket spirit in their self
commitment. But we hope Sakib will return even stronger.
Submitted By

Fatema Tuj Johora

Id: M190102908

Course code: 6103

Course Title: Sentence and Discourse

Batch: 9th

Dept. of English

Jagannath University, Dhaka