For the first time since widespread anti-government demonstrations toppled his party, a Bangladeshi baseball star and ousted senator has taken to the area.
Shakib Al Hasan, 37, was cleared by Bangladesh’s fresh time government last week to experience Pakistan in a two-match Test set starting on Wednesday.
The former MP played despite protesters ‘ earlier requests to remove baseball players who they alleged were loyal to former president Sheikh Hasina.
Ms. Hasina was forced to resign as prime minister earlier this month and escape the nation.
Shakib is considered one of his region’s greatest golfers, with 4, 505 works in 67 Test games. As a rewrite spinner, he holds the record for most Test innings in Bangladesh’s background with 237.
He had won an unchallenged election in January to join the ruling Awami League party in parliament.
He has so far kept quiet about the social unrest that has occurred in his nation and that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people in confrontations with security forces.
In Dhaka, some Bangladeshis earlier this month protested against Sheikh Hasina-affiliated baseball committee members.
Previous Bangladesh Cricket Board part Rafiqul Islam specifically criticized Shakib.
” When pupils were being killed, he not protested. Many of these individuals regarded him as a hero. He may have arrived home first and explained why he was silent, he told the news organization AFP.
But, the country’s fresh de facto sports minister- 26-year-old student leader Asif Mahmud- said the team should remain “formed on merit”.
Ahead of the line, Bangladesh commander Najmul Hossain Shanto said the political crisis would certainly change Shakib’s performance.
He has known his position and how to make himself because he has played this game for a long time. I am hardly thinking about his social job- we all treat him as a cricketer”, he told a news conference.
” I hope he will do anything particular in this line”, he added.
After playing in the Global T20 League in Canada, where Bangladeshis even chanted phrases against him, Shakib joined the Pakistani club next year.
Eight weeks ago, he won a seat for the ruling party in his hometown of Magura in an election that the opposition group boycotted.
However, his small political career was slowed by widespread presentations against a contentious work limit law earlier this month.
The fatal demonstrations then grew into national discontent with Sheikh Hasina and her 15 years of autocratic rule. Within days, the ruling Awami League group was dissolved and its MPs ousted from governments.
The Bangladeshi baseball team’s absence from teaching has been caused by the turmoil in Dhaka, and Pakistan’s baseball committee has invited them four days early to make up for their lack of planning.
In August and September, the two nations will perform two Test suits.