Chaos at BCB meeting: What happened behind the scenes

Sports Desk

The virtual board meeting of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is usually supposed to be the focal point for policy-making discussions on the development of cricket in the country. But the fourth board meeting of the BCB held on September 20, 2026 (Sunday) turned into the stage for an unprecedented, unwanted and embarrassing incident.

Although the meeting was scheduled to be held at 6 pm as per the pre-scheduled time, it was rescheduled for 3 pm due to urgent need and the directors were informed accordingly. After the virtual meeting started, the new director and BCB’s head of medical department, Dr. Sarkar Mahbub Ahmed Shamim, joined and left the meeting after a while. After about two hours, he rejoined the meeting and started shouting questions repeatedly about why the meeting time was brought forward.

Mizanur Rahman, another director present at the meeting and owner of the two-time BPL winning team Fortune Barisal, requested him to focus on the main discussion of the meeting instead of arguing repeatedly about the same issue. But this request angered Dr. Sarkar Shamim. He lost control of himself and started behaving incoherently and started abusing Mizanur Rahman in extremely inaudible and ugly language. The entire BCB family was extremely embarrassed due to such unprecedented and incoherent behavior in an internal meeting of a responsible organization. The situation got so out of control that at one stage the BCB president was also forced to move away from the camera.

A physician by profession, Dr. Sarkar Mahbub Ahmed Shamim is an influential leader of the BNP’s medical organization ‘DAB’. There are allegations that he has been behaving harshly and offensively with many BCB directors for a long time, showing his political influence. Not only that, there are also allegations of extreme negligence and negligence in the management of the BCB’s medical department under him. The revelation of such ugly behavior with sports-friendly businessmen who have given a huge amount of money and labor to the country’s cricket has created extreme anger in the sports arena. Those concerned fear that due to such arbitrary behavior of the board directors, cricket-loving investors may turn away in the future.

When asked for his reaction over the telephone after the news of the commotion spread in the media, Dr. Sarkar Mahbub Ahmed Shamim, however, denied the entire incident. He claimed that there was no verbal altercation or abuse at the board meeting other than normal conversations. However, despite his claim, several days have passed since the incident, extreme tension and commotion continues in the country’s sports arena and BCBpara over the incident.