IND vs BAN | People conspiring to sabotage Bangladesh's tour of India, claims Nazmul Hasan

The last few weeks have been an action-packed one for Bangladesh cricket, albeit for all the wrong reasons. First, several local coaches were fired for not fielding leg-spinners in the line-up in the National Cricket League (NCL). Then, the players went on a strike and threatened to boycott the India tour if their demands were not met and finally, president Nazmul Hasan assured them of the same to restore sanity. 

"Tamim had initially told me that he will only skip the second Test (in Kolkata from November 22-26) for the birth of his second child. However, after the meeting with players, Tamim comes to my room and said, he wants to opt out of whole tour. I asked him 'why so?' but he simply said he won't go," Hasan added.

He also expressed his anger and disappointment over the players arranging a strike without his knowledge and said that he now regrets agreeing to their demands and believes that he should have just gone aggressive on them instead.

"Now after this, I won't be surprised if I find that someone else pulls out at the eleventh hour when we would be left with no other options. I have called Shakib to have a chat. Now if he also pulls out, where do I even find a captain? I might have to change whole combination. What do I even do with these players," he said.

"I should have told the players, 'Unless you call off strike, we will not sit with you guys across the negotiation table. Speaking to various member boards, I felt that this should have been our approach but the media also created pressure on us," Nazmul concluded.