Tamim was dropped after the drama

According to BCB sources, in the meeting, Shakib wanted to step down from captaincy as he didn’t want unfit players to go to the World Cup. It’s understood that Shakib was pertaining to Tamim’s current injury situation.

As the news spread history morning, it caught everyone by surprise. It also delayed the advertisement of the World Cup team, which according to the BCB’s sanctioned social handles, was listed for the innings break of the day- night third ODI against New Zealand.

The board circulated the final team on its social media platforms at around8.14 pm indeed though it has been a tradition for the pickers to advertise a team at some press briefing, which was some time late by another half- an- hour or so.

Appearing at the press briefing, Chief Selector Minhazul Abedin said,” The team is prepared after agitating with the medical department, platoon operation, players, the commander, and the head trainer as well. We followed the same procedure for Tamim as we typically do in the case of any other player.”

But those associated with the game said that Tamim’s injury issue is only a rationale to hide the bigger problem anguishing the public platoon.

They said that the whole occasion is disturbing for a platoon heading to a global showpiece event, which will commence in India on October 5.

It also formerly again exposed lack of cohesion in the public platoon and the board’s incapability to handle similar situations professionally, they said.

An functionary with the knowledge of Tamim’s medical condition said that the left- handed batter’s back injury is known to everybody.

” It wasn’t any problem that can help to him from play handed that he manage his game it duly. He was so fluent in the game against countries of New Zealand. It could have better for his confidence had he played the third ODI,” said the functionary.

Tamim sat out the last game with the platoon operation saying that he’d decided out for rest. But interposers said Tamim Iqbal decisions had to do with a longstanding rift involving him, Shakib and trainer Hathurusingha.

Tamim and Shakib haven’t been in talking terms for a long time and a board functionary, preferring not to be named, said,” The relationship has come so complicated that nothing knows how to break it.”

The board chairman has also admitted it intimately, but has done little to neutralise it.

Allegation has also been replete that Hathurusingha has not done enough to play the interceder’s part. Since his return as Bangladesh trainer in February this time, Hathurusingha has so far failed to make the platoon as a unit.

His incapability to produce harmony in the platoon was one of the six reasons that the Sri Lankan justice board cited for his termination as trainer in 2019, after the public platoon’s poor run of form.

Tamim blazoned his withdrawal from all forms of justice, in dramatic circumstances, after playing Bangladesh’s first match against the touring Afghanistan platoon on July 5 in Chattogram. Interposers say an emotional Tamim, who has frequently been criticised for not professionally acting under pressure, took the decision from a concern that the platoon operation has not taken him into confidence.

At that time, he’d reversed his decision after an intervention from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

This time, however, there wasn’t return for Tamim.