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26 Sports Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Shakib banned for two years for graft: ICC Free to resume international October 29, 2020 DHAKA: Bangladesh captain and star all-rounder Shakib for the India Tests and T20s today. But Bangladeshi Prime Al Hasan was banned yesterday from all cricket for two Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the country’s cricket years, with one year suspended, the International Cricket board “will always be with Shakib and will help him in Council (ICC) said. The ban came after Shakib “accepted every way.” three charges of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption She said that while match-fixers often contact players, Code”, the sport’s governing body said in a statement. Shakib’s “mistake is that when he was contacted he didn’t These included failing to disclose to the ICC’s Anti- give it too much importance. He didn’t inform... the ICC.” Corruption Unit full details of approaches or invitations Having grown up in a rural town west of the capital Dhaka, made in relation to the Bangladesh, and Shakib burst into the international scene after excelling in Zimbabwe Tri-Series in January 2018 as well as the 2018 age-level cricket. (IPL), it said. He is possibly Bangladesh’s most loved cricketer and The 32-year-old’s ban came as a blow to Bangladesh’s only last week successfully led a brief strike by preparations for next month’s tour of India where the all- Bangladesh’s professional cricketers to press for better rounder was set to lead the team for a two-Test series and pay and benefits. But this is not the first time the left arm three T20 international matches. orthodox spinner and left handed batsman has faced disci- Shakib, who has played 56 Test, 206 ODIs and 76 plinary actions. internationals, is by far Bangladesh’s best known In 2014, Shakib was suspended by the BCB from all player, having topped the ICC all-rounder rankings in all cricket for six months following “serious misbehaviour” three formats several times since 2009. with Bangladesh’s coach , and for He starred for the team during the recent World Cup in his altercation with a spectator during a ODI against India England, where he scored over 600 runs and picked 11 in Dhaka. . In the World Cup, he also became the fastest and “He has a severe attitude problem, which is unprece- only the fifth cricketer to reach 5,000 runs and 250 wick- dented in the history of Bangladesh cricket. We think that ets in ODIs. his behaviour is such that it’s directly impacting the team,” Shakib will be free to resume international cricket president Nazmul Hassan told October 29, 2020 subject to him satisfying the conditions reporters at that time. in respect of the suspended part of the sanction, the ICC Last week Bangladesh cricket authorities said they said. “I am obviously extremely sad to have been banned would also take legal action against Shakib for allegedly from the game I love, but I completely accept my sanction breaching his contract to sign a sponsorship deal with a for not reporting the approaches,” Shakib was quoted as top mobile phone operator. saying in the ICC statement. Shakib inked the agreement with former national team DHAKA: Bangladesh national cricket team captain (2R) speaks with media as Bangladesh There was no immediate comment from the country’s sponsor Grameenphone for an undisclosed sum at a time Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon (2L) stands next to him at the Sher-e-Bangla National cricket authorities who were expected to name the teams when he was also leading the players’ strike. — AFP Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. — AFP

“We will closely monitor performances in this match as this month. The 21-year-old was released from a Test Test spots up for well as the coming rounds of the Sheffield Shield before series against Sri Lanka last season to deal with mental deciding upon our squad for the two-Test series against health issues. Pakistan,” national selector Trevor Hohns said. A recent double from his Victoria teammate grabs with Carey to Former Australian captain recently Maddinson has seen both batsmen thrust into international Netherlands secure declared , and, despite contention. captain A his poor Ashes form, the only sure starters “Both are exciting batsmen whom we’ve had our eye on T20 WCup spot, UAE for the upcoming Test series against Pakistan. for some time,” Hohns said. Carey, who is vice captain of Australia’s One-Day and Exciting paceman will make his come- : Australian selectors yesterday flagged a num- T20 teams, had a strong performance with both bat and back from a shoulder injury after missing out on the World have last chance ber of spots still up for grabs in the upcoming Test gloves in the World Cup. Cup and the Ashes series. series against Pakistan, with an A side promising a run-off The South Australian was unlucky to miss out on an He will be joined in the attack by Michael PARIS: The Netherlands became the third team, after among a number of contenders. Ashes berth, with captain Tim Payne the prefered - Neser, and Riley Meredith. Wicketkeeper will lead Australia A in a keeper and Mathew Wade as back up. Pakistan will take on Australia A on October 31 for the Papua New Guinea and Ireland, to book a place at next three-day match against Pakistan ahead of a Test series, “This fixture represents an opportunity to provide Alex three-day tour match in Sydney ahead of a two Test series year’s T20 World Cup after thrashing United Arab pushing his case for Test selection. with more leadership experience and he will be supported against Australia in Brisbane and in November. Emirates in Dubai yesterday. , who was controversially left out of the Ashes by two experienced vice-captains in and Australia A squad: Alex Carey (c), Marcus Harris, Joe UAE, who started the tournament with victory over squad, will join Marcus Harris at the top of the order, with ,” Hohns said. Burns, Usman Khawaja, , Travis Head, Nic Ireland, could only muster 80-9 in their 20 overs which Usman Khawaja, Travis Head, Nic Maddinson and rising Young gun Pucovski will eye a return to the interna- Maddinson, , Jhye Richardson, Sean Abbott, the Dutch knocked off with 29 balls remaining. star Will Pucovski rounding out the top six. tional stage after a strong first class hundred for Victoria Riley Meredith. — AFP The Netherlands, who face Ireland in the competi- tion semi-final, won by eight wickets to progress to the eight-team first round of the World Cup in Australia in to bat in his first full international on home soil since serv- October 2020. Australia skipper ing a 12-month ball-tampering ban. Finch said he wanted UAE have a final chance to reach the tournament his batsmen to be ready to play anywhere in the order when they face Scotland in a qualifying playoff today. according to match situations, to make the team more UAE won the toss and chose to bat, but were quickly Finch backing competitive when they host the T20 World Cup. in trouble as Rohan Mustafa fell to Fred Klaasen in the “I think at all times, you’ll see four or five guys in the first over. Things turned from bad to worse as UAE lost Agar to become sheds with their pads on,” said Finch. “To be really flexible their first five wickets for just nine runs. as a middle order, prepared to go in at any stage, is impor- Waheed Ahmed and Mohammad Boota went some T20 ‘finisher’ tant to catch teams off guard. way toward repairing the damage with a sixth-wicket “If you’ve got left and right-hand combinations, there’s of 45 before both fell in the same over to a few options there, so it’s a nicely balanced side at the Johannesburg-born Brandon Glover, whose 4-12 earned MELBOURNE: Australia captain is hoping moment.” With the T20 World Cup the only major piece of him the Player of the Match award. spin bowler can blossom into a swashbuck- silverware missing in Australia’s bursting trophy cabinet, Ahmed Raza top-scored with 22 from 24 balls, but a have scheduled a glut of T20 matches to ling “finisher” in the batting lineup to give the team more Ashton Agar target of 81 was never likely to stretch the Dutch. Max help the world’s fifth-ranked team build. flexibility ahead of next year’s T20 World Cup. O’Dowd fell early but Ben Cooper, with 41 , guid- “It’s a really great time to be playing T20 cricket for Left-arm spinner Agar, who has averaged 13.66 with real finisher towards the back end of an innings in T20 and Australia because you’re getting enough game time to ed the Dutch to a victory that sends them to Australia as the bat from 16 T20Is, was named at seven in the batting in one-day games. “So if he can keep developing that, it’ll start to develop that squad mentality,” said Finch. “Now well as to the qualifying tournament semifinals. — AFP order in the series-opener against Sri Lanka on Sunday give you a lot of options to play that second spinner or go we’ve got a specific date in mind, which is the start of the but went unused as Australia’s top order dominated in the with four quicks, or if there’s another all-rounder that World Cup, to really build that 12-month foundation of a 134-run victory. comes in.” On Sunday, hard-hitting all-rounder Glenn really solid T20 side that can beat the best and sustain that While Agar is some way short of all-rounder status, Maxwell was sent in ahead of number three Steve Smith for a long period of time.” Finch said the 26-year-old was working hard to get there. and smashed 62 off 28 balls after David Warner (100 not Australia will look to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in Tokyo unveils 2020 “His batting’s still developing,” Finch told reporters in out) and Finch (64) set up a 122-run opening partnership. the three-match T20 series against Sri Lanka at Brisbane yesterday. The captain’s call denied former skipper Smith a chance “Something that he’s been working on is becoming that tomorrow. — venue inspired by traditional India, Bangladesh to GUST sponsors alumni Japanese techniques Abdulaziz Al-Shatti play first day-night TOKYO: A custom-built $188 million gymnastics venue inspired by traditional Japanese building techniques and to Tokyo Olympics using wood from around the country was unveiled by Test in Kolkata organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics yesterday. KUEAIT: Gulf University for Science and Technology The futuristic-looking Ariake Gymnastics Centre in KOLKATA: India will take on Bangladesh in both (GUST) officially announced this week its sponsorship central Tokyo uses 2,300 cubic metres of wood and is nations’ first ever day-night test match, to be played of GUST alum and fencing champion, Abdulaziz Al- intended to hark back to methods that predate the use of at in Kolkata from Nov. 22 to 26 as the Shatti, in his efforts to qualify for the Olympics in 2020. modern construction materials in Japan. second game of a two-match series. Newly appointed Renowned fencer, Al-Shatti is taking part in many tour- The structure features a gently undulating roof, with Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president naments over the next year in order to qualify for the external walls constructed from lengths of cedar wood. Sourav Ganguly, a long-time supporter of day-night international tournament taking place in Tokyo. Supporting rods allow the building to look from a dis- tests, first proposed the idea to home side captain GUST alumni and athlete, Abdulaziz Al-Shatti, said, tance as though it is suspended in the air. Organisers said before speaking with Bangladesh Cricket “This isn’t the first time GUST supports me on my jour- it was intended to look like a “a wooden bowl, floating in Board officials. ney. The university really embraced my passion and skill the bay area”. “Day-night is a huge step forward and in the sport, even while I was a student. They took into The building, one of a handful custom-built for the Games, “symbolises Japan’s wood culture and viewers can we believe it will bring back the crowd into stadiums consideration my local and international tournament feel its simple beauty”, the organisers said. “We’re using a and a whole lot of young children to the sport,” commitments, and always helped me in making it work lot of wood,” venue general manager Koichi Fukui told Ganguly said in a statement yesterday. Bangladesh with my academic load and schedule without sacrificing reporters. “We can smell wood and feel the warmth of will be without their all-rounder captain Shakib Al my educational goals.” wood,” he said. Hasan, who was banned from all cricket for at least a Al-Shatti is the first Kuwaiti fencer since 2002 to Built at a cost of 20.5 billion yen, the venue features a year yesterday after he was found to have breached qualify to the Olympics in Rio, in 2016, by winning the Qualification Zone Championships. His individual fenc- domed ceiling constructed from Japanese larch with no the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption steel framework and is among the largest of its kind in the code. Ganguly said the match would help support test ing career has seen him win a total of 101 medals in dif- ferent categories and competitions, including: 50 world. The venue can seat 12,000 spectators on long cricket, the longest format of the game, which has medals in Kuwait League Championships, 14 medals in benches, and will host Olympic artistic, rhythmic and tram- seen dwindling audiences in recent years. Kuwait Local Open Championships, 7 medals in poline events, as well as Paralympic boccia. “Test cricket is of utmost priority, and we at BCCI International Open Championships, 13 medals in Gulf The main Olympic stadium designed by renowned will leave no stone unturned to bring this format back Championships, 15 medals in Arab Championships, and Japanese architect Kengo Kuma also heavily features the to its feet,” the former India captain said. 2 medals in Asian Championships, not to mention all the use of wood in a nod to traditional techniques. The gym- India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Ireland are the championships and titles won with his local club, or the nastics venue is a temporary site, which is expected to be only teams among the 12 test-playing nations to have Kuwait National Team. Al-Shatti has been training hard Abdulaziz Al-Shatti converted into an exhibition centre after the Games. not yet played day-night Tests. One of the major with Kuwait Fencing Federation coach in preparation Organisers say they plan to repurpose some of the concerns for Bangladesh will be the lack of match for this journey to the Olympics in 2020. prides itself in supporting the skills and talents of all its wood from the site, including the benches, in the exhibition practice with the pink balls used in day-night games, As part of GUST’s new goals and values, it is keen to students, inside and outside the classroom, for a truly centre and other sites including schools. To save money, having only played one first class match with them in focus more on impact within the community and so, it well-rounded educational experience. organisers will use 25 existing sites in hosting the 2020 the country in February 2013. — AFP was an easy decision to embark on this journey with Follow us and Abdulaziz on this journey to the Games, building just eight new permanent venues and 10 one of its model students and athletes. The university Olympics on our social media channels @gust_official. temporary venues. — AFP