National cricketers of Bangladesh, including Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim announced today that they are going on strike and will boycott all cricketing activities till their 11 point charter of demands is met.
The cricketers have put forward an 11-point charter of demands which include an increase in match fee for first-class cricket, allowing them to play for franchise team when they are free from the domestic league and giving priority to local players and coaches among others.
The three-match T-20 series and two test matches with India is scheduled to start from November 3. The announcement of strike casts uncertainty over the series.
The discontent among the Bangladeshi cricketers has been brewing after the Bangladesh Cricket Board, BCB announced that it will scrap the franchise-based model for Bangladesh Premier League matches. This would lead to a sharp reduction in the earning of the players. Moreover, the BCB did not raise the match fee for the first-class completion causing resentment among the players.
Recently, in an interview to a newspaper Shakib Al Hasan criticised Bangladesh cricket administration for lacking any long term planning for the cricket.
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