Tuesday, 10 November 2026

Aminul Islam Bulbul re-elected BCB president

BT Desk
Disclosure : 07 Oct 2025, 01:38 PM
Aminul Islam Bulbul - BCB President
Aminul Islam Bulbul - BCB President

The day-long election, which included physical votes and e-ballots, was held in a hotel in Dhaka. A total of 23 directors were elected and two government representatives were announced later to form the 25-member body. The election commission said 115 votes were cast out of the 156 eligible voters.

Aminul Islam has been re-elected as the BCB president at the board election on Monday. He will serve a four-year term, after having been in the same role for the last four months. Faruque Ahmed, the former president who Aminul had replaced in May, and Shakhawat Hossain, will be the vice-presidents.

The election process is two-fold. The voters, called councillors, elect 23 board directors in three separate categories. Aminul was one of ten directors elected from the first category, which includes only the divisions and districts of the country. The second category is the all-powerful Dhaka clubs who elect the majority of 12 directors. The third category includes representatives from different institutions, former cricketers, captains, and several other organisations.

The election commission announced the names of the board directors at 6.30pm, before the new 25-member body held an election among themselves to choose the president and two vice-presidents. Aminul, Faruque and Shakhawat were elected unopposed in these posts.

Three former captains are now in the board of directors, including Aminul, Faruque and Khaled Mashud. Former Bangladesh cricketer Abdur Razzak was nominated from the Khulna sub-category unopposed, becoming a board director. He had left his job as a senior men's selector recently.

While the voting was held without major incident on Monday, the election commission representatives made allegations of "intimidations". The build-up to the election, too, had several controversies. Tamim Iqbal, the former Bangladesh captain, had withdrawn from the race after complaining of interference, when BCB chief Aminul issued a letter asking for fresh nominations for the elections' first category. The letter was cleared by the country's courts the day before the elections.

After he was confirmed as the new president, Aminul said he wanted to continue in this role after "falling in love with Bangladesh cricket's development". When he was elected on May 30, Aminul had said that his short-term role would be like a "quick T20 innings".

Aminul played 13 Tests and 39 ODIs, and led the side during their maiden World Cup appearance in 1999.

Category 1 directors: Aminul Islam, Nazmul Abedeen Fahim, Ahsan Iqbal Chowdhury, Asif Akbar, Abdur Razzak, Julfiker Ali Khan, Mukhlesur Rahman, Hasanuzzaman, Rahat Shams, Shakhawat Hossain

Category 2 directors: Ishtiaque Sadeque, Adnan Rahman, Fayazur Rahman, Abul Bashar, Amzad Hossain, Shanian Taneem, Mukhsedul Kamal, Nazmul Islam, Faruque Ahmed, Manjur Alam, Mehrab Alam Chowdhury, Iftekhar Rahman

Category 3 director: Khaled Mashud

Government representative directors: M Ishfaq Ahsan, Yasir Mohammad Faisal Ashique

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