All but three elected unopposed

The Nazmul Hasan led panel is seemingly heading towards victory in the upcoming Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) elections since out of the 25 director posts available only three will be contested for after the election commission announced the list of final candidates, yesterday.

On the same day, which was the deadline for nomination withdrawal, only Dhaka Division candidate Junaid Hossain removed himself from the race. However, there will still be competition for the two Dhaka Division posts as well as the one for Barisal Division, all of which are category-1.

Naimur Rahman (Manikganj), Syed Ashfakul Islam (Kishorganj), Shahinul Islam (Norsingdi) and Tanvir Ahmed Tito (Narayanganj) will vie for the Dhaka Division posts while MA Awal Chowdhury Bulu will be up against Alamgir Khan for the solitary Barisal Division post.

The seven uncontested directors from category-1 are: Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel ( Sylhet), Akram Khan, AJM Nasir Uddin (Chittagong), Kazi Inam Ahmed, Sheikh Sohel (Khulna), Saiful Alam (Rajshahi) and Anwarul Islam (Rangpur).

Similarly, Nazmul Hassan, Afzalur Rahman Sinha, Gazi Golam Mortuza, Hanif Bhuiya, Ismail Haider Mallick, Jalal Younus, Lokman Hossain, Mahbubul Anam, Manzur Kader, Najib Ahmed, Showkat Aziz, and Tanjil Chowdhury have had their category-2 positions confirmed while Khaled Mahmud will win category-3.

Enayet Hossain Siraj and Ahmed Sajjadul Alam were the nominated directors from the NSC quota.

The election for the three posts will take place on October 31 at the Sher-e-Bangla National stadium.