Former Bangladesh national team captain Tamim Iqbal has said that there was no doubt he would have won if he had contested in the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) elections. Speaking at a press conference organized by the Club Organizers Association at the Lakeshore Hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday (October 8), Tamim said:
“If I had run in the election, I would have definitely won. Because I know the people who stand by me, and the cricket fraternity knows that too.”
Tamim, along with 16 others, withdrew his candidacy from this year’s BCB election, citing government interference and a lack of transparency in the process. They made the decision in protest after the councilorships of 15 clubs, who had qualified through the third-division selection process, were suspended. Although the councilorships were later reinstated, Tamim did not return to the election race.
On Monday (October 6), a day before the election, Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan wrote on social media that “many could have become BCB directors if they had just been patient.”
When asked if he regretted missing the “train” of the election due to a lack of patience, Tamim replied:
“I’m sure you all have some idea about me. Do you really think—with or without those 15 clubs—if I had contested, no one would have voted for me? Catching a bus or not was never an issue for me. What mattered most to me was having a transparent election. That was my stand.”
