After making his international debut at the Asia Cup
last week, Bangladeshi quick Tanzim Hasan was forced to apologise to the BCB
for a number of inflammatory Facebook posts that had previously appeared. The
chair of the BCB cricket operations, Jalal Yunus, stated that Tanzim was sorry
for his posts and accepted full responsibility for them. Some of the posts date
back to 2014.
Soon after his ODI debut against India on September
15, when he got up wickets in a Bangladesh victory, at least four posts—now
deleted—became widely popular.
In a Facebook post from September 2022, he wrote in
Bangla: “A working woman will not allow her husband or children to have
their way with her; she loses her charm, destroys her family, her purdah, and
the society.”
In 2014, when he was 11 or so, Tanzim had shared a
post about not celebrating Bangladesh’s Victory Day, which is on December 16.
Yunus, who is also a BCB director, said that he spoke
to Tanzim about the matter on Monday.
“The cricket operations committee spoke to Tanzim
Sakib on behalf of the Bangladesh Cricket Board,” Yunus said at a press
conference at the Shere Bangla National Stadium on Tuesday. “The media
committee also got in touch with him. We informed Tanzim about the discussions
surrounding his Facebook posts. He said that he didn’t write those posts to
hurt anyone. He wrote it for himself, not targeting anyone. If those posts have
hurt anyone’s feelings, he said he was sorry.
“He said that the posts he has made about women,
he takes full responsibility. He said that he is not a misogynist. We have
warned him that if he posts something on Facebook in the future, the BCB will
monitor him.
“We are keeping an eye on this area [his
mindset]. We will monitor him. His family is concerned too. They didn’t expect
such a situation. They are also sorry. We have given him a warning because he
is a young player, and a World Cup is ahead. If he does something like this
again, we will take action against him. If there’s a [psychological] problem,
we will provide support.”