ahmed sajjadul alam bobby become there, simply as he has been all through bangladesh’s adventure, working in everything from logistics, tournament establishing and marketing for the board because 1978. “looking that recreation turned into a privilege,” he says. “beating england in an away venue intended a lot.”
bobby, who's now a board director, was born inside the state’s capital, dhaka, in 1959, whilst it became nevertheless part of east pakistan. aged he attended his first take a look at, between england and pakistan within the town. yet hosting checks couldn't disguise east pakistan’s injurious remedy by way of west pakistan; east pakistan had half pakistan’s population but acquired one-0.33 of presidency spending. “two hundred years of colonisation by the british have been followed by way of 25 years of brutal and repressive rule via the pakistanis,” bobby says.
