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Rain cools excitement on eve of decider
• Ali Shahriyar Bappa from
Chittagong
The cricket-mad Bangladesh fans
and the entire cricketing fraternity
might be waiting with bated breath
for the third and final ODI between
the Tigers and the visiting England
team but the threat of rain is refusing
to go away even a day before
the series decider.
It rained heavily in Chittagong
for the most parts of yesterday so
the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium
fans will be lucky if they get to
witness a full 50-over affair today.
Keeping the inclement weather
in mind, the toss will be extremely
vital if the match does go ahead.
And when it does, all sparks will
fly considering the much-talked
about incidents following the second
ODI in Mirpur on Sunday.
The Tigers lost the first match before
winning the second one. At one
stage in the first game, Bangladesh
were in the driving seat, needing
only 39 runs from 52 balls with six
wickets in hand. But the home side
lost their nerve and surprisingly lost
the match from a winning position.
In the second game, the Tigers
fought back and sealed a 34-run
win. But the outcome of the game
paled in comparison to the controversies
which took place during
and after the match.
Bangladesh fielders celebrated
passionately after getting the wicket
of England captain Jos Buttler during
their run-chase. Buttler reacted
angrily and exchanged a few words
with the Bangladesh players after
being adjudged leg before wicket.
In the aftermath of the incident,
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe bin
Mortaza and Sabbir Rahman were
both fined 20 percent of their
match fee while Buttler only received
an official reprimand.
At the end of the match and
during the hand-shake formalities,
there was a dispute between Ben
Stokes and Tamim Iqbal that created
a storm on social media. A video
shows Tamim approaching Jonny
Bairstow to shake hands but the
latter apparently shoulder-charged
the former, thus paving the way
for the social media storm. Stokes
then entered the scene, exchanging
a few heated words with Tamim.
All these incidents will no doubt
heat up the competition between
bat and ball.
Bangladesh have established
themselves as a strong competitor,
especially in the ODI format, in the
last two years or so, winning six
consecutive series on home soil.
They have defeated several big
teams including Pakistan, India
and South Africa among others.
Ever since reaching the 2015
World Cup quarter-finals, Bangladesh
have played 17 ODIs at home,
including the first two matches
against England. Among them,
Bangladesh won 13 losing the other
four. If the Tigers win the final ODI
against England today, then they
will have secured their seventh
successive series win on home turf
in the last two years.
England on the other hand have
emerged as one of the best ODI
sides since their stunning defeat to
Bangladesh during the 2015 World
Cup down under. Since then, they
have re-invented themselves as
one of the most entertaining sides
in world cricket through their aggressive
and positive brand.
Players like Jason Roy, Buttler,
Alex Hales, Eoin Morgan and Joe
Root made their name playing this
particular brand of cricket, inspiring
England to several successes in
the last 18 months. Although Morgan,
Hales and Root were not present
for the ODIs, England still have
plenty of firepower in their squad
to achieve the series victory.
So far Bangladesh have played
16 completed ODIs at ZACS in the
last 10 years. Among them, the Tigers
won 10 and lost six.
No major changes are expected
in the Bangladesh playing XI while
England will be unchanged as well.
As far as records are concerned,
local lad Tamim is on verge of joining
the 5000-run club in ODIs. He
is just 38 runs shy of becoming the
first Bangladesh batsman to do so. •
Bangladeshi worker
takes Fifa to court
People of Hindu community celebrate sindoor (vermilion) ritual at Kalabagan in Dhaka on the occasion of Bijoya Dashami
yesterday
SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN
6 USA Nobel laureates are immigrants
• Tribune Desk
A report on The Hill quotes American
Nobel laureate Sir J. Fraser
Stoddart: “I think the resounding
message that should go out all
around the world is that science
is global. United States should be
welcoming people from all over the
world, including the Middle East.”
Fraser, who is Scottish by birth,
became a US citizen in 2011. He is
one of three laureates in chemistry.
Fraser was also quoted to praise
America for its “openness” which
makes it possible for the top scientists
to come together. He believes
the scientific establishment will
remain strong as long as they don’t
“turn back on immigration.”
He had won the prize in chemistry
with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and
Bernard Feringa, French and Dutch
researchers-- for the design and
synthesis of molecular machines.
Another America Nobel laureate
Duncan Haldane called the immigration
process as a “bureaucratic
nightmare for many people” in an
interview with The Hill.
Duncan is an English Princeton
University researcher and won the
prize for physics. He shares this
award with two other British immigrants
David Thouless of Yale
University and Michael Kosterlitz of
Brown University. The other winners
are British immigrant Oliver Hart of
Harvard University and Finnish immigrant
Bengt Holmström of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology who
both won the prize for Economics. •
• Tribune Desk
Migrant workers have been lied to
about their pay, forced to live in
squalor, and had to buy their own
food as they labored day and night
to construct opulent stadiums for
the World Cup in Qatar
The Netherlands Trade Union
Federation (FNV) is taking Fifa to a
Swiss court on behalf of a migrant
worker. Nadim Sharaful Alam, 31, a
Bangladeshi migrant.
The FNV sent a letter to Fifa on
Sunday night and asked it to accept
responsibility for the mistreatment
and pay damages. If Fifa does not
comply with the demand, the case
will be taken to a court in Zurich.
The lawsuit states that Nadim
was harassed and exploited during
his employment tenure in Qatar.
The lawsuit claims that he was subject
to terrible working conditions
for 18 months. There was intensive
manual labour involved, i.e. loading
and unloading from ships.
Nadim said that he was deported
unceremoniously after he was paid
a pittance that did not even cover
the sum he paid to be recruited.
Nadim asks for $11,500 in compensation
for a deal where he paid
$4000 to a middleman. This is the
first instance of the football governing
body being taken to a court.
Amnesty International released
a report that exposed the rampant
exploitation in the construction of
Khalifa International Stadium. It
detailed how migrant workers from
India, Bangladesh, and Nepal were
deceived about their salaries and
forced to house in cramped conditions.
In addition, the workers
went unpaid for months and had to
pay for their own food.
Workers were also unable to contact
their embassies for help since
their passports were confiscated.
Liesbeth Zegveld, a lawyer for
FNV said: “Fifa should take responsibility
for the irregularities.
They could have demanded that
the construction process be fair
and unscrupulous.”
“The lawsuit does not say that
Fifa should bring about social change
everywhere, but that projects endorsed
by Fifa should be transparent
and humane,” she added.
If the lawsuit is penultimately
taken to court if Fifa does not
respond, it may prove to be disastrous.
There are thousands of
workers who have shared and still
share the fate of Khalid. Thousands
of litigations might jeopardise the
football governing body in the future,
The Guardian reports.
Qatar invested $200bn and employed
hundreds of thousands of
migrant workers in preparation for
the 2022 Fifa World Cup. •
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