The Bangladesh Cricket Board will hold its next round of elections on 7 June, the board’s election commission confirmed at the weekend. Under the constitution, 23 of the 25 directors are chosen by the BCB’s 171 councillors; once that slate is in place, the directors pick one of their own to serve as president for the 2026-30 cycle.
Former national captain Tamim Iqbal, installed by the government in April to run an ad-hoc committee, remains in the frame. As a councillor he can oversee proceedings on polling day, yet he must also decide whether to throw his name into the presidential ring. Back in April he told reporters, “My job for now is to keep things steady and make sure the members get a fair vote.” Those words still stand.
The last elections, in October 2025, ended in a landslide for another ex-captain, Aminul Islam. A subsequent government-led inquiry, however, pointed to what the sports ministry called “serious abuse of power”, prompting the board’s dissolution and the appointment of the current interim set-up. Aminul is understood to be in Australia and, according to BCB sources, has not filed nomination papers this time. Faruque Ahmed, himself a former board chief and once an ally of Aminul, is also sitting this one out.
A draft voters’ list went up on the BCB website on Sunday; a final, cleaned-up version is expected later this week. Voting will again be split into three familiar categories:
• Ten directors from the country’s seven divisions and 64 districts.
• Twelve directors from Dhaka-based clubs.
• One director from a mixed pool of past national players, captains, security-service nominees and National Sports Council appointees.
The remaining two seats are filled directly by the government, a clause that regularly sparks debate but has survived every rewrite of the board’s statutes.
Cricket analyst Md Khaled Mahmud believes the low number of incumbents contesting could freshen things up. “If only four or five of the old guard stand, the new board may find it easier to agree on priorities,” he said. “Domestic structures, player payments, stadium upgrades – all of that has been stuck in first gear for 18 months.”
Still, the first order of business is simply getting through 7 June without more upheaval. As Tamim reminded journalists last week, “The game has to come before the politics.”
