At one time it was thought that Liton Das would be the next captain of Bangladesh. Tamim replaced Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan to lead the national team. Won the series against India at home. He led the team in Afghanistan series.
Success also came from his hand. Lytton has led 7 ODIs and won 3 of them. On the other hand, Shanto led Bangladesh in 6 matches. Won in 1. Liton led Bangladesh in one Test. Won it. Shanta led in 2. Victory in one, defeat in the other.
All in all, it was being taken for a while, Shakib Al Hasan is going to take the leadership of the Bangladesh team on the shoulders of Liton Das. But suddenly the trend changed.
Prior to the World Cup, Lytton was dropped for the Asia Cup, the home series against New Zealand and new World Cup duties. Nazmul Hossain Shanto was chosen as Shakib Al Hasan’s assistant.
In the absence of Shakib in the domestic series against New Zealand before the World Cup, Shantay captained as acting captain. Shanto led the team in two matches in Shakib’s absence in the World Cup as well. He also led the New Zealand series after the World Cup.
This time when Shakib Al Hasan decided not to captain, then BCB announced Shanto as the captain for the next one year in three formats. After this announcement came on Monday, there is discussion and criticism in favor and against. However, no one has much question about getting quiet leadership.
Liton Das came to speak at the press conference after a huge 73-run win against Chittagong Challengers at Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong today.
It was there that he was questioned about making Shanto the captain. It was asked, once you were in the race to become the captain. But suddenly you were removed and Shanto was made the captain. Why are you not made captain? Litton replied, ‘I don’t know anything about it. I did not decide the captain myself. You can ask this question to someone on the board.’
Have you talked to Shanta about this or congratulated him? Liton’s wooden reply, ‘No, I didn’t talk, I didn’t even congratulate.’ Then another question about captaincy was asked to Lytton. At this time he expressed his annoyance and said, ‘Look, that is now the past. The captain has already announced. What is the point of saying these things now? Now I am in BPL. I want to stay with BPL.’
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