Bangladesh Cricket Board at last made necessary amendment to their constitution that paved ways to form the Regional Cricket Association.

BCB president Nazmul Hasan promised to form the RCA since getting elected for the first time in 2013 but it took him nine long years to take necessary steps to start activities of RCA.

Nazmul promised to make RCA after being elected in the board for the second time in 2017 but failed to do so as they failed to make necessary changes in their constitution that can put RCA in place.

’We don’t have any barrier to form the RCA from now onwards. Till date we have controlled everything from Dhaka while we were going to different divisions from Dhaka and honestly speaking we had very little control at the district level but now after RCA activities starts we hope that we can do much better in this regard( as we will be able to take cricket to grass root level),’’ Nazmul Hasan told reporters after the AGM on Tuesday.

‘’We hope that before our next board meeting we can start the activities of RCA,’’ he said.

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The necessary amendments were approved by the board councilors, who got voting rights in the election, during the Annual General Meeting of the board at the city hotel.

RCA was supposed to be a major step in decentralization of cricket at an administrative level and grassroots to have a significant impact on the overall growth of the sport. Eddie Barlow first introduced the concept when he was Bangladesh's coach in 1999-2000 in order to take cricket forward in the country.

He helped formulate and execute plans with which the country achieved official Test status. He also pushed for the formation of the RCA then, but despite that, it hasn't seen the light of day even after all these years. In the draft, there was a bid to have seven associations for each region to be equipped with the necessary infrastructure to run independently.

Although the idea was floated first in 2000, no meaningful progress was made until BCB councilors decided to approve the amendment required in their constitution so that RCA can start working.

The directors and councilors of- Dhaka, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Chattogram, Khulna, Rangpur, and Barisal- divisions will be included in the committee of seven RCA while the Mymensingh division will be included as part of Dhaka RCA’s body.

However, question remains whether the RCA can work independently or not considering the fact BCB will form the committee of the RCA’s body that will have 11 members in some divisions and seven members in other relatively small TV division.

‘’The councilors during the AGM asked us (board) to form the committee so the initial guideline will be provided by BCB,’’ he said.

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