Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) suspended all types of crickets for an indefinite period due to the deadly contagious novel COVID-19 coronavirus that triggered a worldwide pandemic.

Mohammad Ashraful, the country’s youngest Test centurion, expressed his solidarity with the timely decision of the country’s cricket apex body.

Even though the first round of games of the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League (DPDCL), whose name after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, rolled onto the ground, the remaining of the games have been postponed sine die. Even the BCB directed its employees and officials to work from home unless they are recalled for any emergency.  

Regarding the matter, Mohammad Ashraful told The Independent that securing life first and then cricket.

“The devastation is going on across the world. Saving life first than everything,” said Mohammad Ashraful.

“If I don’t survive, there is no meaning of playing cricket. Saving our life first. Safety first,” Ashraful told this reporter.

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket South Africa (CSA), Cricket West Indies, Cricket New Zealand (CNZ) and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) also suspended all sorts of crickets amid the dreaded coronavirus pandemic.

The impact of the lift-threatening virus that spread from Wuhan, Hubei in China, put its brunt not only on national and international cricket but franchisee-cricket also. The cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) and Pakistan Super League (PSL) have been suspended.  

Ashraful, who played the first round of games of the DPDCL for Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, told his fans and country people to be careful about the newly-emerged virus.