Cricket-Shakib's bowling suspension stays in place after failed reassessment


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  • Sunday, 12 Jan 2025

FILE PHOTO: Cricket - ICC Cricket World Cup - Bangladesh v India - Edgbaston, Birmingham, Britain - July 2, 2019 Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan takes the catch to dismiss India's MS Dhoni Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Boyers/File Photo

(Reuters) - Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan's suspension from bowling in all competitions organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will remain in place after he failed an independent re-assessment, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Saturday.

Shakib failed the independent re-assessment test conducted at the Sri Ramachandra Centre for Sports Science in Chennai, India last month.

"While Shakib is currently unable to bowl, he is eligible to continue playing as a batsman in all forms of domestic and international cricket," the BCB said in a statement.

Bangladesh are free to pick the 37-year-old as a specialist batter for the Champions Trophy, with the eight-team competition kicking off on Feb. 19 in Karachi.

The former Bangladesh skipper was suspended from bowling in December, after initial independent assessment at the testing centre of Loughborough University in the UK, for exceeding the maximum permitted elbow extension of 15 degrees.

His action was scrutinised by on-field umpires in his one-off appearance for Surrey in September - his first appearance in the County Championship since the 2010-11 season.

In 2019, he received a two-year ban from playing after the International Cricket Council found he had breached its anti-corruption code.

(Reporting by Shifa Jahan in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis)

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