Former captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team, as well as the country's first Test centurion, Aminul Islam Bulbul, was declared the new president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Friday.
Bulbul was announced as the 16th president of BCB at a meeting of the BCB board of directors on Friday afternoon.
Nazmul Abedeen Fahim and Fahim Sinha were elected as senior vice president and vice president respectively.
BCB Director Iftekhar Rahman Mithu made this announcement at a press conference after the BCB directors' meeting on Friday evening.
Earlier, the National Sports Council (NSC) appointed Bulbul as a BCB director on Friday afternoon after cancelling Faruque Ahmed's nomination after eight directors submitted a no-confidence letter against Faruque Ahmed on Thursday (29 May).
Later, BCB's board of directors elected Aminul Islam as the president in a board meeting on Friday evening.
Bulbul represented Bangladesh in 13 Tests and 39 ODIs and became the first Bangladeshi to score a Test century in the country's inaugural Test against India.
After retiring from international cricket in 2002, Bulbul served the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in various capacities over the past decade.
He also served as the development manager for ICC's Asia region before joining the BCB.
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