Smoking in the dressing room: Sujan may face punishment

Khulna Tigers coach Khaled Mahmud Sujan created a controversy in the last match of the group stage of the ninth season of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). His team fought against Fortune Barisal in the match.

Khulna was batting in response to Barisal's 170 runs in Mirpur that day. 4 runs were needed from 4 balls to win. At that time, the television camera on the field caught a scene from Khulna's dressing room.

Khulna head coach and BCB director Khaled Mahmud Sujan can be seen smoking openly there. Although at that time his focus was on the match. In the end Khulna won the match.

The referee of the last match of the first phase of BPL was former cricketer Debbrat Pal. Devabrata, however, declined to comment on the matter. However, he said, he saw the footage on his mobile phone after returning from Sher Bangla Stadium after the game. Devabrata did not want to comment immediately on this matter. Simply put, smoking in the dressing room is certainly against the cricketing spirit.

Khaled Mahmud can be punished in this case? When asked about the match referee Debbrat Pal, "I have only seen the footage. I cannot comment on this right now.
Where it can be seen that Khulna's head coach Khaled Mahmud Sujan is watching the match and smoking. Such incidents are not new in BPL. Afghanistan's batsman Mohammad Shehzad openly smoked inside the field in the last tournament.

Such behavior was outside the code of conduct of cricket and he was also punished by service. Earlier, fans witnessed a power outage at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla Stadium. The game is stopped for about 10 minutes when the whole stadium goes dark.