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Shakib Al Hasan says he will return home to face trial if safety assured, but Bangladesh rule out cricket comeback. Bangladesh have said former star cricketer Shakib Al Hasan had no prospect of returning to play after he joined a media event with ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, a convicted fugitive. Shakib joined the event by telephone in New Delhi on Wednesday, where Hasina addressed journalists, two years after she was forced from power following a deadly crackdown on student-led protests. Bangladesh Minister for Youth and Sports Aminul Haque said the government had previously taken a more open approach towards Shakib, who was a politician for Hasina’s former ruling Awami League party. Shakib, who is currently in Sri Lanka, was among dozens facing murder investigations for a deadly police crackdown on protesters that toppled Hasina’s government. “We had been looking at the matter with considerable flexibility and tolerance.
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After this, I do not think there is any room to think that way anymore,” Haque said in a statement. “Someone who has taken the stage with the autocrat no longer has any opportunity to return.” Shakib, 39, is Bangladesh’s most successful cricketer and one of the country’s best-known sporting figures.
