Out or not out. Let’s look again from a different angle. To the naked eye, Asif Hasan’s turned ball misses the leg stump. But the umpire is adamant about his decision. Criticism continues about bad umpiring in Dhaka Premier League.

In the eighth round of the match between Mohammedan-City Club, the cricketers got angry on the field due to multiple decisions by the umpire. Questions have also been raised about Mehdi Hasan Miraj’s LBW. Not only this match, but teams like Mohammedan-Rupganj have also been victims of several controversial decisions of the umpires in the current DPL. Controversy and Dhaka Premier League are built on the same formula. A wrong decision by the umpire changes the fate of the match. Let’s take Naeem Sheikh’s run out in the high-voltage match of Rupganj-Abahani on April 7.

After receiving the life given by the umpires, Naeem later scored 76 runs to build the foundation of Abahani’s victory. Again in that match, Sabbir Rahman’s strange out increased the doubt. Because in both cases the opportunity was given to Abahani. In domestic cricket, bias umpiring comes first in Abahani Club’s name. But are the field umpires making such wrong decisions repeatedly due to some invisible pressure from their bosses? Such is the question in the minds of cricketers. In 2021, Shakib showed the tyranny of the board worth thousands of crores by kicking a stamp to protest the controversial decision of the umpire. Then the BCB officials talked about revamping domestic cricket by adding a third umpire. But that promise was ultimately not fulfilled.