BCB president Ali Asghar and his advisors stressed the desire at different discussions terming it sine qua non to build a high performance team. But two recent incidents hardly reflected what they are trying to preach.

Firstly, the way they handled Mohammad Rafique's disciplinary issue and secondly, their love-hate relationship with the Dhaka clubs over holding of the Premier and the First Division Leagues this year.

The Board might feel relieved after having dealt with the Rafique issue through its four-member disciplinary committee. But many thought that the matter was handled in an amateurish way ever since the reported heated exchange of the left-arm spinner with Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar a day before the fifth and final one-day against Zimbabwe in Harare last month.

The team management wanted to set an example of how tough they were against indiscipline by putting Rafique on a plane for home the following morning. But all the hard talk melted no sooner had the team returned home a few days later.

When it was expected that the Board would find out where and how it all went wrong on that particular day (March 13), our wise cricket officials somehow managed to strike a compromise deal by not producing the full text of the disciplinary committee report.

The few lines of the report that the Board cared to make public were self-explanatory; it was clearly stated that Rafique was being punished without given the chance to defend himself.

If Rafique was guilty for violating the code of conduct then Bashar was no saint nor was the team management. The captain has a role to motivate his mates and if the whisperings are to be believed true then Bashar's conversation with Zimbabwean player Raymond Price in front of Rafique certainly had a detrimental effect if anything.

Besides, the hyperactive team management should have given a second thought before going nuts over Rafique ahead of the crucial one-day game considering that the country's leading wicket-taker in both forms had a stainless disciplinary record in his association with the national team for a decade.

If that was one case where the Board acted funny then their inability to deal with the pressing domestic events was exposed later on.

No doubt the Dhaka Leagues provide a platform from cricketers to launch careers and also earn money. But the most colourful domestic competition was put on hold this season when the Board failed to convince the leading clubs to enter the transfer market.

It's not new that the Dhaka clubs create a situation ahead of every inter-club transfer. Their grievance was two-fold this time. Firstly they blamed the weather and secondly they termed it taxing to feature in two Leagues in the same calendar year.

The Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM), which runs the Dhaka Leagues, conceded defeat to the clubs after eight abortive meetings and the Board watched from the sidelines.

It does not make sense how the CCDM, whose members are also part of the Board set-up, acted against the interests of the mother organisation.

If that is case than the Board should abolish the CCDM as its standing committee. Further-more, those who are holding advisory posts in the BCB from different clubs should lose the moral right to sit on Board meetings.

The launching of the first Corporate Cricket League (CCL) maybe a temporary solution to curb the influence of the Dhaka-based clubs, but it cannot be a substitute for the Dhaka Leagues that have over the years earned a rich history.

Few might also argue that the CCL is going to be a money-spinner event. However all that glitters is not gold. We can still recall the fate of the Office Cricket League that has now turned into a leisurely pursuit for past cricketers.

Maybe the beneficiaries of the CCL are nearly 200 players.

But there still remains another five hundred registered cricketers who are weeping at the thought no cricket and more importantly no money. Is that fair?