On April 16, the sports reporters had to leave the field during the first day of the second Test between Bangladesh and visiting Australia following police atrocities, until then an unforeseen event for sporting fans across the country.

Thankfully bruised and battered reporters returned to the ground on Saturday after a five day break to do their own business, no doubt their most coveted one, but understandably "cricket" was not only the issue to be discussed this time around on the eve of first one-day international of the three-match series.

Many were yet to recover from the nightmare episode, which has tarnished our image in the cricket world. And everyone is eagerly looking forward to seeing the punishment of the culprits.

Usually there is a lot of enthusiasm in and around the stadium when the national squad is practicing before a match, but this was not the case yesterday.

Rather, the atmosphere was gloomy as the incident was still fresh in everybody's mind.

But with the return of the reporters the national cricketers expressed their happiness. Habibul Bashar's men gave the journalists a hearty welcome and remarked that they could not still believe how this kind of brutality took place at the cricket ground.

Due to the code of conduct no one wanted to make comments on record about the incident but skipper Bashar spoke on the issue.

" It is nice to see you people again here because you are very much part of the game. What happened was totally unthinkable for us. We have never seen such an ugly scene in the cricket field," said Bashar expressing his utter surprise over the police act of violence on the journalists.

"I am not sure whether the incident played a role in our performance in the second Test but it was an issue that we have discussed in the last few days. It was not easy for a human being to forget such a brutal episode that had happened right in front of him," he said.