BCB president Ali Asghar said that he was at a loss on Tuesday morning after he came to know about the cabinet decision in the newspapers.

"I can't understand why it happened. We submitted our proposal to the authority (the sports ministry) to name it as Cricket Bangladesh but surprisingly the cabinet approved another one," told Ashgar at the Board's corporate office in Gulshan yesterday.

Asghar has been fighting for the last four years against the approved name, which was incidentally proposed and preached by his predecessor Saber Hossain Chowdhury.

"We have worked for the last eight months and if I'm not wrong the ministry prepared a proposal in line with our guidelines. But I don't know what happened when our sports minister actually submitted it to the cabinet," said the BCB boss.

A shocked Ashgar, however, said that he was yet to communicate with the State Minister For Youth and Sports Fazlur Rahman, whose last minute twist has certainly underlined the fact that the cricket authority was not in the good books of the country's sports supremo.

"I am trying to reach our sports minister. I can say about the matter only after I talk with him," said Asghar.

Although it was a bitter pill to swallow for Asghar, the BNP lawmaker from Khulna however said that they have to obey a decision taken in the highest office of the country.

"But it would have been nice if we could name it as 'Cricket Bangladesh', which has now been endorsed by almost all the other cricket boards. Sri Lanka even changed their name recently. It is a modern concept and I think it would sound nice."

"I don't think there is any scope for us to try again because we have had enough experience with the lengthy (bureaucratic) process," he added.

Interestingly, Asghar led the hate campaign against the just approved 'Bangladesh Cricket Board' after the change of power terming the move as illegal.

His committee had time and again said that there is no scope to change the federation name by ordinance within the existing laws rather by getting a Jatiya Sangsad approval. The present board in an effort to end the dispute over its name had approved 'Cricket Bangladesh' in the Annual General Meeting on October 21 last year. They have even designed a new logo of the board.

But the irony is that the hated name, which is however very popular beyond the boundary of the cricket board, will be placed in the ongoing parliament session for baptism.