Bangladesh ban players' columns after Shakib row

Bangladesh cricket chiefs have ordered World Cup players not to write newspaper columns after a public spat involving skipper Shakib Al Hasan, local media said on Tuesday. Shakib, writing in a prominent Dhaka-based Bengali newspaper, had slammed former players for criticising his team after it slumped to its lowest one-day total of 58 against the West Indies last Friday.
"I feel really bad when I see former cricketers talk like common fans," Shakib had written the next day. Bangladesh Cricket Board chief executive Manzur Ahmed said the players had been told not to write columns and concentrate instead on their game. "We have asked the team management to stop players from writing columns," Ahmed told the New Age.