Published: Mar 18, 2015, 07:38 PM (IST)
Edited: Mar 19, 2015, 12:18 AM (IST)
A Bangladeshi website, newsbd7.com has come up with a news that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina has ordered Mashrafe Mortaza’s team to lose Thursday’s ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 quarter-final against India. READ: India must guard against complacency moving ahead in ICC Cricket World Cup 2015
According to the website Hasina wants to please her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, that is why she wants Bangladesh to lose this crucial match. Though there is no authenticity of this news and according to experts, this is a politically motivated report, which has been published to take political advantage by the rival groups of Hasina. READ: IND vs BAN, ICC World Cup 2015 Quarter-final : Shakib offered repetitive questions
Bangladesh is currently experiencing a politically unstable situation. ‘Bandhs’ and ‘Road-Blocks’ are quite common affairs over there at this moment. But thanks to some excellent showing by the Bangladesh team in the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, the common mass of the nation is finally having some ‘Happy Moments’. The Political parties are desperate to take the advantage of this situation by using the ‘cricket sentiment’ of the public and that is the main reason why these kinds of news are keep coming up in Bangladesh media. READ: Shakib Al Hasan treating ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 quarter-final vs India as ‘just another game’
