Captain Najmul Hossain Shanto said his team’s maiden Test win against Pakistan on Sunday, in which all-rounder Shakib took three second-innings wickets, was a tribute to the hundreds killed during protests that forced former premier Sheikh Hasina from power.
Bangladesh endured weeks of student-led protests that resulted in Hasina fleeing to India by helicopter on August 5, ending 15 years of autocratic rule.
Shakib, 37, who lost his job as a lawmaker for Hasina’s Awami League party when parliament was dissolved, is “a big asset of our country,” said Shanto in a post on Facebook late Monday.
“He’s been raising the name of Bangladesh in the world for 17 long years,” Shanto said.
Rafiqul Islam, the father of one of the hundreds killed during the civil unrest, filed a murder case against Shakib and 155 others in Dhaka on Thursday. Hasina’s government was accused of widespread abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killing of political opponents. Hasina, former ministers and other ex-lawmakers are among those also accused.
Shakib has not spoken publicly about the case, but his teammates said they were offering him support. “Such a case against Shakib bhai (brother) is unexpected,” Shanto added. “In the new Bangladesh, we all want to see something new. I hope all the darkness will pass off and new light will come.”
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