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Bangladeshi PM announces money, flats and cars for cricket team after Pakistan thrashing

Bangladesh bagged their first ever T20 victory over Pakistan by seven wickets and whitewashed Pakistan 3-0 in ODIs

Web Desk April 26, 2015

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Jubilant over her cricket team’s performance in the World Cup and home series against Pakistan, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced flats, cars and prize money for the Bangladesh cricket team.

Bangladesh bagged their first ever T20 victory over Pakistan by seven wickets on Friday and whitewashed Pakistan 3-0. The victory was preceded by the team’s most successful campaign in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand where they reached the quarter-finals.

Read: Bangladesh bag first ever T20 victory over Pakistan by seven wickets

Congratulating the team during a reception at the Ganabhaban, her official residence, Hasina announced additional rewards for the Bangladesh cricket team, according to NDTV.

“The team had received 10 million taka as winning bonus in the World Cup and 30 million taka more from ICC. Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and company would receive another 12.3 million taka from the BCB,” she said.

Read: PCB chairman disappointed by the ODI whitewash

“The Bangladesh team will get another 10 million taka for their inspiring performance in the World Cup and another 10 million taka for the limited-overs series sweep against Pakistan,” she added.

Further, Bangladesh’s prime minister said the government would also provide cars and accommodation to the national team players.

Read: Rahat Ali out of Bangladesh Tests

On the field, a new-look Pakistan team suffered their worst-ever 3-0 whitewash in the one-day series — their first against Bangladesh.

COMMENTS (28)

Max | 8 years ago | Reply @Ch. Allah Daad: @Adnan Siddiqi: Stop fellating each other and get a room you two ;)

Grace | 8 years ago | Reply @bangladeshi: Bangladesh played better and they deserved to win. Most Pakistanis understand the nature of sports - someone has to win and someone has to lose and clearly the better team won. Pakistan has to work on improving its team and hopefully we'll do better next time.I doubt you are Bangladeshi but really Indian. That would explain why you don't know that Bangladesh has accepted all of the Biharis who live there are Bangladeshi citizens. Most of them have never seen Pakistan and are closer to Bangladesh geographically and culturally. As for Kashmir, the majority population continue to support Pakistan which is why India refuses to allow people to hold a referendum there as mandated by the United Nations. Kashmiris and volunteers will always go to help free Muslims suffering there and it is not the responsibility of Pak alone.

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bangladeshi | 8 years ago | Reply @usman786: "That’s why (she) hanged our Islamic supporters. Maybe she was given special privilege in 70s" If you were so concerned about Pakistani "supporters", why doesn't Pakistan take back about one million Pakistani nations still stuck in Bangladesh for over four decades. These were your collaborators, after all. What sort of loyalties can anyone expect from a failed state which also abandons its dead soldiers and refuses to take back their dead bodies lying in the Kashmir bodies? You have always disowned your own "supporters" (aka killers) if it serves your purpose.

Bangabandhu | 8 years ago | Reply @usman786: that's a comment of gutter-level sickness. You are just proving that the hatred is fully deserved.

khan420 | 8 years ago | Reply This is unfair ! They need to reward the Pakistan Cricket Board too for sending a bunch of amateurs to play against Bangladesh. Many other cricket teams will re-write record books while playing against Pakistan in near future, thanks to PCB and its politically motivated bureaucracy.

Sheikh Waleed Adhab | 8 years ago | Reply @Motiwala: Women who are less than generously endowed but knockouts in all the other departments.

observer | 8 years ago | Reply @Sunil: "I wish that money was used for feeding millions of poor who can’t afford a single meal and kids who are suffocatingly working to meet both ends! Where are the humans???" I agree with you. Only in the Indian subcontinent do the governments give these ostentatious and obscene payouts from taxpayer money to the sports people. It is a damn shame to waste tax money like this when millions of people go hungry every day.

Motiwala | 8 years ago | Reply Strange,...very strange woman. Bangladeshis live on two cups of rice a day, one bad harvest away from famine,...and this woman is giving cars, money and 'flats"? What the heck are flats?

Zq | 8 years ago | Reply It is great that the Bangsli team has done well but would'nt it make more sense to utilize the money for feeding the poor people instead of handing out to the team that is already well off..or is it to show off by Hasina how much she hates Pakistan!!!!

sane voice | 8 years ago | Reply @ch Allah daad ..... the state of affair of cricket ia a tiny example of the larger pictyre which is our country alao in shambles thanx to super amazing head of both something sharif

usman786 | 8 years ago | Reply She has special grudge for Pakistan. That's why hanged our Islamic supporters. Maybe she was given special privilege in 70s

BABA | 8 years ago | Reply @Adnan Siddiqi: and how is that a good thing ??? Do only elites have the right to dream about becoming PM

Pankaj | 8 years ago | Reply Congrates BD, you have outpaced Pakistan in almost every field one by one.

imran | 8 years ago | Reply what a haseena : )

a&a | 8 years ago | Reply Special Presidential award for 35 punctures......

Sunil | 8 years ago | Reply I wish that money was used for feeding millions of poor who can't afford a single meal and kids who are suffocatingly working to meet both ends! Where are the humans???

Adnan Siddiqi | 8 years ago | Reply @Ch. Allah Daad: Very important observations brother. I would like to add one more: The more cricket in Pakistan regresses, the more it will eschew the desire by any captain to harbor any ambition of becoming the Prime Minister of the country.

Mulana Diesel | 8 years ago | Reply @Ali: very true. indeed she carries a lot of hate for Pakistanis

abc | 8 years ago | Reply Our govt must also give them some benefits as there conditions might approve.

Ch. Allah Daad | 8 years ago | Reply Soon we will realize that Pakistan's defeats are blessings in disguise. 1. We have got rid of Afridi cult. 2. In future no match fixer will approach our cricketers. 3. Imran will stop using stupid cricket terms.

Babbarsher Khan | 8 years ago | Reply It is unadulterated stupidity wrapped in pseudo nationalism! It's just a game, either you lose or you win, do not bring dirty politics into it. We have been demonstrating jingoism in the past, it is sorry to see Bangladesh following our stupidity.

Sheikh Waleed Adhab | 8 years ago | Reply Typical stunt of Pakistan's players; after losing to India, they then show they are losing to everyone else to deflect from the utter humiliation of losing to India in the first place.

A J Khan | 8 years ago | Reply Xenophobia of PM Bangladesh is becoming ailment of the country.

Reddy | 8 years ago | Reply Maybe Pakistan can take back one car, one flat and one lakh from its players.

Timorlane | 8 years ago | Reply They must be billionaires by the end of the test series

Ihsan | 8 years ago | Reply our government needs to announce something for our team poor performance too.

Ali | 8 years ago | Reply Bangladesh played very well and deserve all these rewards. But this lady seems to derive special pleasure from the loss of Pakistani team; may be she is preserving and nurturing the bitterness of past history.

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply Our cricketers get much more.........even when they lose.

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