{"id":30455,"date":"2025-10-08T16:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/?p=30455"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:20:57","slug":"rubaba-dowla-joins-bcb-board-after-late-night-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/?p=30455","title":{"rendered":"Rubaba Dowla joins BCB board after late-night change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports Desk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corporate leader and sports organizer Rubaba Dowla has been drafted into the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), replacing Isfak Ahsan, whose nomination was quietly withdrawn hours after Monday\u2019s board election, reports UNB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Sports Council (NSC), which appoints two directors to the 25-member BCB board, made the switch overnight after questions surfaced about Isfak\u2019s political background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had previously sought the Awami League\u2019s nomination for a parliamentary seat in Chandpur and later contested as an independent. Once photos of him attending party events began circulating online, the criticism was swift \u2014 and by early Tuesday, his name was off the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rubaba, currently the Country Director for Oracle Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, she has built a reputation as one of the country\u2019s leading corporate figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before joining Oracle, she spent over a decade at Grameenphone, where she was a familiar face in cricket circles during the company\u2019s long sponsorship of the national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has also been active in sports beyond cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 2009 to 2015, she served as President of the Bangladesh Badminton Federation, and she sits on the board of Special Olympics Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk Corporate leader and sports organizer Rubaba Dowla has been drafted into the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), replacing Isfak Ahsan, whose nomination was quietly withdrawn hours after Monday\u2019s board election, reports UNB. The National Sports Council (NSC), which appoints two directors to the 25-member BCB board, made the switch overnight after questions surfaced about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rubaba Dowla joins BCB board after late-night change - The Bangladesh Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/?p=30455\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rubaba Dowla joins BCB board after late-night change - The Bangladesh Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sports Desk Corporate leader and sports organizer Rubaba Dowla has been drafted into the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), replacing Isfak Ahsan, whose nomination was quietly withdrawn hours after Monday\u2019s board election, reports UNB. 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