Raisuddin Ahmed

Raisuddin Ahmed (1939 – 20 January 2021) was a Bangladeshi cricketer and cricket administrator.[1]

Biography

Ahmed attended St Gregory High School, Notre Dame College, Dhaka, and Dhaka University. A batsman and leg-spin bowler, he played one first-class match for Dhaka University in the 1957-58 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.[2]

Ahmed was the general secretary of the Bangladesh Cricket Control Board from 1975 to 1981, when cricket in the newly-independent Bangladesh was beginning to take shape. He was one of the instigators of the Dhaka Premier League in 1975,[1] and during his term the first touring teams visited – the MCC in 1976-77 and 1978-79 – and Bangladesh became an Associate member of the International Cricket Conference. He later served as the Bangladesh Cricket Board's vice-president from 1991 to 2001, when Bangladesh won the 1997 ICC Trophy and gained Test status in 2000.[2]

He was a director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national carrier, and was influential in getting Biman to become Bangladesh cricket's first major sponsor.[3] He died in hospital in Dhaka after being admitted with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.[2]

References
  1. Alam, Ahmad Sazzadul. "Raisuddin Ahmed was one of a kind". New Age. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. Isam, Mohammad. "Raisuddin Ahmed, key administrator in Bangladesh's formative cricketing years, dies". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. "CONDOLENCE: Raisuddin Ahmed". Bangladesh Cricket Board. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
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