The Victory Day cricket match between Shaheed Jewel XI and Shaheed Mushtaque XI will take place at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium in the Victory Day on Sunday, 16 December. The 40-overs a side game is scheduled to start at 10am.

TEAMS

SHAHEED JEWEL XI: Imrul Kayes, Zunaed Siddique, Shahriar Nafees, Nazim Uddin, Mohammad Ashraful, Marshall Ayub, Md Mithun, Md Elias, Musharraf Hossain, Al Amin, Robiul Islam, Shahadat Hossain, Ziaur Rahman

Manager: Hasibul Hossain

Coach: Wahidul Gani

SHAHEED MUSHTAQUE XI: Liton Kumer Das, Anamul Haque, Muminul Hoque, Asif Ahmed, Soumya Sarker, Mahmudul Hasan, Nazmul Hossain Opu, Taskin Ahmed, Alauddin Babu, Sanjamul Islam, Dewan Sabbir, Myshekur Rahman, Nurul Hasan

Manager: Hasanuzzaman

Coach: Golam Faruque Chowdhury

The traditional Victory Day cricket match was first organized in 1972 in memory of Liberation War martyrs Shaheed Abdul Halim Chowdhury Jewel and Shaheed Mushtaque Ahmed.  

Brief profile of Shaheed Abdul Halim Chowdhury Jewel: Shaheed Jewel was an attacking right-handed opening batsman forAzad Boys Club who had earned quite a reputation for his attractive horizontal bat shots. His consistent batting form was taking him closer to his dream of earning a Test cap when the War of Liberation broke out in 1971. He was one of the first active cricketers of erstwhile East Pakistan to take up arms and join the fight for freedom. After a heroic nine months in the battlefields he was captured by the Pakistan army towards the end of the War and was killed days before Bangladesh became independent.

Brief profile of Shaheed Mushtaque Ahmed: A devout cricket organizer Shaheed Mushtaque was an inspirational official of Azad Boys Club. He dedicated his life to the betterment of his club and its cricket aspirations. On the blood-splattered night of March 25, 1971 Mushtaque was shot dead by the Pakistan army near his beloved Azad Boys Club which was at that time situated in Dhaka’s Gulistan.