Bangladesh bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib apologizes after HUGE uproar over his sexist remarks

The misogynistic nature of Tanzim Hasan Sakib's social media statements led to controversy on Monday, drawing attention to the Bangladeshi bowler. Just a few days after his notable worldwide debut, these posts criticising working women caused outrage. Bangladesh failed to prevail in the Asia Cup 2023, but in their last match against India, he played a key role as he dismissed Rohit Sharma and helped his team to a needless win against India. 

3 things you need to know 

•  Tanzim Hasan Sakib has only played one match for Bangladesh so far and took 2 wickets
• In 21 T20 matches, he took 25 wickets 
•  Tanzim Hasan Sakib shared his misogynist view on social media 

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BCB issues a warning to the young bowler 

Bangladeshi fast bowler Tanzim Hasan had to apologise to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) when old inflammatory posts on Facebook surfaced after he made his international debut at the Asia Cup last week. Some of these posts are from 2014, but they went viral after his ODI debut for Bangladesh on September 15 against India, in which he played a key role in the victory by getting wickets. As quoted by ESPN Cricinfo:

On a Facebook post from September 2022, he said: 

"A working woman will not allow her husband or children to have their way with her; she loses her charm, destroys her family, her purdah, and the society."

In another post, he said:  "If you marry a girl who mingles freely in the university, you can't get your child a demure mother."

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Tanzim Hasan issues apology to the BCB 

Jalal Yunus, the BCB director, has issued a warning to Tanzim after his old posts went viral, He said this at a press conference:

"We will monitor him. His family is concerned too. They didn't expect such a situation. They are also sorry. We have given him a warning because he is a young player, and a World Cup is ahead. If he does something like this again, we will take action against him"

"The cricket operations committee spoke to Tanzim Sakib on behalf of the Bangladesh Cricket Board," 

"The media committee also got in touch with him. We informed Tanzim about the discussions surrounding his Facebook posts. He said that he didn't write those posts to hurt anyone. He wrote it for himself, not targeting anyone. If those posts have hurt anyone's feelings, he said he was sorry.

"He said that the posts he has made about women, he takes full responsibility. He said that he is not a misogynist.

Tanzim Hasan has apologized for and accepted full responsibility for his posts, which led to their removal. It's worth noting that cricketers are among the world's most powerful influencers; many young people look up to them as idols and such type of actions are a threat to society.