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Another feather in Rafique's cap

Just a couple of days after being adjudged the Best Bowler and All-Rounder at the Bangladesh Cricket Awards night, Mohammad Rafique was voted Cricketer of the Year at the Partex Bengal Tigers Cricket Awards yesterday.The ace left-arm spinner received 213 votes to beat his national teammates Shahriar Nafees, Habibul Bashar, Shahadat Hossain Rajib and Mohammad Ashraful.
Nafees, who received second highest 179 votes, had notched Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) Best Batsman and Cricketer of the Year awards on Wednesday night. Bashar came third with 169 votes.
Former national captain Akram Khan announced the name of the winner after another ex-national captain Aminul Islam Bulbul had introduced the nominees on the beautifully decked stage at the NSC conference room yesterday.
BCB vice-president and Partex Group vice-chairman Aziz Al Kaiser Tito handed over a crest and a cheque of Tk 25,000 to Rafique in presence of the country's cricket fraternity. National coach Dav Whatmore and cricket board officials were also present.


Bengal Tigers -- the unofficial fan club of the Bangladesh cricket team -- organised the show with its members, ex national cricketers, all BCB standing committee chiefs, umpires, match referees and sports journalists voting the five nominees on the basis of their international performance in 2005-06 season.

I thought banglacricket is THE unofficial fan club/fan site. Bengal Tiger can be "a" unofficial fan club of BD cricket team. May be we are the official fan club/fan site.

Anyways, Congrats to Rafique.