Websites hear Shaheen's plea-BC acknowledged!

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Banglacricket has been acknowledged for the tremendous gesture shown by all members. Congratulations to all !


Websites hear Shaheen's plea
Sports Reporter

While the country's cricket authorities preferred to remain silent, members of fan sites dedicated to the Bangladesh team and other independent contributors have come forward to help ailing cricket scorer Mahbub Ul-Haque Shaheen.

Shaheen, a grade two scorer, is surviving with one functioning kidney and is in need of immediate transplant. He has been told by doctors in India to undergo the transplantation without delay. But the cost of the treatment, estimated at over five lakh taka is impossible to bear for the 30-year-old.


Daily Star Sport carried a news item on Shaheen's plight on April 21 titled 'Cricket scorer fighting for life' following which banglacricket.com, a popular and thriving website with members scattered across the globe, launched a fundraising campaign and until its May 5 deadline, collected generous donations amounting to some 1,800 dollars. Encouraged by the response, banglacricket have decided to keep the fund raising campaign open for another seven days.


Shaheen has also received cash donation from another fast growing website ******.com while bdjobs.com, an online job search site have also reportedly contributed.


Surprisingly, the Bangladesh Cricket Board has not come forward with a similar noble gesture despite pleas on behalf of Shaheen from different bodies.

Edited on, May 5, 2005, 6:27 PM GMT, by oracle.