"We met the Sports Adviser (Tapan Chowdhury) today (Sunday). We requested him to cancel the present illegal committee and form an interim committee to run the country's most affluent sports body," said architect Mobashsher Hossain, one of the deposed directors who were thrown out of the board following a court ruling during the four-party government, at a press conference yesterday.

"We also demanded formation of a judicial inquiry committee to investigate all the wrongdoings of this current committee," he added.

In a long statement they raised questions on a number of issues like TV deal, huge amount of money spent as staff salary including a fat package for the CEO.

They however faced a volley of questions on their observation on the immediate past political government's influence in the board, especially the involvement of Arafat Rahman, as they also have some organisers with political identity. "What we honestly believe is that it might not be possible to bring a real change in the board even if we were in office. We think that an opportunity has come for the present caretaker government to clean not only the cricket board but also the whole sports arena," said Dewan Shafiul Arefin Tutul, who himself is the sports secretary of the Awami League Central Committee.

"The time has come to reform election system also," he added.