PM congratulates Tigers for winning ODI series
ECNEC adopts thanksgiving motion congratulating the cricketers
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Bangladesh Cricket Team for their ODI series victory over West Indies.
Bangladesh outplayed West Indies by 18 runs in the series-deciding third ODI at Warner Park, Basseterre in St Kitts on Saturday, reports UNB.
Meanwhile, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) also congratulated Bangladesh cricket team for clinching the victory.
A thanksgiving motion congratulating the Tigers was unanimously adopted at a meeting of ECNEC held at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka on Sunday, reports BSS.
According to a planning ministry press release, ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal moved the proposal at the meeting.
Bangladesh clinched the ODI series against West Indies yesterday by winning the last match by 18 runs at Basseterre in West Indies.
In the thanksgiving motion, the planning minister congratulated the national cricket team through the prime minister and on behalf of the cricket loving people of the country for attaining this historic feat.
He also extended his heartfelt thanks to the Prime Minister as the national cricket team created history in the West Indies on Saturday.
Mustafa Kamal said under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh is now moving ahead in all fields basing on the policy-‘All Inclusive, Well Drawn, Integrated Approaches GB Perspective’.
“One policy is followed in all fields of the country — be it in economy, social fields or in the sporting arena,” Kamal said in the motion.
The motion said series win against West Indies on their soil had always been a tough task and after 2009, Bangladesh again clinched the ODI series over West Indies this time and both this happy moments came under the tenure of Awami League government headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The planning minister in the motion also hoped that Bangladesh would be able to gain much more successes in the coming days in all fields including the sporting arena.