Cricket organizer Reza-e-Karim passes away

Celebrated Bangladeshi cricket organizer Reza-e-Karim breathed his last at a city hospital here on Sunday.
He was 82.
“Karim passed away in the early hours on Sunday at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital in Dhaka after a long battle with multiple health conditions including cancer,” said a press release from Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).
Karim was a former General Secretary of BCB.
Karim was one of the pioneers of organised cricket’s return to post-liberation Bangladesh as the Secretary of the then BCCB’s First Division League and Tournament Committee in 1974-75.
He was the Secretary of the BCCB when the first constitution of the Board was drafted in 1976-77. The Board extends heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased.
Namaz-e-Janaza of Reza-e-Karim was held after Zuhr prayer at Baitush Sarak Mosque, Tejgaon Monipuri Para. Later, he was buried at the Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Mirpur.