Mohammad Mithun has become the new president of Cricketers' Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) after winning the players body's election, held in Dhaka on Thursday. Election commissioner Iftekhar Rahman announced that Mithun got 154 votes, beating Salim Shahed who was the interim CWAB convenor since May this year. Shahed got 34 votes.

"We will try to solve everything through negotiation," Mithun said shortly after the election results were announced. "If that's not possible, as I have come here to protect the rights of the cricketers, I have to speak for them. The BCB is our guardian. We can go to our guardian with whatever demands that we have. I hope the BCB sees those demands positively."

CWAB was established in 2004 but it hasn't had any elections in the 21 years of existenc

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