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Several members of the Bangladesh national cricket team fell ill due to sea sickness on their way to the island of Dominica on Thursday, where they will play the first two Twenty20 Internationals of the three-match series on July 2 and 3.
The Tigers made the five-hour journey by ferry across the Atlantic and were hammered by the motion of the big waves as several players as well as members of the staff were seen nauseating and held sick bags as they were vomiting.
A few of the players and members of staff were seen lying flat on the deck as they were feeling the distresses of motion sickness.
The voyage had a transit stop of 40 minutes on an Island called Martinique. Several cricketers, upon their stop at Martinique, refused to resume the ferry ride and requested the logistic manager, Nafees Iqbal, to expedite visas and arrange flight tickets to Dominica. But the island was part of French territory, and acquiring necessary documents within that time crunch was difficult.
Questions were raised about Bangladesh Cricket Board’s travel arrangements for the players, with the Tigers T20I skipper Mahmudullah Riyad expressing concerns about the well-being of his players.
“Besides four or five people, everyone is lying flat. They can’t even stand straight. Who is going take the liability?’’ he asked Nafees.
Bangladesh were supposed to travel to Dominica on Wednesday via the same route by the same means but couldn’t due to the warnings of an incoming cyclone that brought speeding winds and massive tides.
It was revealed that BCB had expressed their concerns, but they were assured by West Indies Cricket, who wanted to send both teams together on the ferry as per standard practice.
Despite the Tigers’ traumatic ordeal, BCB physician, Debashish Chowdhury, said that the effects are temporary.
“Sea-sickness is a form of motion sickness. A few members were affected by it. It was indeed stressful, but it will pass quickly. Sea-sickness ends when motion ends,” he told the Business Post.
