DHAKA, April 4: Angry Bangladesh fans have burned an effigy of World Cup captain Habibul Bashar after his team fell to consecutive defeats. It was for the first time that Bangladeshi fans had burned effigies of the captain of their national team, although the side had lost 117 one dayers out of 154 since 1986.

Bangladesh, who beat India by five wickets and Bermuda by seven wickets in the group phase, lost to Australia and New Zealand by 10 and nine wickets respectively in their first two matches of the Super Eights.

Students at Dhaka University burned the effigy of Habibul, calling for the skipper to quit.

Habibul had been singled out for particular criticism after scoring only 52 runs in the four innings he has had so far in the tournament.

In the last match against New Zealand on Monday, Habibul scored nine off 21 balls before he was run out.

“Habibul is continuously showing us he is losing his indispensable tag in one-day team,” Aminul Islam, a former skipper wrote in the daily New Age newspaper on Wednesday.—Reuters