Mohammedan Sporting Club have backtracked from the idea that Towhid Hridoy's suspension was reduced, with a club official claiming that the sentence has been postponed and the batter will have to serve another match suspension at some point this season or next season.

The Mohammedan captain was initially handed a one-match suspension and four demerit points for his first offence in altercating with on-field umpires. Later, his criticism of umpiring led to another sentence of three demerit points, which should equate to seven demerit points and two match suspensions.

However, the umpires' committee sent a memo to Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolitan (CCDM) where the sanction table had been changed so that seven demerit points equated to just a one-match suspension.

"We sent a letter and after one match [suspension], a decision was given that he has seven demerit points and, going forward, at some point this season or next season he will be suspended for one match," Mohammedan's cricket organiser Tariqul Islam Titu said in a media briefing yesterday.

"It's not only applicable for Mohammedan and this opportunity will be there for everyone, that the letter we have with us. Under special consideration, since he wrote to the umpires' committee or BCB [Bangladesh Cricket Board], he was given this. It's not a postponed sentence but something like that."

However, CCDM claim no letter had been sent in relation to this. Reports surfaced of a certain club coercing CCDM to make sanction changes. When this newspaper reached out to CCDM chairman Mohammad Salahuddin on whether such a letter -- as claimed by Tariqul -- was sent from CCDM to Mohammedan, he denied it.

"No. Actually, we have now gotten a letter signed for an 80,000 taka fine. He [Hridoy] accepted his first offence, which is why there was one-match suspension which we executed. The demerit point was another matter and his suspension will take place going forward," he said.

Asked if the technical committee's convener Enamul Haque Moni's resignation had delayed the decision on the second sentence, CCDM chairman agreed that was the case.

"The sentence has been delayed but when it arrives, we will execute. I don't think Mohammedan's perception is right. If the demerit points are coming into effect, automatically the suspension would be executed and, if it happens now, it will take place and there is nothing regarding postponing the decision," he added.