Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, and Mahmudullah Riyad's teams, Prime Bank and Mohammedan Sporting Club, have objected to playing a match in the Dhaka League. Why? Because there was a female umpire in the match. In the match, Sathira Jakir Jessy served as the field umpire alongside Moniruzzaman. Seeing the female umpire, players and officials from both teams expressed frustration and disappointment right on the field. As a result, the match could not start at the scheduled time. After a 15-minute delay, the game began with Jessy as the umpire. However, that day, instead of requesting an umpire change, the committee chairman was called.

Was there any doubt about Jessy's competence, impartiality, or integrity from these two teams or their players? No, there wasn't. Their objection was only one - they didn't want to play under the direction of a female umpire. Is there any basis for this objection? No, there are no such barriers in cricket rules, laws, or practices. Women have umpired Test matches involving men. Women have also umpired in men's One Day International matches. And having women umpire in domestic leagues or premier cricket is neither something new nor unprecedented. So what was the basis of their objection?

There wasn't any. These are manifestations of patriarchy and misogyny, without any external expression of disdain or prejudice towards women. Those players and officials who raised such bold and distorted claims are all embodiments of blatant sexism. Is there any reason why a woman can't umpire in cricket? There's no reason – it's pure misogyny.

What about the role of religion? It might have a role. But even there, I'll hold them accountable for their misogyny. Because cricket is not governed by religious rules or regulations, then why bring religion into whether a woman can umpire or not? And if a woman umpiring clashes directly with religious regulations, then you should quit playing cricket altogether. Why can't women umpire? Will cricket collapse if a woman umpires? What's all this fuss about?

The fundamental issue is that they don't consider women as complete human beings. You can say Imtiaz repeats this point repeatedly. It's repeated because we see the repeated consequences of this belief in various aspects of society. Our society still considers women a bit less human compared to men. Religious regulations are scary, but even without them, you'll find many secular men who don't consider women as human. For them, humans mean men and women are just slightly better than animals. Perhaps they want the welfare of women, but they think of women as sub-human.

Remember, no one is indispensable or immutable. A team may suffer for a day, play a few bad matches, but it will bounce back. However, if these toxic elements persist, the country's cricket will be disgraced, it will decline, and we will be labeled as a misogynistic team, affecting the entire nation.

Identify those who are leading these satanic acts, those who are coming up with such notions. Whoever they may be, ban them - ban them from cricket forever, both from domestic and international cricket.

• The text is collected from Barrister Imtiaz Mahmood's Facebook timeline. The status mentioned in Bengali is linked in the text.