Disgraced Bangladesh cricketer seeks comeback - Will he get a chance?

It was a Bangladeshi Test cricketer from the game banned after he charged a 11-year-old girl he apologized as a maid Thursday engaged in torture and called to be allowed to return the game.

Shahadat Hossain, who abused the girl has refused in the past, apologized for what he called his "outrage" and said he had made a mistake.

"I have unauthorized incident I regret was involved in the whole nation and to apologize," he said in a statement in Bengali.

"For the sake of cricket and my existence, I want cricket back.

"I appeal to the nation, the BCB (Bangladesh Cricket Board) to allow me to return cricket and correct my mistake. I apologize for my crime," he said.

The 29-year-old pace bowler played 38 Tests and 51 one-day internationals before he was suspended from all forms of the game.

Bangladeshi police accused him and his wife, Nritto Shahadat, with assault and torture in December, after the girl was found crying on a street, their eyes hurt and swollen.

The couple went into hiding after police raided her home in September, when the girl they claimed they had beaten and tortured.

Television pictures showed, she looked frail and thin and police, said one of her hands had implementation burned with a hot cooking.

He spent two months in prison, after he vomited in the police on 5 October and was released on bail, as was, as his wife has.

A judge has that the couple have ordered put on trial, and if they put in prison sentenced to 14 years.

But a source said the couple and the girl's family can come to financial compensation that would see her the allegations.

Shahadat told AFP in an interview in December that the allegations were false and had ruined his career.