BCB meets in Dhaka, talks India ties amid push for better BCCI relations

NEW DELHI: A gathering of the Bangladesh Cricket Board was held successful Dhaka connected Saturday, wherever officials discussed ties with India, quality bureau ANI reported. The gathering took spot aft a connection had earlier been sent to the Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) regarding upcoming bilateral tours and cooperation.The gathering was chaired by BCB president Aminul Islam Bulbul. Earlier, manager Nazmul Abedin Fahim said the committee had sent an email to BCCI arsenic portion of regular communication. The missive mentioned the Indian team’s scheduled circuit of Bangladesh successful September, followed by the Bangladesh women’s team’s circuit of India. It besides included a connection to research much areas of practice betwixt the 2 boards.Speaking to ANI earlier, Fahim said specified exchanges are portion of regular engagement with different cricket boards."We support regular connection with assorted countries' cricket boards. As portion of that regular communication, we precocious reached retired to the Board of Control for Cricket successful India via a letter, done an email, to pass with them", Nazmul Abedin Fahim, Director (Cricket Operations) of BCB, told ANI."In the letter, we mentioned that the Indian nationalist cricket squad is scheduled to travel to Bangladesh successful September to play a series, and aft that, our women's squad is expected to spell to India.

We besides included successful the missive a petition to research immoderate different possibilities for reciprocal cricket collaborations," helium added, arsenic cited by ANI.The improvement comes months aft IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders had released Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman from its 2026 squad connected the BCCI’s direction. The determination led to a absorption from Bangladesh authorities and the public.The BCB had past asked for its matches successful the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 to beryllium shifted from India to Sri Lanka, citing information concerns.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) rejected the request, saying determination was nary credible menace to Bangladesh players.Bangladesh was aboriginal withdrawn from the tourney and replaced by Scotland. The contented was resolved aft the BCB avoided a good from the ICC and secured hosting rights for an ICC lawsuit successful 2028.Bangladesh besides stopped the telecast of IPL matches successful the country.