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NEW DELHI: Even arsenic the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup volition spell up arsenic scheduled, with Bangladesh’s matches to beryllium played successful India, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Aminul Islam Bulbul urged that the games beryllium shifted to Sri Lanka, stating that it is not harmless for them to play successful India astatine the moment.The determination was taken pursuing an ICC Board meeting, held via video league connected Wednesday, to sermon the mode guardant aft the BCB requested that its matches beryllium moved to Sri Lanka.
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"Playing successful India close present is not harmless for us; we privation to play successful Sri Lanka", Aminul Islam Bulbul told reporters connected Wednesday night.The ICC said the determination came aft considering each information assessments, including autarkic reviews, which indicated that determination was nary menace to Bangladesh players, media personnel, officials, oregon fans astatine immoderate of the tourney venues successful India.The ICC Board noted that it was not feasible to marque changes truthful adjacent to the tourney and that altering the docket nether the circumstances, successful the lack of immoderate credible information threat, could acceptable a precedent that would jeopardise the sanctity of aboriginal ICC events and undermine its neutrality arsenic a planetary governing body.The ICC absorption besides engaged successful a bid of correspondences and meetings with the BCB successful an effort to resoluteness the impasse, sharing elaborate accusation connected the event’s information plan, including layered national and authorities law-enforcement support.
An ICC spokesperson said, "Over the past respective weeks, the ICC has engaged with the BCB successful sustained and constructive dialogue, with the wide nonsubjective of enabling Bangladesh's information successful the tournament. During this period, the ICC has shared elaborate inputs, including autarkic information assessments, broad venue-level information plans and ceremonial assurances from the big authorities, each of which consistently concluded that determination is nary credible oregon verifiable menace to the information oregon information of the Bangladesh squad successful India.
""Despite these efforts, the BCB maintained its position, repeatedly linking its information successful the tourney to a single, isolated and unrelated improvement concerning 1 of its players' engagement successful a home league. This linkage has nary bearing connected the tournament's information model oregon the conditions governing information successful the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.""The ICC's venue and scheduling decisions are guided by nonsubjective menace assessments, big guarantees, and the tournament's agreed presumption of participation, which use uniformly to each 20 competing nations.
In the lack of immoderate autarkic information findings that materially compromise the information of the Bangladesh team, the ICC is incapable to relocate fixtures. Doing truthful would transportation important logistical and scheduling consequences for different teams and fans worldwide, and would besides make far-reaching precedent-related challenges that hazard undermining the neutrality, fairness, and integrity of ICC governance.
The ICC remains committed to acting successful bully faith, upholding accordant standards, and safeguarding the corporate interests of the planetary game," the connection added. The T20 World Cup volition statesman connected February 7. Bangladesh are scheduled to commencement their T20 World Cup 2026 run connected February 7 against two-time champions West Indies astatine Eden Gardens successful Kolkata. The Litton Das-led broadside volition past look Italy connected February 9 astatine the aforesaid venue earlier taking connected England successful Kolkata erstwhile again. After the England match, Bangladesh are acceptable to question to Mumbai to play Nepal astatine the Wankhede Stadium.However, BCB officials said the committee volition pass the ICC of Bangladesh’s last determination aft consultations with the authorities connected Thursday.
