Mustafizur controversy: Bangladesh seek shift of T20 World Cup games from India

NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has been directed by the country’s sports ministry to question a displacement of Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup league matches from India to Sri Lanka, citing “concerns astir players’ safety” pursuing Mustafizur Rahman’s removal from the IPL connected BCCI instructions.The Shah Rukh Khan co-owned IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) released the Bangladesh left-arm pacer — bought for Rs 9.20 crore aft a bidding warfare astatine past month’s auction successful Abu Dhabi — successful enactment with the BCCI’s diktat.

BCB president and erstwhile Bangladesh skipper Aminul Islam Bulbul refrained from making immoderate nationalist remark aft an exigency committee gathering held successful the aftermath of the development.However, authorities advisor Asif Nazrul said helium has instructed the committee to attack the Jay Shah-led ICC to displacement Bangladesh’s 4 league matches — 3 scheduled successful Kolkata and 1 successful Mumbai — to Sri Lanka.“As the advisor successful complaint of the Ministry of Sports, I person instructed the Cricket Control Board to enactment the full substance successful penning and explicate it to the ICC,” Nazrul wrote successful Bengali connected his Facebook page.“The committee indispensable marque it wide that if a Bangladeshi cricketer, contempt being nether contract, cannot play successful India, past the Bangladesh nationalist squad cannot consciousness harmless travelling to India to play the World Cup.“I person besides directed the committee to formally petition that Bangladesh’s World Cup matches beryllium held successful Sri Lanka instead,” helium further wrote.

Bangladesh’s 4 league fixtures are against West Indies (February 7), Italy (February 9) and England (February 14) successful Kolkata, followed by their last radical lucifer against Nepal (February 17) successful Mumbai.A BCCI source, however, maintained that specified a displacement is virtually intolerable with conscionable a period remaining earlier the tournament.“You can't conscionable alteration games astatine someone's whims and fancies. It is simply a logistical nightmare.

Think astir absorption teams. Their aerial tickets, hotels are booked.“Also connected each days determination are 3 games each which means 1 crippled is successful Sri Lanka. There is broadcast crew. So it volition beryllium easier said than done,” the root said.India’s arch-rival Pakistan are already playing their World Cup matches successful Sri Lanka arsenic portion of an knowing reached months ago.Meanwhile, Indo-Bangladesh relations person deteriorated sharply pursuing the ouster of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India successful August past twelvemonth aft anti-government protests.She was aboriginal sentenced to decease successful absentia by a tribunal for her alleged relation successful a deadly crackdown during the agitation successful which respective students were killed.While the BCCI did not explicitly mention the prevailing governmental concern arsenic the crushed for seeking Rahman’s release, it indicated that the determination was triggered by caller developments.Hindus person been targeted successful convulsive attacks since Hasina’s ouster.