T20 WC: Bangladesh wants its games shifted out of India; BCB cites player safety

DHAKA/NEW DELHI: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) connected Sunday decided that its cricket squad volition not question to India for the upcoming T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Sri Lanka.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!In a retaliation pursuing prima Bangladesh bowler Mustafizur Rahman’s exclusion connected Saturday from the upcoming IPL, wherever helium is contracted with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), the BCB, pursuing an exigency gathering Sunday afternoon, decided to formally petition the ICC seeking an alternate venue extracurricular India. It cited information concerns “under the existent circumstances”, and said it is considering the proposal from Bangladesh interim govt.Bangladesh were scheduled to play each 4 league matches of the World Cup successful Mumbai and Kolkata.

"The committee reviewed the concern successful detail, taking into relationship developments implicit the past 24 hours and expressed heavy interest implicit the wide circumstances surrounding the information of the Bangladesh nationalist squad successful matches scheduled to beryllium played successful India,” a BCB connection said.“In airy of this decision, BCB has formally requested the International Cricket Council (ICC), arsenic the lawsuit authority, to see relocating each of Bangladesh’s matches to a venue extracurricular India,”, the BCB said, “The Bangladesh Cricket Board looks guardant to the ICC’s knowing of the concern and an urgent effect connected this matter.”

The determination was made “to safeguard the information and wellbeing of Bangladeshi players, squad officials, committee members and different stakeholders,” the connection further added.The BCB had back-to-back meetings from Saturday nighttime to Sunday afternoon. While their connection Sunday did not notation Rahman’s ouster from the IPL, sources said BCB posed 3 large concerns earlier the ICC: Rahman’s ouster from IPL, the existent information concern successful India and wherefore decisions were taken against Bangladeshi players (in the IPL) citing information reasons.

Due to the persisting diplomatic hostility betwixt India and Pakistan, ICC has already allocated each of Pakistan’s matches successful Sri Lanka for the Feb 7-Mar 8 World Cup.Rahman’s removal Saturday, aft the BCCI instructed KKR to merchandise the pacer, sparked outrage successful Bangladesh, with many, including sports and instrumentality advisor Asif Nazrul starring calls for the BCB not to question to India, and to petition a relocation of its matches to Sri Lanka.“I powerfully condemn and protestation this. As the advisor successful complaint of the sports ministry, I person asked the cricket power committee to explicate the full substance to ICC and constitute to it,” Nazrul said connected Saturday night.“We invited this determination taken successful the discourse of the extremist communal policies of the Indian cricket board,” Nazrul said connected Sunday.Many successful Bangladesh consciousness that calls to driblet the IPL from section tv altogether could present inevitably grow.Information and broadcasting advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan connected Sunday said immoderate determination implicit halting broadcast of IPL successful Bangladesh would beryllium taken aft reviewing the ineligible ground and thoroughly examining applicable procedures.TOI has learnt that BCCI has besides got into a huddle and is discussing the substance with ICC. With the T20 World Cup conscionable astir a period away, it volition beryllium a logistical nightmare to relocate the matches pursuing Bangladesh’s determination not to question to India.Before assuming bureau arsenic ICC president successful Dec 2024, Jay Shah, arsenic BCCI secretary, had, successful an statement with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), decided that India and Pakistan teams volition not circuit each other. Pakistan’s cricketers past played successful India during the ODI World successful 2023. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if Shah heeds to Bangladesh’s demands without carrying retired a recce of the venues successful India.It indispensable beryllium noted that the BCCI had not specified immoderate crushed for instructing Kolkata Knight Riders to expel Rahman.

BCCI caput Devajit Saikia had simply mentioned the determination was “due to caller developments”.BCCI is inactive not committed to touring Bangladesh without govt approval, having already cancelled a white-ball circuit past year. BCB had planned a white-ball bid with India aboriginal this twelvemonth successful Sept. However, if BCB doesn’t relent connected their request for relocation of matches to Sri Lanka, the BCCI volition suffer different ICC afloat subordinate federation to play bilateral cricket with.This could unit ICC to rejig its aboriginal tours programme (FTP) keeping the World Test Championship successful mind. It volition besides pb to uncertainty implicit staging multi-nation tournaments successful the subcontinent, including the Commonwealth Games scheduled to beryllium hosted by India successful 2030.Last year, the Indian govt had released a argumentation wherever it restricted sporting ties with Pakistan to lone multi-nation events successful lieu of their planned bid for the 2036 Olympics. In 2024, lone a inferior squad from Pakistan had travelled to Chennai for the South Asian Athletics. No Pakistan squad has travelled to India for immoderate lawsuit crossed disciplines since. Whether this latest sporting impasse betwixt India and Bangladesh volition spell the IndiaPak way, clip volition tell.