Bangladesh given someday to determine whether or not it can play in India or face forfeiture, permitting Scotland to take its place within the match.
Bangladesh has someday to determine whether or not its males’s cricket staff will journey to India for the T20 World Cup or face expulsion from the match, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has reportedly instructed the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) after a board assembly.
The ICC’s board met through video convention to resolve the dispute round Bangladesh’s participation within the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 and determined to proceed with the match as per its revealed schedule, the worldwide cricket physique mentioned on Wednesday.
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The BCB has refused to play its 4 group-stage fixtures in India, citing security and safety issues for its gamers, and requested the ICC to relocate the fixtures to co-hosts Sri Lanka for the upcoming match.
“The choice was taken after contemplating all safety assessments performed, together with impartial evaluations, all of which indicated there was no menace to Bangladesh gamers, media individuals, officers and followers at any of the match venues in India,” the ICC mentioned in a press release.
“The ICC Board famous that it was not possible to make adjustments so near the match and that altering the schedule below the circumstances, within the absence of any credible safety menace, may set a precedent that may jeopardise the sanctity of future ICC occasions and undermine its neutrality as a world governing physique.
“The ICC administration additionally engaged in a sequence of correspondences and conferences with the BCB in a bid to resolve the deadlock, sharing detailed info on the occasion safety plan, together with layered federal and state law-enforcement help.”
Along with confirming its stance on the relocation of matches, the ICC has additionally reportedly given the BCB a one-day deadline to substantiate its participation or forfeit its place within the match.
“If Bangladesh proceed to refuse to play in India because of safety issues, the ICC board has determined to exchange them with Scotland – based mostly on staff rankings – within the match,” a report on ESPNcricinfo mentioned.
The dispute between Bangladesh and India erupted on January 3, following prime Bangladeshi quick bowler Mustafizur Rahman’s abrupt removing from the Indian Premier League (IPL) upon directions from the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) as a result of ongoing political tensions between the 2 nations.
The ICC mentioned it had shared detailed impartial safety assessments, complete venue-level safety plans and formal assurances from the host authorities with the BCB and that each one stories concluded “there isn’t any credible or verifiable menace to the protection or safety of the Bangladesh staff in India”.
“Regardless of these efforts, the BCB maintained its place, repeatedly linking its participation within the match to a single, remoted and unrelated growth regarding one in all its gamers’ involvement in a home league,” an ICC spokesperson mentioned.
“This linkage has no bearing on the match’s safety framework or the situations governing participation within the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup.”
Bangladesh’s interim authorities and the BCB have repeatedly instructed the ICC that their staff won’t journey to India, with a prime sport official saying his nation won’t again right down to “unreasonable coercion” and play their matches in India regardless of safety issues.
“We have now logically requested a change of venue for legitimate causes,” Asif Nazrul, youth and sports activities adviser within the Bangladesh interim authorities, instructed the state-run BSS information company late on Tuesday.
“We can’t be compelled to play in India via illogical strain or unreasonable coercion.”
The T20 World Cup begins in just a little greater than two weeks, on February 7, with Bangladesh’s 4 group matches to be performed in Kolkata and Mumbai.
‘Complete of Bangladesh is unsure’
Bangladesh captain Litton Das mentioned he had no thought if the staff would participate.
“From the place I stand, I’m unsure, everyone seems to be unsure,” Das instructed reporters after a home cricket match on Tuesday, asking: “Are you positive we’ll play the World Cup?
“I believe at this second, the entire of Bangladesh is unsure,” he added in feedback reported by Dhaka’s Prothom Alo newspaper.
Diplomatic relations between the once-close allies have been sharply examined since August final yr, when former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to New Delhi from Dhaka after an rebellion in opposition to her rule.
Bangladesh blames India for a lot of its troubles, together with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s help for Hasina when she was in energy.
Throughout the World Cup, Bangladesh will maintain its first elections since Hasina’s ousting.
