Bangladesh cricket board refused to play their T20 World Cup matches in India, and wants their fixtures moved to Sri Lanka.
Bangladesh’s cricketers and the government’s sports advisor in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have not changed, and they said that they are not ready to play in India amid security concerns.
“We will go back to the ICC with our plan to play in Sri Lanka. They did give us a 24-hour ultimatum, but a global body can’t really do that. ICC will miss out on 200 million people watching the World Cup. It will be their loss … ICC is calling Sri Lanka co-hosts. They are not co-hosts. It is a hybrid model. Some of the things I heard in the ICC meeting were shocking.” BCB president Aminul Islam said.
Government sports adviser Asif Nazrul said “We are hopeful that ICC will allow us to play in Sri Lanka. It is our government that has decided not to go to India.”
On Wednesday, after the ICC Board meeting, the ICC dismissed the BCB’s security concerns and said Bangladesh would be replaced at the T20 World Cup if they continued to insist on not playing in India.
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