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With little than 5 weeks remaining for the tourney opener, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced that it volition “not question to India” for adjacent month’s Men’s T20 World Cup and has formally requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to “consider relocating Bangladesh’s matches extracurricular India”.
The announcement came a time aft the Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) directed Kolkata Knight Riders to portion ways with Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman up of the Indian Premier League 2026 season.
The BCB issued a media connection connected Sunday (January 4, 2026) evening pursuing an exigency gathering of its Board of Directors, convened to sermon Bangladesh’s information successful the World Cup successful airy of the caller escalation successful governmental tensions betwixt India and Bangladesh.
“Following a thorough appraisal of the prevailing concern and the increasing concerns regarding the information and information of the Bangladesh contingent successful India, and considering the proposal from the Bangladesh Government, the Board of Directors resolved that the Bangladesh nationalist squad volition not question to India for the tourney nether the existent conditions,” the connection said.
“In airy of this decision, the 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 Board believes that specified a measurement is indispensable to safeguard the information and well-being of Bangladeshi players, squad officials, Board members and different stakeholders, and to guarantee that the squad tin enactment successful the tourney successful a unafraid and due environment,” the connection said.
The Hindu understands that the determination was taken pursuing an proposal from the Bangladesh Sports Ministry. The substance present rests with the ICC, which is expected to respond to the BCB’s request wrong the adjacent fewer days.
The Men’s T20 World Cup is scheduled to beryllium co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka from February 7 to March 8. Of the 55 matches successful the tournament, Sri Lanka is slated to big 20, including each of Pakistan’s fixtures, with the ICC having already agreed to neutral venues for India–Pakistan matches successful ICC events until 2028.
Bangladesh is presently scheduled to play 3 league-stage matches successful Kolkata, followed by its last league fixture successful Mumbai.
While the BCCI, arsenic the main host, has a constricted relation successful specified decisions, a BCCI insider indicated that a alteration successful fixtures was improbable fixed that the tourney is “barely a period away”. However, should the ICC intervene, the BCCI would beryllium obliged to comply.
On Saturday (January 3), without citing a circumstantial reason, the BCCI asked Kolkata Knight Riders to withdraw Mustafizur Rahman — who was bought for ₹9.20 crore at past month’s auction — from IPL 2026.
