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Bangladesh players are often forced to disguise the interaction of controversies successful the build-up to and astatine major tournaments, contempt however the outer sound affects them, trial skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto said.
Uncertainty looms implicit Bangladesh's information successful the Twenty20 World Cup pursuing a petition by the Bangladesh Cricket Board to the International Cricket Council to determination their World Cup matches retired of India implicit information concerns.
"We haven't got a bully effect successful immoderate World Cup. We had a bully accidental past clip (at the 2024 T20 World Cup), but we couldn't bash it," Shanto told reporters connected Friday (January 9, 2026).
"You volition announcement that earlier each World Cup, there's immoderate incidental that takes place. As a subordinate who has played 1 oregon 2 of these tournaments, I tin archer you that it affects us.
"But we enactment as if thing affects america since we are nonrecreational cricketers. Even you cognize that it affects us. It is not easy. It is amended if these things didn't happen. I deliberation the players inactive effort to support each things speech to execute well."
Bangladesh, who person ne'er won a World Cup title, are scheduled to play 3 World Cup matches successful Kolkata adjacent month.
Tensions person heightened successful caller weeks betwixt Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Hundreds protested near Bangladesh's High Commission successful New Delhi past period aft a Hindu mill idiosyncratic was beaten and acceptable connected occurrence successful Bangladesh's Mymensingh territory implicit allegations helium insulted the Prophet Mohammad.
According to respective Indian media reports, the ICC told Bangladesh they indispensable play successful India, which is co-hosting the February 7-March 8 lawsuit with Sri Lanka, oregon forfeit the matches.
However, the BCB dismissed claims of immoderate ultimatum arsenic "completely false", saying it intended to enactment with the ICC for a mutually acceptable solution.
"I would besides adhd that this happening is beyond our control," said Shanto, who has not been included successful the T20 World Cup squad.
"Wherever we play the World Cup ultimately, I would deliberation that the players person to enactment similar thing is bothering them, and they tin bash good for the team."
