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Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Aminul Islam connected Monday (January 5, 2026) said that "we bash not consciousness secure" successful sending the nationalist squad to India for the T20 World Cup considering the existent circumstances.
Mr. Aminul spoke to reporters a time aft BCB formally requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to displacement their T20 World Cup games retired of India, a beardown determination triggered by pacer Mustafizur Rahman's merchandise from the IPL connected BCCI instruction.
"You cognize that we, on with each the directors of the cricket board, held 2 meetings earlier taking this determination and astatine this infinitesimal we bash not consciousness unafraid sending our squad to India to play the World Cup," Mr. Aminul said.
"So we wrote a missive to the ICC, and successful the missive we intelligibly stated what we wanted to say. Because to us, information appeared to beryllium a large interest and that is what we are following.”
"We person sent an email to the ICC and we are expecting them to archer america to person a gathering with them soon wherever we volition explicit our concern," helium said.
Mr. Aminul said BCB's adjacent measurement volition beryllium connected ICC's response.
"But what our adjacent measurement volition beryllium be connected the reply to the email we person sent. We are not communicating with BCCI due to the fact that this is an ICC event. We are communicating with the ICC," helium said.
BCCI caput Devajit Saikia, portion announcing the diktat to merchandise Mr. Rahman, had simply stated that it was being done due to the fact that of "developments each around", without explaining the specifics.
Bangladesh was scheduled to play 3 T20 World Cup matches successful Kolkata and 1 successful Mumbai.
Drawn successful Group C, the squad was owed to look the West Indies successful their opening lucifer astatine Eden Gardens successful Kolkata connected February 7 and subsequently vie against defending champions England, Italy and Nepal.
The Indo-Bangladesh narration has deed a rocky spot aft the ouster of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India successful August past twelvemonth pursuing anti-government protests.
She was sentenced to decease successful absentia by a tribunal for her alleged relation successful a deadly crackdown during the agitation successful which respective students were killed.
Hindus person been targetted for convulsive attacks since Hasina's ouster.
