The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is in danger over its stance of not traveling to India to play the upcoming T20 World Cup 2026 citing security concerns, while the cricketers of the Bangladesh cricket team may have a different opinion. Possible differences between cricketers and officials have put the board in a situation of major crisis.
Through a press conference on Thursday, Bangladesh officials made it clear that they are not willing to travel to India to play the T20 World Cup, as they claimed that they have not received any assurance from the International Cricket Council (ICC). The decision came in broad daylight after a meeting with the cricketers. But according to a recent media report, Bangladeshi cricketers may have different views, which the authorities did not take seriously.
Bangladesh cricketers may have different thoughts
According to a report published by Cricbuzz, Bangladesh’s star cricketers, such as T20I captain Liton Das and Test captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto, were in favor of traveling to India to play the tournament and may have expressed their views in the meeting, but it had no impact on the decision taken by the officials.
Bangladesh Cricket Board stands by its stance on not traveling to India due to expressed ‘security’ concerns. To support his decision he cited ‘past events’ and potential threats as examples.
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One-sided meeting between players and officials?
It seems that the meeting was mostly one-sided. The officials must have organized the meeting only to inform the cricketers about their decision. Did the cricketers get any significant opportunity to express their views to overturn the decision? The question has been raised.
A cricketer told the media, “The meeting was not called to give our consent, as was initially reported. Rather, we were called so that we were kept abreast of developments in the ongoing crisis. They made up their mind before coming to the meeting and decided what they would do, and it is not as if any decision was taken keeping our views in mind.”
Bangladesh government’s sports advisor called it ‘injustice’
After the meeting yesterday, Asif Nazrul, Sports Advisor to the Bangladesh government, claimed that despite the appeal by the cricketers and people associated with the team to the council to shift their World Cup venues from India to Sri Lanka due to potential security threats, they did not get any satisfactory response from the ICC, which has angered the BCB and government officials.
“I feel we did not get justice from the ICC. Whether we play in the World Cup or not is entirely a government decision. Nothing has happened in India in recent times to show that things have changed there (in terms of security). We hope the ICC will give us justice,” Nazrul said.
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