Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman (fourth from proper) celebrates taking a wicket with teammates throughout their ACC Males’s T20 Asia Cup Tremendous 4 match towards Sri Lanka on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Dubai on September 20, 2025. — AFP“We still hope that ICC will do justice with us” says Nazrul. He says safety state of affairs in India stays unchanged.Bangladesh sports activities adviser says “no scope” to vary resolution.
DHAKA: Bangladesh won’t journey to India to play in subsequent month’s T20 World Cup, its cricket board stated Thursday, a day after the sport’s governing physique rejected the nation’s plea to shift its video games to Sri Lanka.
The BCB’s resolution got here a day after the sport’s governing physique rejected the nation’s plea to shift its video games to Sri Lanka.
“Our only demand is to play the World Cup — but not in India,” BCB President Aminul Islam Bulbul advised reporters, successfully ruling out their participation within the event.
Based on the main points, the cricket board took the choice after its officers met the nationwide gamers and Bangladesh’s Adviser for the Ministry of Youth and Sports activities, Asif Nazrul.
He additional careworn that the safety state of affairs in India remained unchanged and in addition that the priority stemmed from a “real incident”.
“There is no scope to change our decision. We believe we did not get justice from the ICC. We still hope that ICC will do justice with us,” Nazrul stated after a gathering with Bangladesh cricketers and BCB officers.
“The security situation in India remains unchanged. Our security concerns did not materialise out of thin air. It stemmed from a real incident.
“The nation [India] couldn’t present safety for certainly one of our cricketers. In that nation, the cricket board is an prolonged a part of the federal government, which both failed or was reluctant to provide certainly one of my cricketers safety when put underneath stress by extremist teams,” he added.
