Amid the continuing political disaster in Bangladesh and its Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tendering her resignation on Monday, uncertainty looms massive over the nation internet hosting the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup, scheduled in October.
Although the event remains to be almost a few months away, there’s a hypothesis that the event might ultimately be moved to an alternate venue. Nonetheless, an ICC spokesperson instructed Sportstar that the worldwide physique is ‘carefully monitoring the scenario’ earlier than deciding on the long run plan of action.
“The ICC is carefully monitoring developments in coordination with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), their safety businesses and our personal unbiased safety consultants. Our precedence is the security and well-being of all contributors,” the spokesperson mentioned.
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With a change in authorities, a shake-up is feasible on the BCB administration as properly, and a number of other sources within the collaborating Boards, together with the BCCI, have indicated that the difficulty shall be mentioned with the ICC shortly, relying on how ‘issues pan out in Bangladesh and the BCB’.
Regardless of a number of makes an attempt by this publication, neither BCB president Najmul Hasan Papon nor different functionaries of the Board, have been accessible for a touch upon the difficulty.
Over 18 days, 10 groups are scheduled to play 23 fixtures at two venues in Bangladesh – the Shere Bangla Nationwide Cricket Stadium in Dhaka and the Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Sylhet – between October 3 and 20.
Sources have confirmed that as a result of ongoing turmoil, neither the BCB nor the ICC might begin the ticketing course of and even the media accreditation, which often will get finished two months previous to the occasion, is but to start.
In the course of the ICC’s annual convention in Colombo, the matter was raised by a number of member nations, nevertheless it was not on the agenda and wasn’t mentioned formally.
Again in Might, the ICC unveiled the T20 World Cup schedule in Dhaka in an occasion, within the presence of India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and her Bangladesh counterpart Nigar Sultana. Forward of the occasion, the 2 captains caught up with the then Prime Minister Hasina at her residence.