BCB seeks security from Bangladesh military for hosting the Women’s T20 World Cup. Discover the latest updates and implications for cricket fans.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has sought safety assurance from the nation’s military chief for conducting the ladies’s T20 World Cup, scheduled to be held in October 3-20 amid political unrest within the nation following ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The ladies’s T20 World Cup is slated to be held in two Bangladesh cities —- Sylhet and Mirpur. In line with Cricbuzz, the BCB has written to Bangladesh’s military ch
ief of workers Basic Waker-Uz-Zaman searching for safety assurance for organising the match.The nice and cozy-up spherical for the ladies’s T20 World Cup is ready to start on September 27.
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The ICC has been monitoring the scenario after violent protests in opposition to the federal government led to deaths of a whole lot of individuals and culminated with the resignation and fleeing of former PM Hasina.
It’s anticipated that the ICC might additionally decide to host the match at a special venue inside an identical time zone, which leaves India, UAE and Sri Lanka as the alternatives.
The present BCB president Nazmul Hasan Papon has additionally fled the nation together with a couple of others board administrators, who have been believed to be having the backing of the previous PM’s occasion Awami League.
Nevertheless, a couple of different administrators stay in Dhaka and hope that the match won’t be shifted from Bangladesh.
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{@BCBtigers}(BCB) umpiring committee chairman Iftekhar Ahmed Mithu stated, “We are attempting to host the match.” “To be sincere, there will not be too many amongst us current within the nation and on Thursday (August 8) we now have despatched a letter to the Military Chief concerning assurance in regards to the safety of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup as we now have solely two months in hand,” he stated.
“ICC communicated with us two days again and we replied that we are going to come again to them shortly.”
“After the (interim) authorities is shaped, nonetheless we now have to present them assurance of the safety contemplating it can’t be given by the board or any anybody else aside from a regulation enforcement company of the nation and so we despatched the letter and after getting written assurance from them (the Military), we’ll inform the ICC,” he added.
