In the event that Bangladesh does not participate, two of the remaining four teams will make the journey to the 'Super Eight'. This will not only make the group stage matches more exciting. They will also be different.
What you should know
With less than a month left for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka, one fact is still uncertain. Will Bangladesh participate in the World Cup? Interest in this regard has also increased since Bangladesh is in the same group as Nepal in the tournament. Group 'C' also includes England, West Indies and Italy.
In the event of Bangladesh not participating, two of the remaining four teams will make the ‘Super Eight’ journey. This will not only make the group stage matches more exciting. They will also be different. The two Test teams will be strong candidates for entering the ‘Super Eight’, but an unexpected result against two associate countries along with Nepal will also increase the possibility of a knockout stage.
According to the latest developments, if the Bangladeshi media is to be taken as a basis, Bangladesh’s participation is probably uncertain. This has thrown the entire country’s cricket into confusion. The tension between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has created this situation. The BCB has once again requested the International Cricket Council (ICC)
to shift its match to Sri Lanka.
Earlier, the BCB had made a similar request citing security reasons, but the ICC flatly rejected it and said that if it does not qualify for the World Cup, it will be considered a ‘walkover’. The news has already reached the international media. Why is BCB itself under pressure at this time? If its team does not participate in the competition, it could have a major economic impact on the entire cricket there. Bangladeshi cricket is also in a critical situation because it is largely dependent on India for its finances.
Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders had removed Mustafizur Rahman from his contract on the orders of the BCCI. This decision came at a time when relations between the two neighboring countries have cooled. In response to this, BCB had announced that its team would not go to India to play in the upcoming World Cup. Similarly, the Bangladeshi government had also decided to stop the live broadcast of the IPL in Bangladesh.
The media there is writing that the interim government of Bangladesh is reluctant to send its cricket team to play there in the World Cup amid deteriorating relations with India. Due to this, some old players have started estimating that the entire Bangladeshi cricket may collapse. Former captain Tamim Iqbal has said that 90 to 95 percent of Bangladeshi cricket's earnings come from the ICC.
In this case, Tamim's argument is that Bangladesh's non-participation in the next World Cup could be very expensive. The BCB itself has also admitted that 60 percent of the board's income comes from the ICC. The main source of ICC's income is India. Tamim is also being widely criticized in Bangladesh. The argument has been made that this former captain could not understand the feelings of the country.
Due to the latest developments, Bangladeshi Twenty20 team captains Liton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim have lost their sponsorship contracts with Indian companies. Most of Bangladesh's international players are sponsored by the Indian captaincy. It is expected that the number of such contracts will increase. Therefore, there is a fear among Bangladeshi cricketers that they will suffer a huge financial loss.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Cricket Board has also proposed to hold Bangladeshi games in its country. This proposal will probably not be acceptable to the ICC either. Of all the teams that have refused to play in the ICC-organized tournaments so far, those teams have suffered losses in all of them. If Bangladesh does not go to India, it will be considered that they have missed all four of their matches. That is why the eyes of Nepali cricket are also on the whole incident.
