Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Nazrul today said as the security situation in India has not changed, there is no scope for the Bangladesh team to travel there to compete in the ICC T20 World Cup.
“There is no scope to change our decision. We are not giving up yet. Our team is ready, and we still hope that the ICC will deliver justice. We want the ICC to take our genuine security risk into consideration and allow us to play in Sri Lanka,” Asif Nazrul said this after a meeting with Bangladesh team cricketers and BCB officials.
“There has been no change in the security risk situation regarding playing in India at present. This concern is not based on any abstract or hypothetical idea; rather, it stems from a real incident in which the Indian cricket board failed to provide security to one of our top players [Mustafizur Rahman] under pressure from extremists, and he was asked to leave India.
“Since the Indian cricket board is effectively an extended arm of the government and could not ensure the safety of even a single player, no assurance has been given by the ICC or the Indian government that they would be able to guarantee the security of our entire team, journalists, and spectators,” he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, the ICC rejected Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB’s) request to relocate Bangladesh’s matches from India and chose to keep the tournament’s schedule unchanged after a board meeting.
It also the BCB a one-day deadline to decide after conferring with the government whether they would travel to India for the tournament or not.
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