Bangladesh out of T20 World Cup after ICC’s refusal to change venues

Scotland regenerate Bangladesh aft the BCB's petition to relocate its games from India was turned down by the ICC.

Bangladesh volition not instrumentality portion successful the T20 World Cup 2026 aft the International Cricket Council (ICC) turned down a petition to relocate their fixtures from India implicit information concerns, and person been replaced by Scotland, the planetary cricket assemblage said.

Following weeks of deliberation and dialogue, the ICC confirmed connected Saturday that Bangladesh volition beryllium replaced by Scotland successful Group C of the tournament.

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“Scotland volition regenerate Bangladesh successful the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 aft the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) refused to enactment successful the tourney per the published lucifer schedule,” the ICC said successful its statement.

“The ICC, successful the lack of immoderate credible oregon verifiable information menace to the Bangladesh nationalist squad successful India, rejected the BCB’s request to determination its matches from India to Sri Lanka,” it added.

The tournament, which is owed to statesman connected February 7, is being co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka but each of Bangladesh’s radical fixtures were allocated to venues successful India.

The Tigers were scheduled to play connected the opening time of the tournament, connected February 7, erstwhile they would person faced the West Indies astatine Eden Gardens, Kolkata. They were acceptable to play 2 different group-stage games astatine the aforesaid venue earlier their last Group C fixture against Nepal astatine the Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai.

However, the BCB requested the ICC, connected January 4, to determination their fixtures retired of India.

The determination followed the abrupt removal of prima accelerated bowler Mustafizur Rahman from the Indian Premier League (IPL) upon instructions from the Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI), owed to the ongoing governmental tensions betwixt the 2 nations.

The ICC said its determination followed “an extended process to code concerns raised by the BCB regarding the hosting of its scheduled matches successful India.”

“Over a play of much than 3 weeks, the ICC engaged with the BCB done aggregate rounds of dialog conducted successful a transparent and constructive manner, including meetings held some via video league and in-person,” the ICC’s connection went connected to add.

“As portion of this process, the ICC reviewed the concerns cited by the BCB, commissioned and considered autarkic information assessments from interior and outer experts, and shared elaborate information and operational plans covering national and authorities arrangements, arsenic good arsenic enhanced and escalating information protocols for the event. These assurances were reiterated astatine respective stages, including during discussions involving the ICC Business Corporation (IBC) Board.”

The game’s governing assemblage said its assessments concluded that determination was “no credible oregon verifiable information menace to the Bangladesh nationalist team, officials oregon supporters successful India.”

“In airy of these findings, and aft cautious information of the broader implications, the ICC determined that it was not due to amend the published lawsuit schedule. The ICC besides noted the value of preserving the integrity and sanctity of the tourney schedule, safeguarding the interests of each participating teams and fans, and avoiding the constitution of precedents that could undermine the neutrality and fairness of ICC events.”

The ICC’s determination comes 2 days aft the BCB reiterated its stance connected not travelling to India for its radical matches.

The ICC asked the BCB to reappraisal its determination with the Bangladeshi authorities and springiness a effect wrong a day, pursuing which a last determination would beryllium made.

“Following its gathering connected Wednesday, the IBC Board requested the BCB to confirm, wrong a 24-hour timeframe, whether Bangladesh would enactment successful the tourney arsenic scheduled,” the ICC said.

“As nary confirmation was received wrong the stipulated deadline, the ICC proceeded successful enactment with its established governance and qualification processes to place a replacement squad .”</ p>

Scotland volition present play successful the T20 World Cup arsenic they are the highest-ranked T20I broadside not to primitively suffice for the tournament.

“We privation to play the World Cup, but we won’t play successful India. We volition support fighting,” Islam told reporters.

The BCB main said the ICC would basal to suffer if Bangladesh were expelled from the tournament.

“The ICC volition miss retired connected 200 cardinal radical watching the World Cup,” helium said.