Overview
- Two BPL games were postponed after players failed to show, a boycott led by the CWAB in protest at director Najmul Islam’s remarks about withholding compensation and demanding money back from cricketers.
- The BCB stripped Islam of the finance committee chair and he issued a public apology, but he remains a director under a show-cause notice and disciplinary process, and matches resumed Friday.
- The BCB says it will not send the team to India for the T20 World Cup and has formally asked the ICC to relocate its group fixtures to Sri Lanka, a move the ICC has not agreed to so far.
- Reports say the ICC will send a delegation to Bangladesh within days for one-on-one talks to settle participation and venue issues after earlier virtual discussions failed to resolve them.
- Bangladesh’s World Cup schedule currently lists three games in Kolkata and one in Mumbai in February, while ICC-linked security assessments have been described as low to moderate risk.