The motion comes after India pushed quick bowler Mustafizur Rahman to withdraw from IPL because of political tensions
Bangladesh will request their matches at subsequent month’s T20 World Cup be performed in Sri Lanka. Picture: AFP
DHAKA:
Bangladesh will request their matches at subsequent month’s T20 World Cup be performed in Sri Lanka, after India compelled a Bangladeshi participant to give up the Indian Premier League.
“We is not going to settle for any insult to Bangladeshi cricket, cricketers and Bangladesh beneath any circumstances,” stated Asif Nazrul, Youth and Sports activities Adviser within the interim authorities, in a press release carried by the state-run BSS information company Sunday.
“The times of slavery are over.”
Bangladesh quick bowler Mustafizur Rahman was on Saturday launched by the Kolkata Knight Riders after the IPL staff had been “suggested” by Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) to take action, following tensions between the neighbouring nations.
Nazrul stated he had ordered the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to write down to the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC).
“The board ought to inform that, the place a Bangladeshi cricketer can’t play in India regardless of being contracted, all the Bangladeshi cricket staff can’t really feel protected going to play within the World Cup,” he wrote.
“I’ve additionally instructed the board to request that Bangladesh’s World Cup matches ought to be held in Sri Lanka.”
The T20 World Cup begins on February 7, co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh are scheduled to play their 4 group matches in India.
Pakistan will play all their matches in Sri Lanka, a part of a deal that enables each India and Pakistan to play at impartial venues in multi-nation tournaments.
Political relations between India and Bangladesh soured after a mass rebellion in Dhaka in 2024 toppled then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, a detailed ally of New Delhi.
India’s overseas ministry final month condemned what it referred to as “unremitting hostility towards minorities” in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s interim chief, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, has accused India of exaggerating the size of the violence.
BCB president Aminul Islam Bulbul stated the board will maintain an emergency assembly in a while Sunday.
“The dignity and safety of our cricketers are our prime priorities, and we are going to take a choice on the acceptable time conserving these in thoughts”, he informed reporters late Saturday.
Mustafizur, who has beforehand performed within the IPL for different groups, was snapped up at public sale in December by Kolkata for greater than $1 million.
However BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia stated that “contemplating latest developments” Kolkata had been “suggested to launch” the 30-year-old.
The 2026 IPL season begins on March 26.
Nazrul stated he would additionally ask that the IPL be blocked from Bangladeshi broadcasters.
“I’ve requested the Data and Broadcasting Adviser to cease the broadcasting of the IPL match in Bangladesh,” he stated.
Kolkata, majority-owned by Bollywood famous person Shah Rukh Khan, subsequently stated that Mustafizur’s “launch has been carried out following due course of and consultations”.
