Don’t feel secure in sending our team to India, next step depends on ICC’s response: BCB president
Aminul spoke to reporters a day after BCB formally requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to shift its T20 World Cup games out of India, a strong move triggered by pacer Mustafizur Rahman’s release from the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) instruction.
“You know that we, along with all the directors of the cricket board, held two meetings before taking this decision and at this moment we do not feel secure sending our team to India to play the World Cup,” Aminul said.
“So we wrote a letter to the ICC, and in the letter we clearly stated what we wanted to say. Because to us, security appeared to be a major concern and that is what we are following.
“We have sent an email to the ICC and we are expecting them to tell us to have a meeting with them soon where we will express our concern,” he said.
Aminul said BCB’s next step will depend on ICC’s response.
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“But what our next step will depend on the reply to the email we have sent. We are not communicating with BCCI because this is an ICC event. We are communicating with the ICC,” he said.
BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia, while announcing the diktat to release Rahman, had merely stated that it was being done because of “developments all around”, without explaining the specifics.
Bangladesh was scheduled to play three T20 World Cup matches in Kolkata and one in Mumbai.
Drawn in Group C, the team was due to face the West Indies in its opening match at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on February 7 and subsequently compete against England, Italy and Nepal.
Published on Jan 05, 2026
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