Bangladesh turmoil: ICC mulls back-up options to host women's T20 World Cup

[Tillu]

 

The UAE, India and Sri Lanka are in the shortlist to be back-up venues in case the ICC is forced to shift the women's T20 World Cup later this year out of Bangladesh.

 

 

Bangladesh has been rocked by anti-government agitations over the last few weeks, leading to several deaths. On Monday, prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and flew to India, with army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman assuming charge with a view to establishing an interim government. Among properties belonging to members of Hasina's Awami League party that were destroyed by the protestors was former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza's residence in Narail, roughly 150 kilometres from Dhaka.

 

 

As it stands, the ten-team women's tournament is scheduled to be held from October 3-20 but the ICC has informally jotted down alternative venues.

 

 

An ICC official said on Monday that the situation in Bangladesh was being monitored and all options had been kept open. "The ICC is closely monitoring developments in co-ordination with the Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB], their security agencies and our own independent security consultants," an ICC statement said. "Our priority is the safety and well-being of all participants."

 

 

Following Monday's developments, the governments of at least three countries that will be part of the event - Australia, England and India - have issued travel advisories to their citizens against visiting Bangladesh.

 

 

ESPNcricinfo has learned that the ICC has started working on options for the back-up venue. While India and Sri Lanka are well equipped to host a multi-nation tournament on short notice, some questions remain. With Sri Lanka, there is a threat of rain in October, while with India, the issue of visas for the Pakistan team could be a hurdle.

 

 

The BCB, meanwhile, has postponed the Bangladesh A team's departure for Pakistan for a series with the Shaheens "by 48 hours". The Dhaka airport was closed on Monday from 6pm to midnight, and it's not certain if the scheduled flight will take off on Tuesday.

 

 

"The BCB has confirmed to the PCB their men's 'A' cricket team's departure for Islamabad has been delayed by 48 hours due to unforeseen circumstances," the PCB said in a statement on Monday. "The BCB and PCB have been in regular contact for the past two days and will continue to work together on the revised tour itinerary with further details to follow in due course. The Bangladesh 'A' cricket team was due to arrive in Islamabad in the wee hours of Wednesday for two four-day and three 50-over matches from 10-27 August."

 

 

 

The Bangladesh senior team's departure for Pakistan is slotted for August 17 and, as things stand, there is no change in that. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the PCB has suggested to the BCB that the Bangladesh Test team be sent to Pakistan in advance so that they can train and practice in Rawalpindi before the Test series, which starts on August 21. The BCB has not responded to the PCB yet.

 

The last instance of a government abdicating or falling, in January 2007, led to the National Sports Council dissolving the BCB's board of directors, and appointing an interim body.

 

The last time the ICC moved a global tournament to a back-up venue was in 2021 when the men's T20 World Cup was shifted out of India to the UAE and Oman because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

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[nitinbwj]

Is ghatiya country main kuch host nahi hona chahiye. It's ruled by the goons now. 

[Frustrated]

BD's test tour of Ind (Sept 2024) is now in jeopardy.  BCCI should cancel this series now and host Afghanistan as replacement.  

[rollingstoned]

Saw videos of an Awami league MP being burnt alive, Mashrafe Mortaza former captain and sitting MPs house being burnt and Litton das' house facing the same fate too. 

Gonna be a long couple of nights. As far as political violence goes Bangladeshs make everyone else in the region look like Kindergarten kids. Their army had killed Mujibur Rehman and his entire family of 40+ people back in '71, save for Hasina who happened to be in India at the time. 

[neel roy]

BD achieved independence in 1971. In 2024 the govt established a quota that 30 perc of jobs will be reserved for sons and daughters of freedom fighters. Its one of the most populous nations in asia and after covid unemployment has risen. There were news that fake freedom fighter certificate were beong sold in open. 
 

Now consider this in comparison to India. India earned independence in 1947. 52 years after ie in 1999 if the government came out suddenly with a bill that 1/3 of jobs would be given to sons and daughters of freedom fighters of india and in a corrupt country like india certificates would have been easily faked what would happen. I guess the same.. there would be unrests and rioting. Same happened after mandal commission. 
 

So basically populist measures are good for short term but long term it backfires. Now the biggest issue is inspite of all these Haseena was a progressive government with strong ties to India, completely changed the economy, all foreign companies like h&m etc have factories there now. These started since she came to power. Now all will go up in smoke, hardline islamists will come to power and it ll be free for all

[Frustrated]

26 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Saw videos of an Awami league MP being burnt alive, Mashrafe Mortaza former captain and sitting MPs house being burnt and Litton das' house facing the same fate too. 

Gonna be a long couple of nights. As far as political violence goes Bangladeshs make everyone else in the region look like Kindergarten kids. Their army had killed Mujibur Rehman and his entire family of 40+ people back in '71, save for Hasina who happened to be in India at the time. 

While it's really sad.  There is nothing surprising.   It's a banana republic.  BD youths don't hv a sound knowledge on history.  (As radicalised as hell). Their major population is disrespectful towards India despite Ind's help in their freedom struggle.  They view Ind as an opportunist who made use of the crisis in 1971 to its own benefit and separated BD from Pak (Ind's arch rival).  Absolute scumbags.  They view Hasina as a puppet of Ind.  Even the overseas educated/semi- educated bangladeshis living in UK, US etc can be seen celebrating all this as if it's some sort of historic revolution.  

[rollingstoned]

7 minutes ago, neel roy said:

BD achieved independence in 1971. In 2024 the govt established a quota that 30 perc of jobs will be reserved for sons and daughters of freedom fighters. Its one of the most populous nations in asia and after covid unemployment has risen. There were news that fake freedom fighter certificate were beong sold in open. 
 

Now consider this in comparison to India. India earned independence in 1947. 52 years after ie in 1999 if the government came out suddenly with a bill that 1/3 of jobs would be given to sons and daughters of freedom fighters of india and in a corrupt country like india certificates would have been easily faked what would happen. I guess the same.. there would be unrests and rioting. Same happened after mandal commission. 
 

So basically populist measures are good for short term but long term it backfires. Now the biggest issue is inspite of all these Haseena was a progressive government with strong ties to India, completely changed the economy, all foreign companies like h&m etc have factories there now. These started since she came to power. Now all will go up in smoke, hardline islamists will come to power and it ll be free for all

That was the pretext for a western backed regime change/color revolution which started since last year's elections. Don't be so naive as to get taken in by the narrative that this takht badli only happened because of some new announcement of a govt job quota. 

[rollingstoned]

1 minute ago, Frustrated said:

While it's really sad.  There is nothing surprising.   It's a banana republic.  BD youths don't hv a sound knowledge on history.  (As radicalised as hell). Their major population is disrespectful towards India despite Ind's help in their freedom struggle.  They view Ind as an opportunist who made use of the crisis in 1971 to its own benefit and separated BD from Pak (Ind's arch rival).  Absolute scumbags.  They view Hasina as a puppet of Ind.  Even the overseas educated/semi- educated bangladeshis living in UK, US etc can be seen celebrating all this as if it's some sort of historic revolution.  

Well now they're welcome to undo the historical wrong that they think India had a part in by seperating them from their deeni cousins who see them as subhumans. 

[neel roy]

6 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

That was the pretext for a western backed regime change/color revolution which started since last year's elections. Don't be so naive as to get taken in by the narrative that this takht badli only happened because of some new announcement of a govt job quota. 

USA and West wont want BD to go pakistan way with military rule. Also BD will see chinese influx now. A huge amount of west assets including textile and pharma is locked in BD. They dont want that to blow up. Haseena even agreed to USA request to build an airforce base in BD. Its all the more points out to Chinese hand.. simple 

[New guy]

16 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

While it's really sad.  There is nothing surprising.   It's a banana republic.  BD youths don't hv a sound knowledge on history.  (As radicalised as hell). Their major population is disrespectful towards India despite Ind's help in their freedom struggle.  They view Ind as an opportunist who made use of the crisis in 1971 to its own benefit and separated BD from Pak (Ind's arch rival).  Absolute scumbags.  They view Hasina as a puppet of Ind.  Even the overseas educated/semi- educated bangladeshis living in UK, US etc can be seen celebrating all this as if it's some sort of historic revolution.  

BD youth are celebrating all over reddit etc. there is no nation in modern time which has survived this kind of anarchy. Even iraq backed by US has gone into complete meltdown. 

 

Stability is extremely important for the modern nation. Bangladesh will never recover from this, they are doomed. 

[rollingstoned]

16 minutes ago, neel roy said:

USA and West wont want BD to go pakistan way with military rule. Also BD will see chinese influx now. A huge amount of west assets including textile and pharma is locked in BD. They dont want that to blow up. Haseena even agreed to USA request to build an airforce base in BD. Its all the more points out to Chinese hand.. simple 

She didn't actually, she turned them down. That McMartin Island was one of the things which might have set this off. 

West and USA want a Bangladesh that acts in their interest, whether it is through military rule or other proxies. Their investments in Bangladesh are not of the kind that cannot be shifted somewhere else or give it leverage against destabilization in the same way that Taiwan has with semiconductors. 

Chinese are not behind this, they have more to lose infact.

Edited August 6 by rollingstoned

[neel roy]

4 minutes ago, New guy said:

BD youth are celebrating all over reddit etc. there is no nation in modern time which has survived this kind of anarchy. Even iraq backed by US has gone into complete meltdown. 

 

Stability is extremely important for the modern nation. Bangladesh will never recover from this, they are doomed. 

True. Now what will happen is china will pour billions in funding to new govt with promises and basically an indian landlocked country will become a chinese hegemony. These youths who have been rioting has been promised jobs and apparently were given free alcohol food and what not in various shelters from where this walk towards parliament started. Half of them were on drugs as well and were told to burn everything down..

 

[neel roy]

5 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

She didn't actually, she turned them down. That McMartin Island was one of the things which might have set this off. 

West and USA want a Bangladesh that acts in their interest, whether it is through military rule or other proxies. Their investments in Bangladesh are not of the kind that cannot be shifted somewhere else or give it leverage against destabilization in the same way that Taiwan has with semiconductors. 

Chinese are not behind this, they have more to lose infact.

No way USA will get stronghold with Jamatis in power. If BNP or Jamatis come to power USA embassy will be burned. USA dont care about Bd or india. They care about their own interest. Usa is basically run by hedge funds. Half of political donations come from hedge fund behemoths like izzy englanders and ken griffins of the world. For Most top companies their biggest shareholders are either institutional investors like pension funds or hedge funds. These funds targets asymmetric returns via dislocation in stable environment. So they dont want an unstable or uncertain region. Bipartisan across party lines USA have followed this..

Edited August 6 by neel roy

[Lone Wolf]

4 minutes ago, neel roy said:

No way USA will get stronghold with Jamatis in power. If BNP or Jamatis come to power USA embassy will be burned. USA dont care about Bd or india. They care about their own interest 

US has even more ulterior motives when it comes to BD and North East...  Hasina actually exposed the plot to create another East Timor

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/story/sheikh-hasin-christian-state-foreign-airbase-bangladesh-awami-league-dhaka-india-2544410-2024-05-27

 

[Number]

46 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

While it's really sad.  There is nothing surprising.   It's a banana republic.  BD youths don't hv a sound knowledge on history.  (As radicalised as hell). Their major population is disrespectful towards India despite Ind's help in their freedom struggle.  They view Ind as an opportunist who made use of the crisis in 1971 to its own benefit and separated BD from Pak (Ind's arch rival).  Absolute scumbags.  They view Hasina as a puppet of Ind.  Even the overseas educated/semi- educated bangladeshis living in UK, US etc can be seen celebrating all this as if it's some sort of historic revolution.  

I was talking to a Bangladeshi taxi driver sometime back, who was abusing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and saying he struck a deal with India to give him Bangladesh and he let Assam and Half of West Bengal and Bihar be with India. He said Assam and half of WB and Bihar could have been part of Bangladesh. 

I just couldn't my laughter. Such delusion.

Edited August 6 by Number

[rollingstoned]

48 minutes ago, neel roy said:

No way USA will get stronghold with Jamatis in power. If BNP or Jamatis come to power USA embassy will be burned. USA dont care about Bd or india. They care about their own interest. Usa is basically run by hedge funds. Half of political donations come from hedge fund behemoths like izzy englanders and ken griffins of the world. For Most top companies their biggest shareholders are either institutional investors like pension funds or hedge funds. These funds targets asymmetric returns via dislocation in stable environment. So they dont want an unstable or uncertain region. Bipartisan across party lines USA have followed this..

game thoda aur pechida hai bhai, lot of moving parts to this. 

Those hedge funds etc are a part of the American establishment which itself has many power centres and is not a monolith. Ye jo Bang mein hua usse China ka beda gark hua hai, fayda nai. It has implications for our N east too, which was one of the reasons we separated East pakistan from West in '71.

 

 

 

Edited August 6 by rollingstoned

[singhvivek141]

1 hour ago, rollingstoned said:

She didn't actually, she turned them down. That McMartin Island was one of the things which might have set this off. 

West and USA want a Bangladesh that acts in their interest, whether it is through military rule or other proxies. Their investments in Bangladesh are not of the kind that cannot be shifted somewhere else or give it leverage against destabilization in the same way that Taiwan has with semiconductors. 

Chinese are not behind this, they have more to lose infact.

China has one advantage though, Indian military will focus more on Bangladesh border.

If any conflict happens, US might get involved using Bangladesh as proxy...China will get freeway to Taiwan.

[rollingstoned]

44 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

China has one advantage though, Indian military will focus more on Bangladesh border.

If any conflict happens, US might get involved using Bangladesh as proxy...China will get freeway to Taiwan.

They wanted to use Bangladesh to keep an eye on both China and then India. 

Anyways since COVID we are suffering a manpower shortage in the armed forces fo around 2lac personnel due to no recruitment for 2 yrs. Border with Bang is as big if not bigger than the one with Pakistan. 

[Ultimate_Game]

7 hours ago, New guy said:

BD youth are celebrating all over reddit etc. there is no nation in modern time which has survived this kind of anarchy. Even iraq backed by US has gone into complete meltdown. 

 

Stability is extremely important for the modern nation. Bangladesh will never recover from this, they are doomed. 

 

Worry is the impact it'll have on India and the minorities who're unfortunate to be there.

[gattaca]

11 hours ago, neel roy said:

No way USA will get stronghold with Jamatis in power. If BNP or Jamatis come to power USA embassy will be burned. USA dont care about Bd or india. They care about their own interest. Usa is basically run by hedge funds. Half of political donations come from hedge fund behemoths like izzy englanders and ken griffins of the world. For Most top companies their biggest shareholders are either institutional investors like pension funds or hedge funds. These funds targets asymmetric returns via dislocation in stable environment. So they dont want an unstable or uncertain region. Bipartisan across party lines USA have followed this..

Arab spring was basically their doing lol. They ousted many leaders in Africa and installed their own. Egypt got sisi and brotherhood for some time and they wanted because of the canal. They can work with anyone.