Scotland replace Bangladesh at T20 World Cup 2026 (Update @ post#3202)

[RexRex]

Next step is Pakistan pulling out. Namibia have packed their bags and are waiting for the word.

Apologies, I meant Uganda here. Namibia are already in the tournament.

 

[Devadwal]

Next step is Pakistan pulling out. Namibia have packed their bags and are waiting for the word.

Uganada. Uganada is equal level to Pakistan so replace by them is understandable. Jeetna dono ko ni hai World cup.

 

[BDfanforever]

All the BD Cricket YouTubers are furious. BD not playing WT20 means they too will lose bucket load of money. Serves them right, sick and tired of watching BD failing to chase down modest totals in crucial games.

 

[Sachin fan]

All the BD Cricket YouTubers are furious. BD not playing WT20 means they too will lose bucket load of money. Serves them right, sick and tired of watching BD failing to chase down modest totals in crucial games.

And boycotting major tournaments will magically improve your cricket?

 

[LongHorn]

All the BD Cricket YouTubers are furious. BD not playing WT20 means they too will lose bucket load of money. Serves them right, sick and tired of watching BD failing to chase down modest totals in crucial games.

They are concerned about their income only

 

[Sachin fan]

They are concerned about their income only

Unlike the other pseudo patriots, who are living overseas, who want their country and cricket to be destroyed because of fake ego, by boycotting prestigious tournaments.

 

[rballer]

Next step is Pakistan pulling out. Namibia have packed their bags and are waiting for the word.

Oh I agree. I want pak to pull out.

I am of opinion that Pak should forget international cricket, and focus on domestic only. They have found a formula there, use that to keep people entertained.

Ultimately, it should be India, England, Australia, Bharat, BJP, BCCI, India II, Punjab 11, and whatever else India can scrape together that should participate in World Cups.

We neither have international caliber players or ICC standing to dictate anything at that level so forget this bs. Play PSL and promote it. It’s like what USA does with NBA. Internationally they never even send their good players as they consider it not worth it.

 

[RexRex]

Oh I agree. I want pak to pull out.

I am of opinion that Pak should forget international cricket, and focus on domestic only. They have found a formula there, use that to keep people entertained.

Ultimately, it should be India, England, Australia, Bharat, BJP, BCCI, India II, Punjab 11, and whatever else India can scrape together that should participate in World Cups.

We neither have international caliber players or ICC standing to dictate anything at that level so forget this bs. Play PSL and promote it. It’s like what USA does with NBA. Internationally they never even send their good players as they consider it not worth it.

If that's what you want, may your wishes come true. Naqvi is a man of principles so I think he may pull out some surprises yet.

 

[Vikram1989]

And boycotting major tournaments will magically improve your cricket?

Imagine the fire in the belly to catch the prey and kick its back .That too in the eyes of an ultimate predator aka Bengal tiger

 

[BouncerGuy]

On the upcoming World Cup, Former South African Cricketer, Jonty Rhodes, said:

“You always think, let's keep politics out of sport. But I've come from South Africa, where the government was excluded from SAN sporting and economic sanctions because they were hoping to put the local community hoping to put pressure on the government change, and I saw that change, so you can't exclude politics from sports, sadly. For Bangladesh and for the players, it's very tough because what a great stage they are missing.”

 

[saimayubera]

Oh I agree. I want pak to pull out.

I am of opinion that Pak should forget international cricket, and focus on domestic only. They have found a formula there, use that to keep people entertained.

Ultimately, it should be India, England, Australia, Bharat, BJP, BCCI, India II, Punjab 11, and whatever else India can scrape together that should participate in World Cups.

We neither have international caliber players or ICC standing to dictate anything at that level so forget this bs. Play PSL and promote it. It’s like what USA does with NBA. Internationally they never even send their good players as they consider it not worth it.

Except for the fact that the NBA is the most prosperous basketball league in the world as well as USA being the best basketball team in the world.

Pakistan/PSL fulfill none of those criteria.

 

[ahsan17]

Bangladesh pulling out their national team in response to an IPL decision is ridiculous. If you don't realise that, I can't help you.

Frankly it's irrelevant. In the past, ICC has had the standard that if a country's government disallows their team from traveling to another country, regardless of the reason, then ICC has to make alternate arrangements. India has used that excuse plenty of times.

 

[rballer]

Except for the fact that the NBA is the most prosperous basketball league in the world as well as USA being the best basketball team in the world.

Pakistan/PSL fulfill none of those criteria.

Except no one cares what you say.

 

[Hikaru]

Except no one cares what you say.

Doesn't matter, he is right. A phissadi league in a pointless market cannot be compared to the NBA.

 

[Hitman]

Unlike the other pseudo patriots, who are living overseas, who want their country and cricket to be destroyed because of fake ego, by boycotting prestigious tournaments.

When you have no skin in the game, you can wish for anything you want.

 

[rballer]

Doesn't matter, he is right. A phissadi league in a pointless market cannot be compared to the NBA.

I neither have patience or tolerance to explain Indians i was discussing the concept of expanding local league instead of comparing the two.

Does your mind ever come out of money? Profit? Or is that the only language you speak ?

Let me speak your Language then….
PSL $$$, NBA $$$$$$$$$
But pak should focus on PSL to turn the $$$ to $$$$ and entertain home crowd. Thats what I was explaining.

 

[saimayubera]

Except no one cares what you say.

Why quote the white man's league NBA instead of the Chinese CBA which is closer to PSL?

You yourself have answered your question about white approval/acceptance.

 

[Romali_rotti]

All because of getting butt hurt over a Bangladeshi kitty cat getting dropped by his IPL team awwww

Thank gawd they didn't enter India, don't want or need them but thoughts with our brother Das....

Well done kitty Kats you lost a good amount of revenue and on the way to bankrupting the cricket infrastructure, play stupid games win wonderful stupid prizes.. Mashallaaaahhhh

 

[saimayubera]

I neither have patience or tolerance to explain Indians i was discussing the concept of expanding local league instead of comparing the two.

Does your mind ever come out of money? Profit? Or is that the only language you speak ?

Let me speak your Language then….
PSL $$$, NBA $$$$$$$$$
But pak should focus on PSL to turn the $$$ to $$$$ and entertain home crowd. Thats what I was explaining.

How can you turn $$$ to $$$$$ when the Pakistani audience doesn't have the $$$$$?

NBA is backed by the biggest basketball economy as well as the best basketball talent.

Pakistan is neither of the above.

Nor are Pakistani players the best in the world.

Nor is their revenue top most in the world. India, England and Australia are all richer boards. And not only that SA, USA, UAE, WI all have IPL money boosting them. NZ and Europe league soon.

Out of all the countries which play cricket only Afghanistan has a lower GDP pci than Pakistan.

 

[Hikaru]

I neither have patience or tolerance to explain Indians i was discussing the concept of expanding local league instead of comparing the two.

Does your mind ever come out of money? Profit? Or is that the only language you speak ?

Let me speak your Language then….
PSL $$$, NBA $$$$$$$$$
But My PSL is not enough, the PCB ship will still sink.

Good explanation, but that wasn't my point.

PSL isn't enough to revive PCB's sinking ship. The idea that Pakistani Cricket can be self-sustaining at this point overlooks the country's realities. It's a very pointless market and the idea of detaching from the ICC only leads to a slow but inevitable death of Pakistan Cricket.

 

[rballer]

How can you turn $$$ to $$$$$ when the Pakistani audience doesn't have the $$$$$?

NBA is backed by the biggest basketball economy as well as the best basketball talent.

Pakistan is neither of the above.

Nor are Pakistani players the best in the world.

Nor is their revenue top most in the world. India, England and Australia are all richer boards. And not only that SA, USA, UAE, WI all have IPL money boosting them. NZ and Europe league soon.

Out of all the countries which play cricket only Afghanistan has a lower GDP pci than Pakistan.

Tell me more about these white Countries. You are good at this. Entertaining.
Love the cheer leader. Tell me more of their accomplishments.

 

[saimayubera]

Tell me more about these white Countries. You are good at this. Entertaining.
Love the cheer leader. Tell me more of their accomplishments.

The fact that you are speaking their language and follow a sport created by them is enough.

 

[rballer]

Good explanation, but that wasn't my point.

PSL isn't enough to revive PCB's sinking ship. The idea that Pakistani Cricket can be self-sustaining at this point overlooks the country's realities. It's a very pointless market and the idea of detaching from the ICC only leads to a slow but inevitable death of Pakistan Cricket.

I don’t know PSLs accounting books.

But a simple google search tells that PSL generated $100 Million in revenue last year. More proof is that they expanded by adding two more teams and increased their team cap. All of those are markers for profit.

Just appreciate the effort and success from objective point of view. I have no problem in admitting IPL is great entertainment and money making machine.

 

[Romali_rotti]

But a simple google search tells that PSL generated $100 Million in revenue last year..

Wow that seems more than the entire Pakistan economy. Impressive..:

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

The fact that you are speaking their language and follow a sport created by them is enough.

Wow, what logic. Language is a medium to communicate with each other, didn't they teach you that in 'sarkari' school? Or do you actually want him to write in Urdu here?

 

[saimayubera]

Good explanation, but that wasn't my point.

PSL isn't enough to revive PCB's sinking ship. The idea that Pakistani Cricket can be self-sustaining at this point overlooks the country's realities. It's a very pointless market and the idea of detaching from the ICC only leads to a slow but inevitable death of Pakistan Cricket.

And PSL will shrink further.

Pakistanis don't seem to realize this (or has their head stuck in the sand ostrich style) that India's dominance in cricket is only in beginning stages. India's economy will keep on growing at a decent clip for the next 3-4 decades.

What this means is inevitable IPL expansion with even more money. No way is IPL going to remain a 10 team league when much less populated countries have 20/30 team leagues. People might say there is "history" etc but history begins somewhere.

Also the other IPL affiliated leagues will also expand.

That means PSL will hardly get any good players.

Already happening when retired players like Samit Patel are able to dominate PSL and the Pakistani players who dominate in PSL are complete flops playing against SENAI.

Pakistan as a country's best bet was to pursue friendly ties with India because there are two fields Pakistan can do well in which is controlled completely by India and there is no China/USA to help them there:

1. Cricket
2. Hindi/Urdu media (music and movies)

Good ties with India would have meant

1. Pakistani players playing in IPL
2. Pakistanis getting to play bilaterals
3. PSL getting IPL money and being of higher quality. All these mill owners can't compete with Indian money.
4. Pakistani musicians/actors getting access to the Indian market. Even small time OTT actors make more money than Pakistani superstars.

 

[Hikaru]

I don’t know PSLs accounting books.

But a simple google search tells that PSL generated $100 Million in revenue last year. More proof is that they expanded by adding two more teams and increased their team cap. All of those are markers for profit.

Just appreciate the effort and success from objective point of view. I have no problem in admitting IPL is great entertainment and money making machine.

That 100 million was contribution to the Pakistani economy, very different from revenue, but good luck if you beleive it can work at the moment. I would say we are atleast a decade away from those projections.

 

[rballer]

That 100 million was contribution to the Pakistani economy, very different from revenue, but good luck if you beleive it can work at the moment. I would say we are atleast a decade away from those projections.

Dont need luck.

We got this!

 

[rballer]

And PSL will shrink further.

lots of words that I didn’t read but let me guess it was:

Money, money, money, GDP, Economy Bhagwan, white people are amazing, something about Pakistan with no money, money, money, money.

Pretty sure I hit all of your main points.

 

[Prince of Dorne]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015179281970663479

Valued cricketing nation Pretty sure whoever wrote this tweet didn't do it with straight face.

 

[Prince of Dorne]

So good news for BD fans is that we don't have to watch bunch of BD vs Zim, BD vs IRE, or BD vs Afg matches any time soon in the near future.

Sri Lanka with its political instability and some Tamil issues is really also not far away from being blacklisted by BCCI.

Watching BD play is like receiving a medieval punishment. Nobody deserves to suffer through all that. I am happy for you lot.

 

[Prince of Dorne]

You are a glass half full guy aren't you Trying to present a disaster into some kind of achievement, and creating an artificial worry on behalf of Indians

You are wrong. I am worried sick and devastated by this, in fact cried myself to sleep last night, although Khushi ke aansu the

 

[Mas-LFC]

They are concerned about their income only

Most of them are awami league dalals. I ignore them. few of them ytubers are decent patriots.

 

[Sachin fan]

Most of them are awami league dalals. I ignore them. few of them ytubers are decent patriots.

Being patriots means destroying your country and cricket because of fake ego.

And funniest thing is that these pseudo patriots live overseas in different countries after abandoning Bangladesh.

Want amazing patriots you guys are. No one is fooled.

 

[Mas-LFC]

Being patriots means destroying your country and cricket because of fake ego.

And funniest thing is that these pseudo patriots live overseas in different countries after abandoning Bangladesh.

Want amazing patriots you guys are. No one is fooled.

Standing up for your rights, dignity and honour - doesn’t mean you’re destroying anything.

This isnt about egos so dont get twisted.

If you’re hindutva nationalist threatening BD muslim players how are they meant to risk their lives to go play in your unsafe country?

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

I have no doubt that in the nxt 48hours or so, pakistan will be announcing they withdraw/boycott from WC T20 2025.

- Was so looking forward to Bangladesh matches tobe moved to SL and to see the 'Naagin' Naach....any ways, maybe next time.

 

[Sachin fan]

Standing up for your rights, dignity and honour - doesn’t mean you’re destroying anything.

This isnt about egos so dont get twisted.

If you’re hindutva nationalist threatening BD muslim players how are they meant to risk their lives to go play in your unsafe country?

Going against your biggest trade partner is 100% destroying yourself. Whether you like it or not, it's reality.

Standing up for your rights and dignity by partnering with a country which wanted to destroy your culture and language? That's dignity? The ones who are still using you just as a weapon against India and don't consider you if any value, that's dignity?

And the players clearly don't think there was a threat, they wanted to play

The ICC investigation said there was no threat.

The ICC committee said that all your board said about the threat was Fizz getting out of IPL. Which has nothing to do with security and all about ego.

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

There have been way more lynchings of Indian muslims and for many many years now in India.
By that logic, neither pakistan nor bangladesh should have played in India since Modi took power

There are many videos of Indian politicians calling for genocide of minorities since 2015

I challenge you to show a single mainstream Bangladeshi Minister or politician calling for massacring minorities or hindus

Attacks on hindus in Bangladesh are isolated and happened in recent times.

so bro LongHorn,

IF India was the worst country for muslims, why do Bangladeshis display their long distance running, sprinting, high and long jumping, pole vaulting talents at the indo-bangladesh borders, at great risk to life and limb, cross over illegaly into India?
- Why do indian muslims not queue up at every pak and bangladesh embassy/consulate in every country and ask for asylum into the greatest example of paradise/jannat for muslims, ie Pakistan and Bangladesh?
- or why do they not tear down the border fences and queue up at Wagah-attari to enter pak or sabroom/dawki/petrapole to enter BD?
- why dont the same Bangladeshi Rohingay people enter Nepal, or bhutan for eg illegally and seem to concentrate all their energies to infest India?
- When are your reaching out to your 'indian brethren' and housing them in your country?

or at least do you have the basic conscience to reach out to your Bangladeshi Cousins in India and call them back ?

 

[rpant_gabba]

C

so bro LongHorn,

IF India was the worst country for muslims, why do Bangladeshis display their long distance running, sprinting, high and long jumping, pole vaulting talents at the indo-bangladesh borders, at great risk to life and limb, cross over illegaly into India?
- Why do indian muslims not queue up at every pak and bangladesh embassy/consulate in every country and ask for asylum into the greatest example of paradise/jannat for muslims, ie Pakistan and Bangladesh?
- or why do they not tear down the border fences and queue up at Wagah-attari to enter pak or sabroom/dawki/petrapole to enter BD?
- why dont the same Bangladeshi Rohingay people enter Nepal, or bhutan for eg illegally and seem to concentrate all their energies to infest India?
- When are your reaching out to your 'indian brethren' and housing them in your country?

or at least do you have the basic conscience to reach out to your Bangladeshi Cousins in India and call them back ?

Cruel bro. Truth. But cruel. I love it

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

Standing up for your rights, dignity and honour - doesn’t mean you’re destroying anything.

This isnt about egos so dont get twisted.

If you’re hindutva nationalist threatening BD muslim players how are they meant to risk their lives to go play in your unsafe country?

Champ - Indian Armed forces blood was spilt on you soil in 1971, so that you could enjoy the first three words that are highlighted, in addition to you enjoying speaking your own language.
the alphabets 'Tva' is a suffix just like in the word - motherhood, the essence of being a mother is mother hood or fatherhood or in like brotherly or sisterly, similarly Matrootva is the essence of being a mother (matru=mother) and pitrootva= the essence of being a father - the entymological origins of the suffix 'tva' is derived from originally Sanskrit thru Prakrit, Pali and finally into Hindi-the original language, essence and nuance of the civilization of the Indian subcontinent - weather you like it or not, agree or deny it or before this post is moderated....(and also from which almost every major language of the indian subcontinent derives its sentence structure - including your's - Bangla language)
...similarly Hindutva is the essence of being a Hindu, one can be a proud Hindu which has nothing to do with downing anyother religion, so go easy on the whole 'hindutva nationalist' gravy train.
Lastly, - please feel free to reply to post #3398 - in addition to thsi one.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Mohammad Yousaf speaking about the ongoing situation:
“Very sad to see a cricket-loving nation like Bangladesh being deprived of cricket due to security concerns not being addressed.”

“When similar concerns were raised earlier, a neutral venue was approved.”

“Standards cannot change from country to country. ICC must act as the International Cricket Council, not appear to serve the interests of any single board. Fairness and consistency are the foundation of global cricket.”

 

[Mas-LFC]

Going against your biggest trade partner is 100% destroying yourself. Whether you like it or not, it's reality.

Standing up for your rights and dignity by partnering with a country which wanted to destroy your culture and language? That's dignity? The ones who are still using you just as a weapon against India and don't consider you if any value, that's dignity?

And the players clearly don't think there was a threat, they wanted to play

The ICC investigation said there was no threat.

The ICC committee said that all your board said about the threat was Fizz getting out of IPL. Which has nothing to do with security and all about ego.

Blah di blah.

The fact is you're ignoring the important issue. Your extremists threatened Fizz, if you cant give one player security. How will you be able to give security to 15 players which of them 14 are muslims, plus coaching staffs?

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

so bro LongHorn,

IF India was the worst country for muslims, why do Bangladeshis display their long distance running, sprinting, high and long jumping, pole vaulting talents at the indo-bangladesh borders, at great risk to life and limb, cross over illegaly into India?
- Why do indian muslims not queue up at every pak and bangladesh embassy/consulate in every country and ask for asylum into the greatest example of paradise/jannat for muslims, ie Pakistan and Bangladesh?
- or why do they not tear down the border fences and queue up at Wagah-attari to enter pak or sabroom/dawki/petrapole to enter BD?
- why dont the same Bangladeshi Rohingay people enter Nepal, or bhutan for eg illegally and seem to concentrate all their energies to infest India?
- When are your reaching out to your 'indian brethren' and housing them in your country?

or at least do you have the basic conscience to reach out to your Bangladeshi Cousins in India and call them back ?

bro @LongHorn

Awesome chance to get off the mark in fantastic fashion by reaching out to Bro @Bhaag Viru Bhaag for this Noble purpose!

And enlist him in your armed forces.

Being a teesri grade School kickout, dude has displayed on this thread - cannot read or comprehend logic and hence by extension cannot read any gun operating manual.

Voh Bandook ulta pakde ya seedha, minimum ek desh ka 100 percent Fayda Zaroor hoga

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

bro @LongHorn

Awesome chance to get off the mark in fantastic fashion by reaching out to Bro @Bhaag Viru Bhaag for this Noble purpose!

And enlist him in your armed forces.

Being a teesri grade School kickout, dude has displayed on this thread - cannot read or comprehend logic and hence by extension cannot read any gun operating manual.

Voh Bandook ulta pakde ya seedha, minimum ek desh ka 100 percent Fayda Zaroor hoga

What happened now? Why are you crying again? Did @LongHorn's horn get stuck somewhere? @Devadwal, please translate this post for me. Thanks in advance.

 

[Romali_rotti]

Blah di blah.

The fact is you're ignoring the important issue. Your extremists threatened Fizz, if you cant give one player security. How will you be able to give security to 15 players which of them 14 are muslims, plus coaching staffs?

Read SF's post again with your eyes open

 

[Kianig89]

Del

 

[SportsWarrior]

Actually till now I believed the PCB to be the most worthless and incompetent cricket board in the world. I was clearly wrong.

Hope Bangladeshis enjoy watching the tournament on TV! The whole tournament will be crippled if not for their viewership. ​

BD fans and the players themselves have plenty of experience watching better part of the tournament from their couches over the years. So it shouldn’t be an issue at all

 

[globetrotter]

Lying once again

1) ICC investigation concluded there is no security concern. So timing comes after that and wasn't even required to be discussed.

2) The only point BCB brought again and again was Fizz being removed in a private league which has nothing to do with security issue.

Does this topic has the record for most lies on a topic from Bangladeshis and Pakistanis? Should start tracking this record.

Correct... Sheikh haseena is a Bangladeshi national living in India safely since last 1 year..... therefore contention raised by BCB is false, baseless and by way of an afterthought. The stand taken by BCB purely an emotional

 

[SportsWarrior]

My sympathies to the actual cricketers. Not a fan of any professional losing livelihood due to some morons at the top. Some welfare scrounger from Toronto may have 0
Impact as life goes along copy pasting scorecards but not good for the cricket community of Bangladesh . Also sympathies to the sane cricket fans of Bangladesh however less the number is.

Agreed, welfare queens who scam for life don’t realize professionals who actually world hard to earn their living only have few years to earn living for life. Lowlifes will stand in the corner and encourage productive members of society ruining their lives while sucking the life out their community

 

[SportsWarrior]

so replacing Bangaldesh with scotland is hassle free and easy to arrange but swapping of group is not. make it make sense

Swapping requires other teams to agree for change. Both SL and IRL said no and showed BD its place in the world

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

Swapping requires other teams to agree for change. Both SL and IRL said no and showed BD its place in the world

you are making this up right? Swapping requires other teams to agree LOL you guys have habbit of making up rules out of thin air

 

[BreadPakoda]

Didn’t the Australian under 19 team get replaced by Ireland when they refused to travel to Bangladesh for the 2016 WC?

Not the first time something like this is happening.

 

[rpant_gabba]

you are making this up right? Swapping requires other teams to agree LOL you guys have habbit of making up rules out of thin air

The vote was 14-2 bro. Wake up and smell the coffee

 

[jnaveen1980]

Mohammad Yousaf speaking about the ongoing situation:
“Very sad to see a cricket-loving nation like Bangladesh being deprived of cricket due to security concerns not being addressed.”

“When similar concerns were raised earlier, a neutral venue was approved.”

“Standards cannot change from country to country. ICC must act as the International Cricket Council, not appear to serve the interests of any single board. Fairness and consistency are the foundation of global cricket.”

Pakistan was given option of playing in neutral venue. What is the credible threat he is talking about. Even Pakistan has no threat here. It was a *** for tat move. ICC accepted it. But Bangaldesh pulling this stunt over IPL is a massive political reach regardless of the circmstances that led to Fiz's ouster. Every team can askwilly nilly. Hope these bozos that talk about double standard try to understand at a basic level.

 

[Markhor]

Swapping requires other teams to agree for change. Both SL and IRL said no and showed BD its place in the world

They said no because turkeys don't vote for Christmas. These boards are massively dependent on ICC revenues and maintaining political ties with India, so there was zero possibility of anything other than a 14-2 vote.

The so-called independent security assessment was about as credible and neutral as a student marking their own homework.

The ICC Chairman was never going to accept an assessment declaring the presence of any security risk against Bangladeshi cricketers because that would be an implicit criticism of abba ji AKA the Home Minister and his ruling party.

For once, can you guys put down the script and use some critical thinking ?

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

The vote was 14-2 bro. Wake up and smell the coffee

This did nt need voting. Gimmick performed by ICC. do they group teams with vote? if not then how come swapping requires vote? we Smell bigotry . Nothing else

 

[rpant_gabba]

Disappointing really.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/bangladesh-won-t-challenge-icc-decision-to-cut-them-from-t20-world-cup-1520889

@DeadlyVenom @KingKhanWC @Major @sweep_shot @Mainul @LongHorn @BDfanforever Why hasn't BDs taken further action. vote below. Mods @The Bald Eagle @BouncerGuy can we set up a poll?

1) CAS will rule against them.

2) CAS cannot rule on the matter.

See UEFA information on what CAS can rule on.

Court of Arbitration for Sport

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www.uefa.com

>>The CAS is only able to intervene in its capacity as an ordinary court of arbitration if the dispute in question does not fall within the competences of a UEFA organ.<<

3) BD feels that after winning the battle at CAS they might lose the war.

4) BDs are all bark and no bite

 

[Markhor]

Pakistan was given option of playing in neutral venue. What is the credible threat he is talking about. Even Pakistan has no threat here. It was a *** for tat move. ICC accepted it. But Bangaldesh pulling this stunt over IPL is a massive political reach regardless of the circmstances that led to Fiz's ouster. Every team can askwilly nilly. Hope these bozos that talk about double standard try to understand at a basic level.

Maybe it's worth reading the statements from your politicians.

BJP leader Sangeet Som said on Dec 31st according to India Today that Mustafizur would not be safe to leave the airport if he was allowed to feature in IPL.

He wasn't the only one. That sounds a clear security threat but I guess not when the security assessment is overseen by some

 

[Sachin fan]

Correct... Sheikh haseena is a Bangladeshi national living in India safely since last 1 year..... therefore contention raised by BCB is false, baseless and by way of an afterthought. The stand taken by BCB purely an emotional

Nothing to do with this situation, nice try though

 

[rpant_gabba]

This did nt need voting. Gimmick performed by ICC. do they group teams with vote? if not then how come swapping requires vote? we Smell bigotry . Nothing else

So ICC can act without members consent?

 

[Sachin fan]

This did nt need voting. Gimmick performed by ICC. do they group teams with vote? if not then how come swapping requires vote? we Smell bigotry . Nothing else

If all members hasn't voted you would be the first ones to cry that BCCI solely took the decision. This proved that 14 members were against the request. The 14 members voted for replacing Bangladesh with Scotland.

Also for swapping, specifically Ireland and Sri Lanka refused to swap. Then the decision moved to vote to replace Bangladesh and who to replace them with.

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

So ICC can act without members consent?

Member's cosent is nt needed for operational decisions like swapping group.

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

If all members hasn't voted you would be the first ones to cry that BCCI solely took the decision. This proved that 14 members were against the request. The 14 members voted for replacing Bangladesh with Scotland.

Also for swapping, specifically Ireland and Sri Lanka refused to swap. Then the decision moved to vote to replace Bangladesh and who to replace them with.

are you making this up?

Vote was nt needed to make an operational decision to swap group.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Maybe it's worth reading the statements from your politicians.

BJP leader Sangeet Som said on Dec 31st according to India Today that Mustafizur would not be safe to leave the airport if he was allowed to feature in IPL.

He wasn't the only one. That sounds a clear security threat but I guess not when the security assessment is overseen by some

Are there any threats to Illegal Bangladeshis in India which are plenty in number. Besides there was bidding war for Fiz. SRH, MI, DC, RR, CSK , KKR all went after him. If they had felt threat they wouldn't have bought Fiz. They would have avoided bidding for him like they did for Pakistanis. Just remember Pakistani players were never officially banned from taking part in IPL auction. IPL teams on their own avoided bidding for them something they could hav edone for Fiz as well..

 

[bk19xsa]

Some of my compatriots get triggered far too easily by the western side of our border.

If Indian media or some so called Indian fans here, whom I suspect may even be ISI trolls trying to make us Indians look bad, had simply let the ICC handle it professionally and let ICC tell the BCB, 'Sorry, no change of venues. It’s too close to the tournament,' and if the BCB then withdrew (which they did), that should have been the end of it. We enjoy the tournament.

But nope, some of us have to get unnecessarily triggered and still are as per this thread.

To my compatriots: life and cricket are far too good not to be enjoyed. So what if the BCB doesn’t want to come or change venues? We have a very strong team, the tournament is co hosted by us, and the final is likely to be at our ground.

Lets enjoy it and not get triggered and let go of extreme, vindictive thinking.

 

[Markhor]

Are there any threats to Illegal Bangladeshis in India which are plenty in number. Besides there was bidding war for Fiz. SRH, MI, DC, RR, CSK , KKR all went after him. If they had felt threat they wouldn't have bought Fiz. They would have avoided bidding for him like they did for Pakistanis. Just remember Pakistani players were never officially banned from taking part in IPL auction. IPL teams on their own avoided bidding for them something they could hav edone for Fiz as well..

There wasn't a security threat until the hardliners in the BJP and Shiv Sena opened their gobs and started talking about how SRK is a traitor and Mustafizur wouldn't be allowed to leave the airport if he plays in IPL because of Hindu mistreatment in Bangladesh (yet Afghanistan wiping out its Hindu minority and their cricketers featuring in IPL is fine according to them).

Instead of ignoring their rantings, the Indian Govt appeased them. Why have extremists got a veto over who private entities employ ? Shouldn't that worry Indian citizens more than whatever Bangladesh have done here ?

I can only imagine the uproar from Indian posters if a Pakistani politician from the ruling party demanded Hindu cricketers be excluded from PSL on basis of Muslim mistreatment in India. You guys would crash the servers.

 

[SportsWarrior]

you are making this up right? Swapping requires other teams to agree LOL you guys have habbit of making up rules out of thin air

So you want IRL to bend down to every whim and suddenly change their preparation? May be you are the one making stuff out of thin air?

Cricket Ireland rejects T20 World Cup group swap: Reports

“We’ve received definitive assurances that we won’t move from the original schedule. We’re definitely playing the Group Stage in Sri Lanka,” a Cricket Ireland official told Cricbuzz.

www.thedailystar.net

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

So you want IRL to bend down to every whim and suddenly change their preparation? May be you are the one making stuff out of thin air?

Cricket Ireland rejects T20 World Cup group swap: Reports

“We’ve received definitive assurances that we won’t move from the original schedule. We’re definitely playing the Group Stage in Sri Lanka,” a Cricket Ireland official told Cricbuzz.

www.thedailystar.net

i cant read in this article where Cricket Ireland refused to swap

 

[jnaveen1980]

There wasn't a security threat until the hardliners in the BJP and Shiv Sena opened their gobs and started talking about how SRK is a traitor and Mustafizur wouldn't be allowed to leave the airport if he plays in IPL because of Hindu mistreatment in Bangladesh (yet Afghanistan wiping out its Hindu minority and their cricketers featuring in IPL is fine according to them).

Instead of ignoring their rantings, the Indian Govt appeased them. Why have extremists got a veto over who private entities employ ? Shouldn't that worry Indian citizens more than whatever Bangladesh have done here ?

I can only imagine the uproar from Indian posters if a Pakistani politician from the ruling party demanded Hindu cricketers be excluded from PSL on basis of Muslim mistreatment in India. You guys would crash the servers.

If you count the "hardliners" that will be like 100 people on social media out of billion people. You really think others are going to care about BD team lol There is a misconception everyone in India is following cricket actively and let alone finding political connections.

 

[Josh]

BCB did the proportionate reaction by Banning IPL in Bangladesh after mustafizur was released by KKR. They should have stopped there or maybe few statements here and there.

No other board is going to support the security threat issue, when everyone know the issue is clearly political. There is of course hypocrisy here with regards to India and Pak but we don't live in an ideal world and Bangladesh is not a very important team in the stadium

 

[sweep_shot]

I watch cricket since 1997 and I have watched many classic ICC events. Cricket World Cups have always had high integrity until recent times.

Last few ICC events (including U-19), integrity has been missing. India have been getting all sorts of blatant perks (venue perks, scheduling perks, ICC decision perks, grouping perks etc.). World Cups have lost the meaning. It hass turned into India Cup or Sanghi Cup.

If I was in charge of BD sports, I would withdraw BD from cricket and use that money to focus on football (the #1 sport in the world and a sport that hasn't been polluted by the sanghis).

I hope cricket will one day become liberated from the sanghis. As of now, it is a hijacked sport.

 

[Josh]

I watch cricket since 1997 and I have watched many classic ICC events. Cricket World Cups have always had high integrity until recent times.

Last few ICC events (including U-19), integrity has been missing. India have been getting all sorts of blatant perks (venue perks, scheduling perks, ICC decision perks, grouping perks etc.). World Cups have lost the meaning. It hass turned into India Cup or Sanghi Cup.

If I was in charge of BD sports, I would withdraw BD from cricket and use that money to focus on football (the #1 sport in the world and a sport that hasn't been polluted by the sanghis).

I hope cricket will one day become liberated from the sanghis. As of now, it is a hijacked sport.

Zimbabwe was punished due to Politics too.

 

[BDfanforever]

Everyone is blaming BCB, but it was actually meticulously orchestrated by BCCI. IPL is still far away, they could've brought up Fizz issue after WC was over.

 

[SportsWarrior]

Everyone is blaming BCB, but it was actually meticulously orchestrated by BCCI. IPL is still far away, they could've brought up Fizz issue after WC was over.

Or you know, BD could have done what is in their hand, deal with it professionally. They already banned IPL in BD and BCCI didn’t care. Do you think BCCI will care BD boycotting an ICC event where they get back 38 cent for every 80 cents? They don’t give a damn what happens to BD or an ICC event as long most participate. If they move WC of India BCCI will release few statements and ultimately will be glad as they will have one less competition for IPL in India. Ultimately too much of cricket will saturate people’s willingness to watch. They would rather have those eyeballs for IPL than an ICC event

 

[sweep_shot]

Everyone is blaming BCB, but it was actually meticulously orchestrated by BCCI. IPL is still far away, they could've brought up Fizz issue after WC was over.

I know many who are praising BCB.

Only Indians and Indian bootlickers are blaming BCB.

It is refreshing to see BCB not bootlicking India for a change.

 

[BreadPakoda]

I watch cricket since 1997 and I have watched many classic ICC events. Cricket World Cups have always had high integrity until recent times.

Last few ICC events (including U-19), integrity has been missing. India have been getting all sorts of blatant perks (venue perks, scheduling perks, ICC decision perks, grouping perks etc.). World Cups have lost the meaning. It hass turned into India Cup or Sanghi Cup.

If I was in charge of BD sports, I would withdraw BD from cricket and use that money to focus on football (the #1 sport in the world and a sport that hasn't been polluted by the sanghis).

I hope cricket will one day become liberated from the sanghis. As of now, it is a hijacked sport.

A sport you love (and spend a large chunk of your day talking about) has been hijacked by your biggest enemy. All you can do is dream of India’s decline when so and so retires in a time when they have won 2/3 ICC cups in the last few years. Sounds miserable.

 

[Red-Indian]

Everyone is blaming BCB, but it was actually meticulously orchestrated by BCCI. IPL is still far away, they could've brought up Fizz issue after WC was over.

I don't know. I hate to comment on this because the BCCI was very unfair to force Mustafizur to be dropped. Bangladesh was smart to respond appropriately and ban the telecast of the IPL and cost the BCCI money (I'm not sure how much). That much was very fair as a *** for tat.

To take on the ICC and force the entire cricketing world to make a choice between the BCCI and it was a silly decision though. If you really wanted to do this, there should've been heaps of lobbying, planning, compensation etc. It's very difficult to convince the cricketing world there's a security threat in India. They've all spent heaps of time there in the last few months.

However, Bangladesh is under a military dictatorship that needs a decision that makes it popular under the masses so I suppose it works for them.

 

[emranabbas]

I don't know. I hate to comment on this because the BCCI was very unfair to force Mustafizur to be dropped. Bangladesh was smart to respond appropriately and ban the telecast of the IPL and cost the BCCI money (I'm not sure how much). That much was very fair as a *** for tat.

To take on the ICC and force the entire cricketing world to make a choice between the BCCI and it was a silly decision though. If you really wanted to do this, there should've been heaps of lobbying, planning, compensation etc. It's very difficult to convince the cricketing world there's a security threat in India. They've all spent heaps of time there in the last few months.

However, Bangladesh is under a military dictatorship that needs a decision that makes it popular under the masses so I suppose it works for them.

very good post except the bolded part.

the security risk is for Bangladesh due to on going issues in Bangladesh and the Hindu - Muslim issues in Bangladesh.
so why would the rest of the world be in risk.

here I can post you x links where Indians are openly threatening Bangladesh Pakistan and Afghanistan and don't want no cricketing ties

and this is all pre mustafizur episode.

 

[Flat_Track_Bully]

How can Bangladesh possibly play cricket in India after India is hosting Hasina? That scenario alone makes it not possible.

ICC should have been more flexible.

There will be consequences for this in future.