Bangladesh Protests Hit Cricket: How A Main Match Can Get Affected

Uncertainty has surrounded Bangladesh’s skill to host the 2024 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup from October 3-20 because of the ongoing turmoil and subsequent resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled the nation in an Air Drive jet. With the match being lower than two months away from beginning, speculations have risen over the occasion being moved to an alternate venue if the unrest continues in Bangladesh. The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has acknowledged nothing on this entrance, however have mentioned they’re carefully monitoring developments in Bangladesh, earlier than deciding their subsequent steps.

“The ICC is carefully monitoring developments in coordination with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), their safety companies and our personal impartial safety consultants. Our precedence is the security and well-being of all individuals,” mentioned the ICC spokesperson to IANS.

Throughout final month’s ICC Annual Convention in Colombo, the matter of unrest in Bangladesh over a authorities jobs quota system was raised by a number of member nations. However the difficulty was not on the agenda of the four-day convention and therefore, it wasn’t mentioned formally.

Ten groups will play 23 matches over 18 days of 2024 Ladies’s T20 World Cup at two venues – Sher-e-Bangla Nationwide Cricket Stadium in Dhaka and the Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Sylhet.

There will likely be 10 warm-up matches from September 27 to October 1, all going down at BKSP in Dhaka. In Might, the ICC introduced the Ladies’s T20 World Cup schedule in Dhaka, the place Hasina was current alongside India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Bangladesh skipper Nigar Sultana.

India are in Group A alongside New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and defending champions Australia, whereas Group B contains of hosts Bangladesh, England, South Africa, West Indies and Scotland. Bangladesh are slated to host the match for the second time after final doing so in 2014.

2023 World Cup runners up South Africa will play England within the opening match of the Ladies’s T20 World Cup. It’s adopted by hosts Bangladesh going through Scotland within the night match in Dhaka.

Australia, the defending champions and probably the most profitable staff within the occasion’s historical past, will begin their marketing campaign on October 4 in Sylhet towards Sri Lanka. It’s adopted by India opening its marketing campaign towards New Zealand on the identical day.

Prime two groups from Group A and Group B will qualify for the semi-finals, scheduled for October 17 in Sylhet, and October 18 in Dhaka respectively. The Ladies’s T20 World Cup champions will likely be topped in Dhaka on October 20.