Board of Management for Cricket in India Secretary Jay Shah has confirmed that the Indian board has rejected the supply to host the upcoming Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 in October. Jay Shah said that the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) approached the BCCI to host the multi-team event later this yr.
The ICC is contemplating transferring the Ladies’s T20 World Cup from Bangladesh as a result of nation’s political instability. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina submitted her resignation from the submit. Current safety points from anti-government protests have led to doubts about internet hosting the event as deliberate.
Bangladesh’s interim authorities is attempting to save lots of the Ladies’s T20 World Cup. The ICC is exploring all choices, together with relocating the event. International locations like India, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK have imposed journey restrictions, which difficult issues for the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).
We Are Going To Host The ODI Ladies’s World Cup – Jay Shah
Throughout his interplay with TOI’s reporters and editors in Mumbai, Jay Shah confirmed that India won’t host the Ladies’s T20 World Cup. Shah said that the BCCI declined the ICC’s request, including that India doesn’t wish to host consecutive World Cups.
“They (ICC) had requested the BCCI if they will host the occasion, however I flatly refused. We’d be nonetheless within the monsoon season and subsequent yr, we’re going to host the ODI Ladies’s World Cup. I don’t wish to give the impression that I wish to host consecutive World Cups,” Jay Shah was quoted as saying by the Instances of India.
India not too long ago hosted the 2023 Males’s ODI World Cup. The BCCI is ready to host the 2025 Ladies’s ODI World Cup and co-host the 2026 Males’s T20 World Cup with Sri Lanka. After India declined the supply, the ICC is contemplating Sri Lanka and the UAE as various hosts for the Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024.
The Ladies’s T20 World Cup is deliberate to be performed in Bangladesh from October 3 to twenty. The event will characteristic ten groups enjoying 23 matches over 18 days. Sher-e-Bangla Nationwide Cricket Stadium in Dhaka and the Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Sylhet had been chosen as venues for the occasion.
A New Authorities Has Simply Been Shaped Over There – Jay Shah
Bangladesh is at present in Pakistan to play a two-match Check collection. The Bangladesh workforce will then journey to India for 2 Exams and three T20Is, beginning September 19 in Chennai.
Shah emphasised that there was no contact from the brand new Bangladeshi authorities but for the upcoming collection. Shah added that the BCCI will make sure the collection is hosted efficiently.
“None as of now. A brand new authorities has simply been fashioned over there. They’ll absolutely attain out to us. If they don’t, I’ll absolutely attain out to them. For us, Bangladesh collection is essential. We are going to strive our greatest to host it,” Shah added.
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