Bangladesh has been under immense turmoil, thanks to the ongoing unrest in the nation. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign from her position a week ago on Monday. She flew to India due to the political unrest in the nation.
The properties belonging to her Awami League property were annihilated by the enraged mob, including that of party member and former skipper of the Bangladeshi cricket team, Mashrafe Mortaza.
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The current situation in the country has led to the formation of a new interim government, However, the whole situation has put a big question mark on Bangladesh's capability to host the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 in October.
Several prominent countries including the likes of India, Australia, New Zealand, England and Scotland have put travelling restrictions on their citizens due to the current fiasco.
However, the current youth and sports advisory minister of the interim government, Asif Mahmud is reluctant to let Bangladesh lose the hosting rights for the tournament, even approaching the United Nations (UN) for a solution.
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Bangladesh reluctant on losing hosting rights for Women’s T20 World Cup
The ICC are currently monitoring the whole situation and are already planning to shift the tournament to a different nation. The situation becomes even worse considering that the current president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Nazmul Hussain has been missing. Since the start of the commotion.
This further questions Bangladesh’s security ahead of the competition, naturally putting the cricket boards of the participating nations in doubt about sending their players for the tournament.
There are travel restrictions for some countries and so we will speak with the United Nations. There are some issues regarding security and infrastructure and we will talk in this regard with professor Yunus (chief adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government). He is a sports lover and hope that he can resolve the matter
Although Asif has acknowledged the problems with infrastructure and security to host the tournament, he is adamant on solving the problems before the tournament kicks off.
However, it looks like a long shot that Bangladesh will be successful in handling the mess in such a short period, and even if they do, other countries would most definitely avoid risking the security of their players.
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