Litton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto open rebellion as they defy Bangladesh govt, back India trip for T20 WC

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is at risk over its stance of not traveling to India to play the upcoming T20 World Cup 2026, due to security concerns, while the cricketers of the Bangladesh cricket team may have different ideas. The potential difference in ideas between the cricketers and the officials put the board in a position of major crisis.

On Thursday, Bangladesh officials made it clear through a press conference that they are not ready to travel to India to play the T20 World Cup, as they claimed that they did not get any assurances from the International Cricket Council (ICC). The decision came in broad daylight after a meeting with the cricketers. But according to a new media report, Bangladeshi cricketers may have different ideas, which the officials are not taking seriously.

Bangladesh cricketers may have other ideas

According to a report published by Cricbuzz, Bangladesh’s star cricketers, such as T20I captain Liton Das and Test captain Najm Hossain Shanto, were in favor of traveling to India to play the tournament and may have expressed their thoughts in the meeting, but that had no impact on the decision taken by the officials.

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The Bangladesh Cricket Board has remained strong in its views on not traveling to India due to “security” concerns being expressed. To support their decision, they gave “past incidents” and potential threats as examples.

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A one-sided meeting between players and officials?

The meeting appears to have been mostly one-sided. The officials may have arranged the meeting just to inform the cricketers of their decision. Did the cricketers get any significant opportunity to put forward their ideas to reverse the decision? The question is asked.

“The meeting was not called to give our approval, as was initially expected. Rather, we were called so that we would be aware of the developments in the ongoing crisis. They had taken their decision and decided what they would do before coming to the meeting, and it is not as if any decision was taken keeping our opinions in mind,” a cricketer told the media.

Sports advisor to the Bangladesh government described it as an “injustice.”

Yesterday, after the meeting, Sports Advisor to the Bangladesh government Asif Nazrul claimed that even after they appealed to the council to shift the World Cup stadiums from India to Sri Lanka, due to potential security threats from the cricketers and people associated with the team, they did not receive any satisfactory response from the ICC, which upset the Bangladesh central bank and the government official a lot.

“I think we did not get justice from the ICC. Whether we play in the World Cup or not is entirely a government decision. Nothing has happened in India in the recent past to indicate that things have changed there (in terms of security). We hope the ICC will give us justice,” Nazrul said.

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