India won’t step in to host October’s Girls’s T20 World Cup if it must be moved from Bangladesh, says Indian cricket board (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah.
Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India earlier this month after weeks of lethal anti-government protests.
The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) says it’s “carefully monitoring developments” within the nation, which is about to host the match from 3-20 October.
Shah stated the ICC requested the BCCI about presumably internet hosting as an alternative however he “flatly refused”.
“We might nonetheless be within the monsoon season and subsequent yr we’re going to host the Girls’s ODI World Cup,” Shah told Times of India., external
“I don’t wish to give the impression that I wish to maintain consecutive World Cups.”
Greater than 400 individuals have been killed in Bangladesh throughout weeks of student-led demonstrations, which began as a protest towards quotas in civil service jobs.
The ICC stated it was working with the Bangladesh Cricket Board and impartial safety consultants to evaluate the scenario.
The Girls’s T20 World Cup is about to characteristic 10 groups, together with England and Scotland, with 23 matches happening at venues within the capital Dhaka and Sylhet.
Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates are potential various hosts if the match must be moved.