{"id":384258,"date":"2026-01-22T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384258\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:01:11","slug":"world-t20-2026-bangladesh-repeat-plea-to-move-games-from-india-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384258\/","title":{"rendered":"World T20 2026: Bangladesh repeat plea to move games from India to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will go back to the ICC with our plan to play in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They did give us a 24-hour ultimatum but a global body can&#8217;t really do that. ICC will miss out on 200 million people watching the World Cup. It will be their loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland, as the highest-ranked nation that did not qualify outright for the World Cup, could be handed a late route into the competition if the ICC replaces Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The T20 World Cup, co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka, runs from 7 February to 8 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bangladesh are due to three of their four group games in Kolkata, including against England on 14 February, and the other in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is no scope for changing our decision,&#8221; said Asif Nazrul, an adviser for youth and sports issues in Bangladesh&#8217;s interim government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is crucial to weigh the loss of not playing against the potential catastrophe of pushing players, fans and journalists into a risky regional political situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a government decision, as the state is responsible for determining whether its citizens face security risks abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We will go back to the ICC with our plan to play in Sri Lanka. &#8220;They did give&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-384258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}