BCB look to break ice with BCCI during India-Pakistan game

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Aminul Islam has hinted that he is looking to break ice with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) during the match between India and Pakistan in the ongoing T20 World Cup, scheduled in Colombo on Sunday (February 15).

The BCB decided to skip the global event citing security reasons, after the ICC rejected their request to relocate their matches out of India. During an ICC meeting, it was decided by vote that Bangladesh would not feature in the T20 World Cup if they did not travel to India. Scotland were then summoned as the replacement team.

Following the meeting, the ICC stated there will be no sanction on Bangladesh for boycotting the T20 World Cup, while an agreement was reached that Bangladesh will host an ICC event between 2028 and 2031.

"The ICC has taken a decision. The major stakeholders of the ICC are these five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan) and for the India-Pakistan match on the 15th in the World Cup, they want representatives of all five Asian countries to be present at the ground together, watch the match together and talk to one another," Aminul was quoted in leading Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo on Wednesday.

"You can consider it as something like that (an ice breaker between us)," he said.

Aminul added that they were likely to prepare an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) so that the decisions taken during the meeting in Lahore cannot be ignored in the future.

"We will also enter into an agreement. The agreement will be line by line, an MoU-type document, so that there is no uncertainty," said Aminul.

"You know that earlier when we held the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Annual General Meeting in Dhaka, a similar issue arose. There as well, we prepared a MoU-type document so that no one could ever deviate from the contract in any way," he said.

"Similar discussions (regarding preparing the MoU) with the ICC are more or less finalised," he added.