The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 is scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in October this year. The current situation in this country is not good, so the internal security team of the International Cricket Council (ICC) is keeping an eye on the chaos spread in Bangladesh.
According to the pre-decided schedule, Bangladesh is to host the Women’s T20 World Cup from October 3 to 20.
BCCI rejected the offer!
Looking at the latest situation, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) itself is not interested in organizing this tournament in its country. The BCB had proposed to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to host this tournament, but the Indian Cricket Board refused. BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has revealed this.
In an interview given to Times of India, Jai Shah said, ‘They had asked BCCI if they could host the event, but I flatly refused. We are still in the monsoon season and next year we are going to host the ODI Women’s World Cup. We do not want to give the impression that we want to host two consecutive World Cups.’
There was a demonstration in Bangladesh demanding the abolition of the controversial reservation system. The demonstrations gradually turned violent and the situation went out of control. Due to the violence spread in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to resign and flee the country. However, after the formation of the interim government under the leadership of Mohammad Yunus, the situation in Bangladesh has become a little normal.
The ICC is currently adopting a wait and watch policy on this issue. An ICC board member had said, ‘The ICC has an independent security monitoring system in all its member countries. The situation is being closely monitored, but there are seven weeks left for the tournament to begin. In such a situation, it would be premature to comment on whether the tournament will be shifted from Bangladesh or not.’
… then the Women’s T20 World Cup will be held here
The ICC has contingency plans for unavoidable situations and in this case, Sri Lanka could be an option. Sri Lanka hosted the 2012 men’s T20 World Cup there between September and October. It will be interesting to see if the SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) send their women’s teams to a country where the security situation may remain fragile.
