DHAKA, Dec 18, 2019 (BSS)-Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) showed its
desire to send the team in Pakistan but only for a short visit.
More specifically the BCB wants to tour in Pakistan for three-match T20
series only while they want to play the two-match Test series in neutral
venue.
BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that they have already communicated
Pakistan, letting them know what the Bangladesh wants but is yet to get any
reply.
“We are with Pakistan always in their initiative to revive the cricket
there and so at this moment we want to send the national male team for three-
match T20 series only,” Chowdhury told the BSS here today.
“At this moment we want the two-match Test series to be held in neutral
venue and Pakistan can decide where they want to play.”
He continued: “Since Pakistan played in neutral venue, we think it won’t
be a problem for them to arrange the Test series in a place other than
Pakistan.”
The bilateral series between the two countries which comprises with two-
match Test series and three-match T20 series is scheduled to be held in
February. For those matches, Bangladesh needs to stay in Pakistan almost one
month.
“At this moment we actually can’t stay there for a longer period of
time. We have already communicated them in this regard and we are still in
touch with them. But still there is no reply,” the CEO added.
Bangladesh earlier sent an aged level male team and national women’s
team in Pakistan but that also for a short tour.
BCB’s decision to make it short tour came after a high level security
team, sent by the Bangladesh Government visited twice in Pakistan to assess
the security condition there.
Cricket in Pakistan remained stopped since the terrorist attack on the
Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore. Afterwards Sri Lanka became the first team
to play a Test there recently before two other teams visited for a T20
series.