BCB hopeful that Sri Lanka tour will go ahead

Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Tuesday that they are confident of facilitating Sri Lanka in the impending two-match series regardless of their political disturbance.

Sri Lanka Cricket deferred the Bangladesh High-Performance Unit's visit because of the continuous monetary emergency in the country while questions were raised regardless of whether they will actually want to visit Bangladesh in May for the Test series which is essential for ICC Test Championship.

"Concerning public group's task, we are in correspondence with them (SLC) and they are completely dedicated to their timetable of visiting Bangladesh," BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury told journalists on Tuesday.

''What we actually know, the visit will be held according to the timetable, and we are arranging everything as indicated by the timetable. I think SLC are additionally dedicated, they will likewise visit according to the timetable,'' he said.

The Sri Lankan group is set to show up in Bangladesh on May 8 and play a two-day warm-up match at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chattogram on May 11 and 12, in front of the two-match Test series, which is set to start on May 15 at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Cricket Stadium in Chattogram.

The subsequent Test is to be played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka from May 23.

In the mean time, Nizamuddin added that Bangladesh, who have not visited Australia and England in late past, will play against them once the new FTP (Future Tours Program) becomes effective.

"We have conversed with the applicable sheets to determine these issues about playing in away visits and have gotten a few positive signs. Ideally, when the following FTP comes, there will be a reflection," said Nizamuddin, who as of late gone to the ICC meeting.

Nizamuddin added that they couldn't have ICC Under-19 World Cup, which was at first granted to Bangladesh however later ICC declared that South Africa will have it, because of worldwide responsibilities

''There is a disarray about it. We were intrigued to have the main version of U-19 Women's World cup and appropriately that was granted to Bangladesh Cricket Board. That was in 2020 presumably. In any case, ICC didn't organize it because of Covid circumstance,'' said Nizamuddin.

Afterward, they likewise is curious as to whether we are intrigued to have it and we gave our demeanor to them. Our underlying proposition to organize it is Dhaka, however presently the matter is, we can't orchestrate it in Dhaka because of our FTP responsibility and different responsibilities,'' he said

''Since we need to orchestrate ICC U-19 WWC outside of Dhaka we want a few extra calculated game plans and it will be challenging as far as we're concerned. Afterward, ICC worked for certain different choices lastly chose to provide for South Africa,'' he said.

''It isn't similar to that ICC took it from us. They proposed to us, however we have different things like facilitating worldwide groups and our homegrown associations thus we were not intrigued,'' he added.