The Worldwide Cricket Council haven’t held any talks with Scotland about changing Bangladesh at subsequent month’s males’s T20 World Cup – however Scottish gamers could be prepared if the decision got here.
Bangladesh have informed the ICC they will not travel to India for the T20 World Cup subsequent month amid political tensions between the 2 international locations, and have requested their matches be moved elsewhere.
Scotland are the very best ranked group not participating within the match, which might put them within the body to take Bangladesh’s spot ought to the ICC determine to switch them.
Nonetheless, BBC Sport has been informed the ICC haven’t contacted Cricket Scotland at this stage to debate whether or not they could be keen to step in.
Equally, Scottish cricket officers will not be planning to provoke talks with the worldwide governing physique out of respect to their counterparts on the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).
A fourth-place end at last summer’s Europe Qualifier value Scotland a spot on the 2026 T20 World Cup because the Netherlands and Italy secured the 2 spots on supply for the area.
Scotland’s gamers are at the moment again in coaching, although, as they put together for a one-day worldwide tri-series with Namibia and Oman in Windhoek in March.
It has been reported {that a} closing name on Bangladesh’s participation within the T20 World Cup, and in the event that they keen to journey to India for the occasion, is about to be taken by Wednesday.
BBC Sport has approached the ICC for clarification of the standards used to find out a alternative within the occasion of a group both pulling out or being expelled from the match.
Zimbabwe withdrew from the 2009 T20 World Cup in England for political causes and had been replaced by Scotland who had been the ‘subsequent greatest’ group in a pre-tournament international qualifying match.
However with qualifying for T20 World Cups, which had been expanded to twenty groups in 2024, now executed on a regional foundation it isn’t fairly so simple and is prone to be a discretionary choice by the ICC.
Scotland are at the moment 14th within the ICC T20 rankings.
The ICC may transfer Bangladesh’s matches to a much less politically delicate a part of the nation, or change their video games to co-hosts Sri Lanka.
It had been reported by ESPNCricinfo, external that the ICC had acquired a request from the BCB to swap teams with Eire, who’re because of play all their video games in Sri Lanka.
A Cricket Eire spokesperson informed BBC Sport they “have been assured” that “no modifications are being made” to their schedule however they’re monitoring developments intently.
