BCB President Reveals When Cricket Will Return

|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said that there will be no kind of cricket would take place without COVID-19 situation improvement or the arrival of a vaccine.

Nazmul made the announcement days after Bangladesh’s ministry of youth and sports has announced that the health directorate gave their opinions to start sports and training programmes to a limited scale across the country.

It means that the country's most prestigious 50-over tournament Dhaka Premier League will not start shortly that has been postponed after the first round of matches in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

"The league can resume on two conditions. Firstly if the corona situation improves of the vaccine arrives," said Nazmul.

"There is the logic behind starting the league without these two elements. There are some countries trying to resume cricket but apart from England there is no cricket anywhere," he said.

"There is no point bringing trouble by trying to show our courage [by resuming cricket]," he further added.

Nazmul further indicated that he is doubtful regarding the upcoming edition of Bangladesh Premier League considering he is not sure whether foreign cricketers will be available or not for the league.

"As far as BPL is concerned it is the same. If the condition improves we can start everything otherwise not," he said.

"It will be extremely difficult in Bangladesh [ to get foreign cricketers] and I don’t think they will be available. Look India cannot do IPL. They are hosting it elsewhere but even then lots of cricketers are not coming at least initially. No one can guarantee who will come. Say we start the game with 20 to 25 cricketers and they are negative but at one point they become positive while playing. Because there is no guarantee how it will affect we have to take the decision carefully," he said.