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The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has sent an official letter to the Bangladesh Army Chief seeking security assurance in the hope of conducting the upcoming ICC Women's T20 World Cup, which is currently scheduled to begin on September 27.

There were reports that the ICC was mulling over shifting the World Cup from Bangladesh to neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka, UAE and India. But the board still hopes to host the tournament despite a government emergency in the country.

Following the appointment of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus as interim government, the political unrest is slowly diminishing within the country. 

After Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's departure, several board directors, including BCB president Nazmul Hassan, were forced to leave Bangladesh as they were in the Awami League.

"We are trying to host the tournament," Iftekhar Ahmed Mithu, BCB's Umpire Committee chairman, told Cricbuzz.

"To be honest there are not too many among us present in the country and on Thursday (August 8) we have sent a letter to the Army Chief regarding assurance about the security of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup as we have only two months in hand," he said.

"ICC communicated with us two days back and we replied that we will come back to them shortly. Today after the [interim] government is formed, still we have to give them assurance of the security considering it cannot be given by the board or any anyone else apart from a law enforcement agency of the country and so we sent the letter today and after getting written assurance from them [the Army] we will inform the ICC," he added.

According to Cricbuzz, ICC will decide on the tournament venue by August 10 after assessing the conditions in Bangladesh.