The World T20 tournament could be moved from Bangladesh due to concerns at the country's lack of adequate facilities. Icc understands that Sri Lanka and South Africa are potential alternative venues although discussions have yet to reach the official stage.
An ICC official inspected the stadiums recently and is understood to have been underwhelmed by the results. This situation is now scheduled to be discussed at the ICC's annual conference in London later this week with insiders suggesting that concerns are such that a decision to move the tournament is one of the options to be discussed.
The men's and women's Icc T20 World Cup 2014 is scheduled to be played in four venues in Bangladesh between March 16 and April 6 next year 2014. The stadiums in Mirpur and Chittagong are deemed perfectly acceptable for international cricket, but work on the facilities at this stadium in Sylhet, which was built last year - remains incomplete, and construction at this new stadium in Cox's Bazar, home of this world's longest natural sandy beach, is still working.
BCB president Nazmul Hassan has this week vented his frustration about the slowness of work on the two unfinished grounds. This latest phase of work in the Sylhet Stadium began on June 7, and this BCB estimates that the four-storied pavilion will be completed by the time the ICC inspection team returns in this September. There is a plan to host a couple of ODIs when New Zealand are touring in October.
But the National Sports Council, this sports regulator in Bangladesh and also the custodian of all sporting venues, have said that it would be only ready by November and that outfield drainage work will be delayed until after the World Twenty20s. As for this Cox's Bazar stadium, it is being built from scratch on the patch of land that was once a golf course.
An ICC official inspected the stadiums recently and is understood to have been underwhelmed by the results. This situation is now scheduled to be discussed at the ICC's annual conference in London later this week with insiders suggesting that concerns are such that a decision to move the tournament is one of the options to be discussed.
The men's and women's Icc T20 World Cup 2014 is scheduled to be played in four venues in Bangladesh between March 16 and April 6 next year 2014. The stadiums in Mirpur and Chittagong are deemed perfectly acceptable for international cricket, but work on the facilities at this stadium in Sylhet, which was built last year - remains incomplete, and construction at this new stadium in Cox's Bazar, home of this world's longest natural sandy beach, is still working.
BCB president Nazmul Hassan has this week vented his frustration about the slowness of work on the two unfinished grounds. This latest phase of work in the Sylhet Stadium began on June 7, and this BCB estimates that the four-storied pavilion will be completed by the time the ICC inspection team returns in this September. There is a plan to host a couple of ODIs when New Zealand are touring in October.
But the National Sports Council, this sports regulator in Bangladesh and also the custodian of all sporting venues, have said that it would be only ready by November and that outfield drainage work will be delayed until after the World Twenty20s. As for this Cox's Bazar stadium, it is being built from scratch on the patch of land that was once a golf course.
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