Bangladesh to 'break ice' with BCCI during India-Pakistan T20 World Cup clash: 'ICC has taken the decision'

The replacement of Bangladesh by Scotland also led Pakistan to boycott the game against India, a call that has now been reversed. The Government of Pakistan made a U-turn after the ICC announced that Bangladesh would not be sanctioned and would even get the hosting rights for an event before 2031.

Islam was also a part of the meeting between the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Mohsin Naqvi and the two-member ICC delegation. The meeting took place on Sunday, February 8, at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, and the following day, the ICC announced that Bangladesh would face no sanctions. Once this announcement was made, the Government of Pakistan made it public that the team would be allowed to play against India, and this confirmation came minutes after the BCB president requested the PCB to take the field against Suryakumar Yadav's India.

"The ICC has made a decision. The major stakeholders of the ICC are these five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan) and for the India-Pakistan match on the 15th in the World Cup, they want representatives of all five Asian countries to be present at the ground together, watch the match together and talk to one another," Aminul was quoted as saying by Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo.

"You can consider it as something like that (an ice breaker between us)," he added.

The BCB President, Aminul, also added that they were likely to prepare an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) so that the decisions taken during the Lahore meeting cannot be tampered with in the future.

"We will also enter into an agreement. The agreement will be line-by-line, an MoU-type document, so there is no uncertainty. You know that earlier, when we held the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Annual General Meeting in Dhaka, a similar issue arose. There as well, we prepared a MoU-type document so that no one could ever deviate from the contract in any way," he said.

"Similar discussions (regarding preparing the MoU) with the ICC are more or less finalised," he added.

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