"Barring the final, the India-Pakistan match is the biggest fixture at every cricket tournament, bringing in record-breaking viewing figures, enormous revenue and unmatched attention to the sport. list of 4 itemsend of list Here's how the T20 World Cup dispute started and ended: It all began when, on January 3, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) instructed the Kolkata Knight Riders to remove Bangladeshi fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman from their squad for the Indian Premier League (IPL)."
"A day later, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced that its team would not travel to India for the World Cup upon the advice of the interim Bangladeshi government, citing safety and security concerns for its players and staff. It requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to relocate Bangladesh's fixtures all of which were to be held in India to tournament cohosts Sri Lanka."
The crisis began when the BCCI instructed Kolkata Knight Riders to remove Bangladeshi fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman from their IPL squad on January 3 amid political tensions. The Bangladesh Cricket Board then announced that its team would not travel to India for the World Cup on the advice of the interim government, citing safety and security concerns, and requested the ICC relocate their India fixtures to Sri Lanka. Negotiations between the ICC and BCB ran for more than two weeks without agreement, leading the ICC to expel Bangladesh and replace them with Scotland on January 24. The Pakistan Cricket Board backed Bangladesh and accused the ICC of double standards before Pakistan later ended its boycott of the India match, bringing the standoff to an end.
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