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The ICC has replaced Bangladesh with Scotland at the 2026 T20 World Cup, the decision coming after nearly three weeks of negotiations with the BCB over its refusal to send a team to India due to security concerns, according to a report by ESPN Cricinfo.
The ICC is understood to have sent the BCB an email on Friday evening informing them of the decision, after the BCB communicated that the Bangladesh government had not granted permission to travel to India for the tournament that begins on February 7, the report says.
In its communication to the ICC on Thursday, the BCB said it wanted to take the issue to the ICC's Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC), according to the report.
It is not known on what grounds the BCB is taking this to the DRC, or what the ICC's response was,
ESPN Cricinfo report says.
The DRC is an independent panel, which is assembled by ICC, to help resolve disputes of various kinds including that between a member board and the governing body.
The decision came finally after the ICC Board had an emergency meeting on Wednesday via video conference during which the majority of the directors voted to replace Bangladesh if they did not agree to play in India and continued to insist on moving their matches to Sri Lanka, according to ESPN Cricinfo.
In a statement following the meeting, the ICC said its board had agreed it would not be "feasible" to change the tournament schedule "so close" to the start date, says the report.
The ICC board also believed that altering the schedule in the "absence of any credible security threat" for teams in India could "set a precedent that would jeopardise the sanctity of future ICC events and undermine its neutrality as a global governing body."
The board gave the BCB until Thursday to confer with the Bangladesh government and decide on whether they would travel to India as per the existing T20 World Cup schedule, according to the report.
On Thursday, however, the Bangladesh government and BCB reiterated that they will not be traveling to India.
The BCB president Aminul Islam accused the ICC of double standards, in how it was dealing with this situation compared to how they had dealt with the BCCI's refusal to travel to Pakistan for the 2025 Champions Trophy, the ESPN Cricinfo report says.