Sri Lanka to host Tri-nation involving Bangladesh, India
Most likely the tournament will be held in March next
PTI
PTI, NEW DELHI: Bangladesh has been invited to play in a Tri-nation Tournament in Sri Lanka in March 2018. India is the third country to play with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka are scheduled to play 3 Tests, 5 ODIs and a 2 T20 Internationals in India next year but probably some of the ODI matches will be transformed into T20 fixtures which will also help both SLC and Bangladesh make substantial monetary gains.
Sri Lanka was always there with India at ICC and now its clear that even Bangladesh, which had voted against BCCI at February meeting of the ICC Board is now in favour of worlds richest cricketing board.
Bangladesh it is heard is not happy with ICCs move to review full membership status which could also harm their prospects in the long run.
During a meeting of the top board officials in Colombo on the occasion of Bangladeshs historic 100th Test match, BCCI CEO Rahul Johri is believed to have had discussions with Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) supremo Nazmul Hasan Papon and SLC chief Thilanga Sumathipala.
The [SLC] technical committee and cricket committee is looking into it, but at the moment we would like it to be a T20 triangular thats what the agreement is, SLC president Thilanga Sumathipala was quoted by ESPN Cricinfo.
We made this appeal to India in about June or May last year, he said. India were here during the Asian Cricket Council opening ceremony, so we discussed this its been going on for seven to eight months. So this has nothing to do with the ICC board meeting that happened in February. Our stand has been very clear.
