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Tuesday, June 21, 2011Sports
BCB seeks fair FTP
India tour still elusive
Sports Reporter
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will appeal for fair distribution in the next Future Tours Programme (FTP).
BCB CEO Manzur Ahmed, who will leave Dhaka on June 24 to attend the two-day CEOs meeting, informed that they have proposed to different cricket boards for the reasonable allocation.
“We are not asking for equal distribution rather we are asking for fair distribution. Everything is mostly depending on the respective boards, so mutual understanding and interest is the most important thing in this regard and that's why we have already proposed to different boards,” explained Manzur.
Although there has been a whispering that top-ranked sides are reluctant to host Bangladesh but there has been a fair number of Test, ODI and T20 matches in the proposed FTP for the next eight years, which will be effective from June 2012 to April 2020.
Bangladesh is likely to get around 50 Test matches, 79 one-day internationals and 17 T20 internationals in the span of eight years as per the proposed FTP but once again there was no schedule for Bangladesh to visit India to play a full series.
The tenth member of the Test elite club, Bangladesh, visited all the other Test nations for playing full series except India. Since being elevated into the Test club in 2002, Bangladesh hosted India several times but the neighbours have yet to invite the Tigers to play a full series in their country which raised many eyebrows.
According to the proposed new FTP there is no scope for Bangladesh to visit India for Test series in the next eight years which meant Bangladesh cricket team will deprive from playing Test match in India in 20 years of their entrance into the Test cricket.
The finger however has been raised towards the Bangladesh officials as many believed that they have not tried enough to make it happen as the home series against India is always financially more viable for Bangladesh cricket.
Manzur however said that everything is not finished with the proposed FTP.
“As I said earlier that everything depends on the respective boards. Right at the moment we have two home series against India but we will try to accommodate at least one away series against India within next eight years time. Nothing is final yet,” hoped Manzur.
The former cricketer was also hopeful about the pending Test series against Australia. “Most probably Australia is offered to play the pending Test series in 2014 but we are trying to make it happen in 2013,” said Manzur.
He also informed that the ICC AGM will be held on June 30 where the main agenda will be whether the ICC president will be elected or go on with the current rotation policy.
Bangladesh is in favour of completion of the circle of the rotation policy before going into the election.
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