Just read this on New Age
ICC denies questioning
Bangladesh’s Test status
Azad Majumder . Chittagong
The International Cricket Council denied reports that its president David Morgan has questioned the Test status of Bangladesh, a senior official of the Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Tuesday.
The BCB had sought a clarification from the ICC after Morgan was quoted in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph earlier this week as saying that no country should play Test cricket just because it is the full member of the ICC.
A team that is not gaining anything from
experience should better settle for one-day international status, Morgan
had suggested in the Telegraph report without mentioning the name of any country.
‘The ICC has confirmed that there is nothing in his comments to suggest that Bangladesh should play less Test cricket,’ said Jalal Yunus, the media chief of the BCB.
‘His comments merely stated that it is up to each full member to make whatever arrangements it sees fit to play additional Tests over and above each side’s basic commitment of two Tests and three ODIs at home and away as per current Future Tour Progarmme that runs up to May 2012,’ said Yunus.
The Telegraph report claimed that Bangladesh’s Test future will be discussed at the ICC executive board meeting in Perth at the end of January, but ICC in their clarification to the BCB said it was an opinion of the reporter, not based on any true fact.
Maybe this will put fans mind at rest, but BD should really try and improve on their pathetic performances, or one day Test status wil indeed be revoked when other countries refuse to host them or come out outright and refuse to play them even at home.
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