Bangladesh has formed a three-member committee to investigate the reason behind the country’s withdrawal from the 2026 T20 World Cup, a senior government official said on Monday.
The country’s ministry of youth and sports said the inquiry will examine the circumstances behind Bangladesh’s non-participation in the tournament co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka.
Secretary Mahbub Ul Alam said the committee will be headed by Dr. AKM Oli Ullah, additional secretary in the ministry and would also include former national cricket captain and ex-chief selector Habibul Bashar, along with Supreme Court lawyer and sports organiser Barrister Faisal Dastagir.
According to officials, the panel will look into why Bangladesh decided to skip the tournament and whether there were any failures at the administrative, diplomatic, or planning level. The committee has been asked to submit its findings within 15 working days.
Earlier, Bangladesh had raised security concerns before the T20 World Cup and requested that its matches be moved from India to Sri Lanka. However, the International Cricket Council (ICC) did not approve the request.
Later, the ICC replaced Bangladesh with Scotland in the 20-team event after the Bangladesh Cricket Board chose not to take part in the scheduled matches, saying its security concerns had not been fully addressed.
This decision came even though the ICC had maintained that there were no credible or confirmed security threats to the Bangladesh team in India.
After Aminul Haque was appointed as youth and sports minister, the government promised a formal investigation to fix accountability for the withdrawal decision.
