Shifts focus on domestic cricket<\/strong>
\nThe stalemate between Bangladesh Cricket Board and Sri Lanka Cricket came to a disappointing end on Monday with BCB president Nazmul Hasan calling off the tour after the boards failed to reach an agreement on the quarantine policy.
\nBangladesh national team was supposed to fly for Sri Lanka on September 27 for a three-Test series but things got derailed when Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 Taskforce remained adamant about their two-week mandatory quarantine rule for all new arrivals.
\nBCB asked for a shorter quarantine period and SLC also voiced BCB\u2019s demands to its higher authorities, but they refused to budge from their stance.
\nThe BCB chief, after inaugurating a food distribution programme at the BCB Academy ground on the occasion of prime minister Sheikh Hasina\u2019s 74th birth anniversary, told the reporters that due to Sri Lankan government\u2019s stern health regulations, the series could not go ahead.
\n\u2018After we cleared our stand about quarantine rules Sri Lanka Cricket contacted several authorities and expressed our demands which were mostly accepted. But both the boards got stuck on one clause which is the most important thing, the 14-day quarantine policy which is mandatory,\u2019 Nazmul said.
\n\u2018Sri Lanka series will be rescheduled when there will not be any issues regarding a quarantine. But the practice of the cricketers will go on for 15 more days,\u2019 he added.
\nLater on the day BCB gave an official statement, saying that the series, which is part of the ICC Test Championship, has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a suitable time.
\n\u2018After a careful review of the guideline, the BCB has communicated to the SLC that the circumstances do not allow us to proceed with the tour at this stage,\u2019 BCB chief executive officer Nizamuddin Chowdhury was quoted as saying in the statement.
\n\u2018The BCB and SLC are committed to fulfilling respective FTP itineraries and will work together on rescheduling this series to a mutually agreeable window in the near future,\u2019 he added.
\nThis is the second time the series has been postponed as it was originally scheduled to take place in July but got pushed back to October-November due to the pandemic.
\nNazmul had earlier said that the board will look to restart domestic cricket if the Sri Lanka series fell through and on Monday he mentioned two new tournaments that are currently in the works.
\n\u2018We have talked about resumption of domestic cricket with few possibilities. We could either organise a corporate league with few teams or we could organise a tournament with national team players, High Performance unit players and Under-19 players,\u2019 said the BCB chief.
\nNazmul also said that they will finalise the details of the proposed tournaments in the next 5-6 days.
\nThe BCB president also said that they are not thinking about hosting international series in the current situation and want to focus on resuming Dhaka Premier League, which has been put on hold since mid-March, and other pending domestic competitions.
\n\u2018We can bring any team if we want to, but I would like to observe the global situation. If we can run the domestic tournaments successfully, then we can think about inviting a foreign team, not now,\u2019 he said.
\n\u2018We have to finish the pending [Dhaka Premier] League and prepare for the next season\u2019s league as well. Maybe this year\u2019s league will be shortened to a single-league format, because we want to finish by this year if possible. Gradually we will start first division, second division and other competitions.\u2019<\/p>\n

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