The captains of the Indian and Bangladesh under-19 groups abstained from exchanging customary handshakes on the toss forward of the match between the 2 sides on the Below 19 World Cup. The event comes amid cricket ties between the 2 nations taking successful after the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) ousted Bangladesh quick bowler Mustafizur Rahman from the Indian Premier League (IPL) citing “current developments”.
India are being captained by Ayush Mhatre whereas Bangladesh vice-captain Zawad Abrar stood in on the toss. Neither aspect has made a press release on the incident but.
India have already got an unofficial no-handshake coverage towards Pakistan, which began with the senior males’s crew captain Suryakumar Yadav on the Asia Cup late final yr after which unfold to ladies’s cricket and on the males’s u19 stage.
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Three-time IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) launched Mustafizur on January 3 after having purchased him for Rs 9.5 crore within the public sale forward of the 2026 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in December. Delhi Capitals had opened the bidding for the 30-year-old, and Chennai Tremendous Kings challenged, with Mustafizur having turned out for either side previously. KKR entered the fray at Rs 5.4 crore after which managed to maintain CSK at bay.
Since then KKR and their co-owner, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, got here underneath intense criticism on social media and by politicians for signing the Mustafizur, linking it to experiences of assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh in current weeks. KKR’s assertion saying the discharge of Mustafizur on January 3 got here hours after BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia mentioned in a press release that the board will likely be instructing the franchise to take action.
“Because of the current developments which are happening all throughout, BCCI has instructed the franchise KKR to launch one in every of their gamers, Mustafizur Rahman of Bangladesh, from their squad,” Saikia advised the information company ANI. “BCCI has additionally mentioned that in the event that they ask for any substitute, BCCI goes to permit that substitute.”