By Admin 
Former Australian cricketer Jason Gillespie had to delete his post, which he had made after Bangladesh was eliminated from the T20 World Cup. Gillespie also gave the reason for deleting this post. Let us tell you that Gillespie has also been the coach of Pakistan. In fact, a few days ago, ICC excluded Bangladesh from T20 World Cup 2026 and included Scotland in their place. This decision was taken when BCB remained adamant on the decision of not sending its team to India, whereas it was very difficult for ICC to change the schedule in such a short time.
BCB’s demand came after Mustafizur Rahman was dropped from the IPL, with less than a month left for the start of the T20 World Cup. BCB remained adamant that if their matches were not shifted to Sri Lanka, they would boycott the tournament, even after much persuasion by ICC, BCB did not agree. The result was that Bangladesh was thrown out of the tournament. On this, former Australian cricketer Jason Gillespie gave his opinion and made a controversial post.
First tweet, then delete
Gillespie wrote in the tweet, “Is there any explanation given by ICC to BCB as to why their team cannot play outside India? I remember India refused to play Champions Trophy in Pakistan, then ICC allowed them to play their matches outside Pakistan. What does this mean?”
After this, many derogatory comments started coming on his post, after which he had to delete this tweet. When asked by a Pakistani user on social media, Jason Gillespie said that he was abused even for asking a simple question, so he deleted that tweet.
Why did ICC not change Bangladesh’s schedule?
It is also wrong to compare India with Bangladesh because during the Champions Trophy, BCCI was adamant from the beginning on the demand that their matches should be thrown out, whereas Bangladesh was earlier ready to play in India but started making such unreasonable demand 3 weeks before the tournament. Whatever the reason, but ICC had made it clear that it is impossible to change the schedule in such a short time considering logistics, hotel booking etc. BCB cited security, after which ICICI got an assessment done by a world level agency regarding the security threat in India. It came to light that there is no threat to Bangladesh team in India, despite which BCB remained adamant on its demand. In the end, ICC had to exclude Bangladesh from T20 World Cup 2026 and include Scotland.