BCCI set to attend ACC assembly just about

The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) is about to just about attend the Annual Normal Assembly (AGM) of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), to be held in Dhaka on Thursday. The assembly will seal the destiny of the Asia Cup, scheduled to be hosted by India in September.

During the last week, within the backdrop of the political pressure between India and Bangladesh, the BCCI had threatened to boycott the AGM. However on Wednesday, a senior BCCI functionary, preferring anonymity, confirmed to The Hindu that the BCCI will “act as an enormous brother and attend the event just about”.

It’s understood that apart from BCCI, Sri Lanka Cricket will even attend the proceedings by means of videoconferencing. It is usually understood that makes an attempt have been made to have Afghanistan and Oman to skip the AGM with the intention to guarantee lack of a quorum on the AGM, however the ACC chief Mohsin Naqvi ensured the AGM wasn’t in jeopardy.

The BCCI thus agreed to hitch the proceedings. The AGM, in all probability, will verify that the 2025 Asia Cup – unsure within the aftermath of the Operation Sindoor – might be hosted by the BCCI within the United Arab Emirates. Whereas a proposal of asking BCCI to host the event in India can be more likely to be tabled, UAE has emerged because the consensus venue for all the key Boards concerned.