Namibia T20 Tournament: Bengal has pulled out of the Global T20 Namibia tournament, where the Indian home team was expected to go up against the Namibia national men’s team, a representative team from PSL’s Lahore Qalandars and a South African home team.

The reason for this is the BCCI’s refusal to allow Indian cricketers to participate in a T20 tournament outside India.

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Debarred from playing in league abroad to protect the value of IPL :-

A senior Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) official told that, “There appears to be a problem because of the format, it appears if it wasn’t T20, there won’t be a problem.”

The BCCI has traditionally barred its assets – the players – from playing in leagues overseas to protect the value of the IPL.

Although there has no official word on the development. Cricket Namibia believed to have informed Qalandars management that the tournament would go on as planned. But now features three teams instead of four.

On 22 July, CAB named a 16-man squad for the tournament:

On 22 July, the CAB named a 16-man squad for the tournament, which will be led by regular captain Abhimanyu Easwaran, and will feature key players such as Shahbaz Ahmed, Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep and Hrithik Chatterjee.

At the time, CAB joint secretary Debabrata Das had told that, “The broadcaster for the tournament came before our president [Avishek Dalmiya] and invited us.

We took this opportunity to play six-seven games before the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy [India’s]. Domestic T20 tournament for men], because we might get a chance to play against a World Cup team.

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Namibia T20 tournament: A chance to prepare for Namibia :-

For Namibia, tournament is a chance to ramp up their preparations for men’s T20 WC to be held in Australia. At the 2021 T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates; Namibia finished fifth in Group 2 after making the Super 12 stage from the preliminary round.

Namibia will play an ODI tri-series in Papua New Guinea after this T20 tournament and will head to Australia; where they have grouped with Sri Lanka, Netherlands and UAE in the first round.

When it was due to be a four-team tournament; it was held from 1 to 9 September in the Namibian capital Windhoek. With the return of Bengal, it may now be a smaller tournament.