The International Cricket Council (ICC) denied on Monday that a security risk assessment had concluded that it was unsafe for Bangladesh to play its T20 World Cup matches in India. Bangladesh’s sports advisor Asif Nazrul had earlier claimed that the world body’s own security assessment had recommended that the situation was not conducive for their team to travel across the border for the tournament which starts in less than a month’s time. But ICC sources close to the developments said that the risk assigned is “low to moderate” and there has been no change to the original itinerary for the mega event. “The ICC’s independent risk assessments, carried out by internationally recognised security experts, do not conclude that Bangladesh cannot play its scheduled matches in India. The overall security risk for the tournament in India has been assessed as low to moderate, which is consistent with the profile of many major global sporting events,” the source said, adding that “the assessments did not identify any specific or direct threat to the Bangladesh team, team officials, …