3 min readApr 4, 2026 04:21 PM IST A few days after Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Arun Dhumal called Mustafizur Rahman’s ouster from the league ‘unfortunate’, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) reached out to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to try and explore more cooperation in cricket between the two Asian countries. The Director (Cricket Operations) of the BCB, Nazmul Abedin Fahim, said that the board had recently sent an email to the BCCI and also stayed in constant touch with other boards globally. “We maintain regular communication with various countries’ cricket boards. As part of that regular communication, we recently reached out to the Board of Control for Cricket in India via a letter, through an email, to communicate with them”, Fahim told ANI. In the letter, the BCB mentioned that India’s men’s team was scheduled to tour Bangladesh in September this year, and the women’s team was expected to travel after that, further indicating a thaw in cricketing relations between the subcontinental neighbours. “In the letter, we mentioned …