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Tigers' next New Zealand tour reckon on time

Published : Sunday, 24 March, 2019 at 12:00 AM
Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan
The Christchurch mosque attack on March 15, is one of the deadliest and horrifying among individual gunman assails in the history, which New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern termed as "one of New Zealand's darkest days". Fifty-men were shoot-dead on the spot and visiting Bangladesh cricket team escaped narrowly, who called off the tour immediately yet before rolling the final Test of the series.
The security of cricketers claimed global attention once again from that day, which inflamed the atmosphere after attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009 in Pakistan. Cricket is in exile in Pakistan since then. Scared if cricket be deported from New Zealand now! Afraid not but when Black Capes will get some fresh air to breathe in?
"There is hope to be found in dark days and cricket and sport will once again play a critical role in drawing together our country at this time," said the Grant Robertson, the sports minister of New Zealand, on the very next Friday (on March 22) of the shooting.
According to the Future Tour Programs (FTP) of the ICC, men in red and green are scheduled to visit New Zealand in October next year for a three-match bilateral T20i series, which is under question after bloody attacks within Tigers gazing zone in Christchurch.
"My hope is that in time the players and supporters will feel safe enough to return to New Zealand and I know that they know that they will be welcomed with open arms," Robertson expected.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan both spoke explicitly that they are not willing to send cricketers in any corner of the world before getting security assurances. Therefore, the fate of the 2020's Bangladesh travel in New Zealand before the ICC T20 World Cup in Australia, which is schedule to take place in October-November, hang on the time.  






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