Dhaka, Jan. 24 -- It is not appropriate for the Bangladesh government and the country's cricket board to refuse participation in the ICC T20 World Cup over their demand of not playing in India citing "security concerns" as a Bangladesh player was dropped from an IPL team, former General Secretary of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, Suyed Ashraful Haque said on Saturday, noting that "Bangladesh has overplayed its hand in this matter".

With ICC replacing Bangladesh's team with Scotland, Haque said it is standard procedure that when a country decides not to participate, the ICC naturally replaces it with another team.

Haque told ANI over the phone that it was not right for Bangladesh to withdraw from the T20 World Cup "just because a Banglade...