India, Jan. 25 -- Former Pakistan cricketer, Mohammad Yousuf has stepped into cricket's most uncomfortable overlap with geopolitics, using a blunt, public message to question how the game's global regulator applies "security" standards across countries.

In a post on X on Saturday, the former Pakistan captain said it was "very sad" to see a cricket-loving nation like Bangladesh being "deprived of cricket" because security concerns were, in his view, not addressed, and he argued that the ICC's approach has lacked consistency.

Yousuf's tweet is constructed like a fairness brief, not a rant. He begins with an emotional appeal - Bangladesh as a "cricket-loving nation" - before shifting quickly to the core charge: precedent. "When similar con...