India, Jan. 27 -- Cricket Scotland chief executive Trudy Lindblade said she had "certainly" felt for Bangladesh's players after Scotland were invited into the men's T20 World Cup as a late replacement. Lindblade stressed Scotland didn't want to reach a World Cup this way, even as they accepted the ICC invitation.

"We certainly have for the Bangladesh team," Trudy Lindblade, Cricket Scotland's Australian chief executive, said on Monday, when asked if she had sympathy for the side they had replaced. "Obviously, this is not how we wanted to go to a World Cup. There is a qualification process and nobody wants to qualify or attend or be invited to a World Cup in the way that we have done. We acknowledge it is certainly unique circumstances by...