India, Jan. 12 -- Any chance of the International Cricket Council (ICC) accepting Bangladesh's request to shift its T20 World Cup matches out of India to co-host Sri Lanka seemed to diminish on Monday. It is understood that the global cricket body's independent risk assessments do not identify any specific or direct threat to the Bangladesh squad or team officials if they played in India.

The overall security risk for the tournament in India has been assessed as low to moderate, consistent with the profile of many major global sporting events. ICC has shared this security assessment - carried out by internationally recognised security experts - with Bangladesh.

Based on this, the risk associated with Bangladesh's scheduled fixtures in K...