India, Jan. 27 -- Former Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Yousuf on Tuesday accused the International Cricket Council (ICC) of being "influenced" in its decision to remove Bangladesh from the 2026 T20 World Cup. His remarks, backed by viewership numbers across major cricketing nations, came days after the apex body formally announced Scotland as Bangladesh's replacement.

Taking to social media, Yousuf laid out the viewership math, claiming that the combined audience across 10 of the 20 participating nations - New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Nepal, the Netherlands, Ireland, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan - is less than what Bangladesh generates on its own. However, due to the lack of publicly available data, Hindustan Times cou...