Sri Lanka or Bangladesh? Who will host Asia Cup 2022

The economic and political crisis in Sri Lanka have taken a drastic turn and the tournament may be shifted to another country.

According to latest reports, suggest the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has kept Bangladesh on stand-by to host the Asia Cup, scheduled to be played in August.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is confident in hosting the competition, but the ACC will take the final decision later this month.

The Australian men’s team has just concluded a month-long tour of Sri Lanka, while the Indian women’s team recently toured the country. However, the ACC doesn’t want to take any chances if the situation deteriorates further, The Indian Express reported.

Pakistan is also in Sri Lanka for the two-match Test series, starting from July 16.

Recently, citizens of the island nation stormed into the President’s house and burned the Prime Minister’s residence, which eventually lead to both leaders expressing their willingness to resign.

In fact, the protestor’s fury came close to the pitch when, during Sri Lanka’s test match against Australia that concluded yesterday, protestors climbed the Galle Fort condemning President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for mismanagement of the country’s finances and demanding his resignation.

Bangladesh has previously hosted the Asia Cup in 2016 and also hosted the T20 World Cup, in 2014, where Sri Lanka beat India to lift the trophy.

Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh will feature in the tournament and will be joined by another Asian side, which could be either UAE, Kuwait, Singapore or Hong Kong, to be decided after a qualifying tournament, for which the schedule is yet to be known.