No opening ceremony for World Twenty20

             Host Bangladesh will not organize any opening ceremony in the forthcoming ICC World Twenty20 scheduled to be staged next year as they will not receive any extra funding from the event, said Bangladesh Cricket Board officials on Monday.
 

            Bangladesh hosted a gala opening ceremony

in the last edition of the ICC World Cup in 2011 where they were co-hosts alongside India and Sri Lanka and earned plaudits for the show but there is no chance of any such thing to be repeated in the forthcoming mega event to be participated by the Test playing countries and associate members of the ICC in the men’s and women’s category.

              ‘The ICC will provide funds for running the tournament but won’t distribute any money for the opening ceremony so we decided to skip the programme from the schedule,’ said Iqbal Haider Mallick, an ad-hoc committee member of BCB, to reporters on Monday.  
‘We decided to organize a concert a day before the start of the tournament,’ said Mallick, also a member of the local organizing committee of the 2014 ICC World T20.
 

              Meanwhile the ICC Twenty20 logo will be launched on April 6 which is expected to reach Dhaka on Wednesday.
Jalal Yunus, chairman of BCB media and communications, added that they are expecting to arrange a grand show on the logo launching programme of the Twenty 20 tournament to be held at Hotel Radisson tomorrow.  
 

           ‘The logo launching event will constitute of three major programmes among which magician Jewel Aich will perform his magic as well as two reputed bands who will perform songs.’ said Yunus.