Bangladesh to host the 2014 Asia Cup

Asian Cricket council(ACC) has finalised the venue of Asia cup 2014 in a meeting held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Jan 4th. Bangladesh is going to host this year Asia cup from February 25th to march 8th,which is second time in a row for Bangladesh.Where as,Afghanistan is the new inclusion into this years tournament.This is first time that Afghanistan is participating in Asia cup.
According to sources there was a suspicion in Bangladesh hosting the Asia cup due to the political disturbances as well as security issues earlier in Dhaka.Regarding this years tournament Sri Lanka showed much interest in hosting the series if in case Bangladesh failed to clear security issues.But however Bangladesh was determined in hosting the tournament and retained the hosting rights.

Bangladesh Cricket Board’s(BCB) acting CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said. “We have given a very good presentation to the ACC board members, and they have been convinced that we can host the tournament.
There will be a total of 5 teams participating in this years edition which includes Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.With the inclusion of an extra team (Afghanistan) the total number of matches has been increased to 11.

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