Australian wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy said that she was complacent about playing in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, to be held in Bangladesh later this year. The potitical scenario in the Asian country isn’t the best after the students protested against the government, after which their Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned.

Healy, who toured Bangladesh earlier this year for a T20I and ODI series, felt that hosting the T20 World Cup would put more pressure on a country that is going through a turmoil.

“I’d find it hard to fathom playing there [in Bangladesh] at the moment, as a human being, I feel like it might be the wrong thing to do,” Healy was quoted as saying in Cricbuzz.

“(That would be) taking resources away from a country that is really struggling. They’re needing everyone they can possibly get in there helping people that are dying,” she said.

‘I will leave it to the ICC’

With uncertainties over Bangladesh hosting the T20 World Cup, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is being deemed one of the alternatives. Zimbabwe have also put their hands up to host the multi-nation event.

Healy, one of Australia’s greatest cricketers on the women’s circuit, said that she would respect any call taken by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

“There’s obviously bigger factors at play than putting a cricket tournament on in Bangladesh at the moment … but I’ll leave it to the ICC to work out,” Healy added.
India was also one of the options, but Jay Shah, the Honourary Secretary of the BCCI, ruled out chances of hosting the T20 World Cup.

For now, the T20 World Cup is scheduled to get underway on Thursday, October 3. Heather Knight’s England and Laura Wolvaardt’s South Africa will face each other in the opening match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.