BCB to foot Zim’s bills
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will pay the hotel bill for four additional days that the touring Zimbabwe team will stay in the country after their last match ended yesterday in a consolation T20I tri-series win against Afghanistan in Chattogram.
Having lost the first three games, Zimbabwe were already out of the tournament and the visitors were scheduled to fly from Dhaka to Singapore, where they will participate in a tri-nation series, on September 25.
As per standard practice, the host board is supposed to pay the hotel bill of touring teams till the day after their last match. If Zimbabwe had made the final on September 24, the arrangement would have been the usual with the team set to fly out the following day.
Since Zimbabwe’s last match was yesterday, they will need to stay an additional four days as they are set to conduct a small camp in Dhaka before departing.
It was also learned that the BCB have paid the plane fare of the Zimbabwe team, for which Zimbabwe will reimburse the BCB later.
“It is standard practice that a home board bears all the expenses of the touring teams. Even if there are some financial issues of the touring party, the home board tackles it and later sends an invoice to the respective boards. It’s an internal matter between the boards,” BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury told The Daily Star yesterday.
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