Australia, Pakistan, Ireland. Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Oman,UAE & Zimbabwe arrive as Pakistan-India-Bangladesh crisis blows out of proportion

Several participating countries in the 10th edition of the ICC T 20 him International World Cup including Australia, Pakistan, Ireland, the Netherlands, Oman, UAE and Zimbabwe arrived in the island on Monday.
Accordingly, the captains of the respective participating countries are scheduled to meet the media on February 5 Thursday at the precincts of the Mercantile Cricket Association at 12.30 p.m.
World cricket’s short format fast fad showpiece with Sri Lanka as co-hosts to India, will take off with the curtain raiser in Sri Lanka between Pakistan and the Netherlands on Saturday February 7 at 7 p m. In the city metropolis of Colombo’s Singhalese Sports Club Grounds where history will be in the making by the venue staging an international world cup game under floodlights for the first time.
Altogether teams from twenty countries will battle it out for the big trophy stakes with India as the main hosting country.
However, the run up to the world cup has been marred by running politically divided controversies between India and Pakistan where tensions run high over the long ongoing Kashmir crisis that has had its effect on world cricket. It has reached a boiling point of no return with Pakistan set to boycott their world cup match against arch rivals India in Sri Lanka following a government decision not to send its team to the world cup.
While the Pakistan government’s decision has rankled the ire of all India in what is bound to further strain relations between the two countries, Bangladesh’s decision to altogether boycott the world cup over a decision by India’s cricket board to send off Bangladesh cricketer Mustafizur Rahman from playing in the IPL over the killing of a Hindu from India in Bangladesh, has further propounded matters in a three cornered controversy with the ICC st wits end to conducting the world cup by the crisis that has blown out of proportions