India's proposed tour of Bangladesh includes three ODIs and three T20Is.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has officially initiated the media rights bidding process for its men's home international calendar for 2026-27, which includes a highly anticipated, postponed white-ball series against India.
This move signals a significant push from the BCB to revive bilateral cricket ties with India despite the BCCI remaining strictly non-committal pending diplomatic clearance.
Originally scheduled for August 2025, India’s tour of Bangladesh was postponed to September 2026 following diplomatic tensions between two nations. Earlier this year, the relations hit rock bottom after IPL franchise KKR release Mustafizur Rahman from their roster on BCCI’s instructions while Bangladesh refused to travel to India for the T20 World Cup 2026 citing security concerns.
As part of the bidding process, the BCB has floated an Expression of Interest (EOI) to invite bids for its TV broadcasters, digital platforms, marketing agencies, consortiums and firms for worldwide media rights.
Headlining the tender, the bilateral series against India includes three ODIs and three T20Is. The six-match series is tentatively planned for September 2026, although the fixtures are yet to be officially confirmed.
The media-rights package also includes Bangladesh’s home assignments against other major teams, including a two-match Test series against the West Indies, a two-match Test series against England and a five-match ODI series against Pakistan.
Bidding documents for these rights will became available on July 2, with the BCB setting a deadline of July 22 for all submissions.
Meanwhile, BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia recently clarified that the board will purely follow the Government of India’s directives regarding the resumption of bilateral and multinational sporting ties with Bangladesh.
"The BCCI is a cricketing controlling board, and we have nothing to do with what is going on politically in other countries," Saikia told PTI last month.
"As the BCCI, we follow whatever policy the Government of India has in place regarding participation in bilateral and multinational sporting events. Whatever regulations and policies the central government frames, we follow them, just like any other sports federation, whether it is football, athletics or any other sport," he explained.
Saikia also stated that it doesn't bother the BCCI one bit as to which political party is running the government in Bangladesh.
"We are not concerned with who is running the government in a particular country, whether it is democratically elected, undemocratically elected or an autocratic government. That is none of our business."
"Our job is to run cricket. Whenever there is a scheduled tour to a foreign country for bilateral matches, we will proceed according to our plans and schedules," Saikia said.