Asif Nazrul, Bangladesh government's sports advisor, said on Wednesday that he would try his best to convince the International Cricket Council (ICC) to relocate Bangladesh's venues for the ICC T20 World Cup, insisting that the governing body of the sport had failed to grasp the gravity of Bangladesh's concerns.

Cricbuzz had earlier reported that Nazrul was expected to meet with BCB directors to assess the situation after the board received a letter from the ICC, following Bangladesh's formal request for a venue change. The BCB had informed the ICC that Bangladesh were unable to travel to India in the aftermath of the recent controversy surrounding Mustafizur Rahman, after the BCCI asked Kolkata Knight Riders to release the Bangladesh pacer.

While the ICC, in its response to the BCB, maintained a status quo on Bangladesh's World Cup fixtures and indicated that it had received no information suggesting security concerns for Bangladesh during the tournament, Nazrul strongly disagreed.

"We sat together with the BCB directors - Bulbul [Aminul Islam] bhai, Faruque bhai and everyone else. Today we discussed the situation and we all agreed that Bangladesh earned qualification for the T20 World Cup through hard work. We are a cricket-crazy nation and we definitely want to play," Nazrul told reporters after the meeting on Wednesday.

"But we do not want to play the World Cup at the cost of national humiliation, at the cost of the security of our cricketers, spectators and journalists, or at the cost of the country's dignity. After reading the letter we received from the ICC today, it felt to us that they have not fully understood the serious security situation that has developed in India for Bangladeshi cricketers," he said.

"To me, it does not feel like only a security issue - it feels like an issue of national humiliation as well. Still, we are primarily treating it as a security issue. When the Indian cricket board itself is telling the Kolkata team that they cannot provide security to this player [Mustafizur], and asking them to drop him from the team - that alone shows there is no environment in India where it is safe to play," he said.