After completing the World Cup journey, Bangladesh has to be a spectator for now. Despite winning three each in the previous three World Cups, this time they have to settle for just two. Despite carrying the lantern of hope of playing in the semi-finals, Bangladesh has left the table at number eight due to successive failures.
Despite a disappointing performance, Shakib Al Hasan's team earned huge sums of money. Bangladesh is getting about 2 crore rupees (2,64,00,000 taka) from the prize money of the World Cup.
ICC has allocated a total of 10 million dollars or about 110 crores of prize money for the ongoing World Cup. Each team that leaves before the semi-finals will receive one lakh dollars or about one crore ten lakh taka. Besides, a team got 40 thousand dollars for winning each match in the round robin league.
Bangladesh has won two out of nine matches in this tournament. In addition, the money received by them for playing in the first round is about 1 lakh 80 thousand dollars or 1 crore 97 lakh 73 thousand taka. This is the lowest amount received by any team in the current season. So far three teams including Bangladesh have won two matches.
10 teams have participated in this tournament of world cricket excellence. A total of 48 matches are being played at 10 venues in India.
