Cricket Scotland chief executive Trudy Lindblade said the team sympathises with Bangladesh following their exclusion from the T20 World Cup, admitting that Scotland did not want to qualify for the showpiece event under such circumstances.
Cricket Scotland chief executive Trudy Lindblade said the team empathised with Bangladesh’s situation, stressing that this was not how they had hoped to qualify for a World Cup.
Scotland will now feature in the league stage of the World Cup, with all of their group matches scheduled to be played in India.
In November last year, Haq, Scotland's all-time leading wicket-taker, told Sky Sports News that Cricket Scotland was "institutionally racist", while former team-mate Qasim Sheikh claimed he had also suffered racist abuse.
The match was scheduled to be part of Australia's tour of the United Kingdom with a limited-overs series against England to follow.
The tournament was scheduled to run from August 30 to September 22 and culminate in two semi-finals and a final in Malahide and was due to feature the likes of Eoin Morgan and Mohammad Amir.
