Bangladesh has everything in it and Bangladesh Cricket Board has proved their worth by successfully organising the International Cup cricket tournament, Richard said.
Paying rich tributes to the BCB officials he said, ``It's a great success and the organisers have done an extremely great job''.
``Cricket crowd in this country are wonderful and very supportive to the game. They are knowledgeable. Facilities are excellent'', the ICC chief executive said.
The facilities, arrangements, capabilities of hosting major international competitions convinced the ICC officials and that will definitely help Bangladesh cricket in the days to come, Richard said.
Regarding ICC support to Bangladesh, he said bringing this mini-World Cup in Dhaka was a great support as the projection of the country reached every corner of the world. The cricket lovers across the world got the idea about Bangladesh and its ability to organise such a major cricket event and saw the infrastructure through television.
Besides some other development programmes would be taken in Bangladesh as part of globalisation of cricket and ICC's Asian development officer and former Pakistani test cricketer Nasimul Ghani will visit Bangladesh after Ramadan to discuss programme for the development of cricket.
Regarding the appeal for Test status, he said Bangladesh must play more first class matches at home and abroad as well as introduce first class cricket in the country and all these things would be reviewed by the three-member sub-committee headed by Boby Simpson.
The committee will submit a report to ICC and it would be discussed in the next ICC meeting in June next year.
Chairman of the ICC Cricket committee Sir Clyde Walcott also highly appreciated the cricket crowd terming as ``very knowledgeable crowd''.
``And it indicates bright future of Bangladesh cricket,'' he said on Sunday.
Asia cup postponed
The Asia Cup cricket tournament scheduled to be played in Dhaka in March next year will, in all probability be postponed till the winter. This was done mainly to accommodate India's tour of Pakistan, which will start on January 21 and end on March 15. Pakistan will play three Test matches and three one dayers in India.
However, in the discussions that have gone on here between the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Raj Singh Dungarpur and his Pakistan counterpart Khaled Mahmood, the test centres that have been more or less finalised are Calcutta, Bangalore and Madras. Mohali in Chandigarh will certainly be hosting a one day international. The other two venues are yet to be finalised. The Pakistani Board, however, made it very clear that they would not play in Mumbai under any circumstances.