Aus visit almost certain
Cricket Australia's CEO James Sutherland has said that Australia have a high chance of touring Bangladesh in late 2017.
Speaking to ABC radio yesterday, Sutherland said: “I think they are quite high,” when asked about the chances of the tour going ahead.
“What we saw at the end of last year was the England team tour Bangladesh. We certainly saw very strong security around the team. We actually sent our head of security, Sean Carroll, over to observe for seven or 10 days, just to get a little bit of comfort on the systems and processes that were in place.
"Anything can happen between now and then, and we continue to monitor what's happening in Bangladesh, but we work on the assumption that we're going to play and we start to plan accordingly. At the moment I would assume that we would be playing two Tests over there," he added.
Chairman of Bangladesh Cricket Board's media wing, Jalal Yunus, said that he was happy to hear the positive statement from Sutherland.
“They came here during the England series and were quite satisfied. Honestly speaking, it was always safe to play in Bangladesh and it still is. The kind of security that our government provides is state level and it's not easy to penetrate that. The teams are given VVIP security.
“We know that they want to come here in September 2017 to play two Tests and we are happy. We want to play as many Tests as possible. We are yet to fix an official schedule for the tour,” Yunus told The Daily Star yesterday.
Australia were supposed to tour Bangladesh in September 2015. However, Cricket Australia (CA) postponed that tour indefinitely on security grounds. The CA also did not send its Under-19 team to Bangladesh to take part in the World Cup. They were the only team to back out.
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