Cricket Australia (CA) and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) are stuck over the timing and format for Australia’s make-up tour of Bangladesh tentatively scheduled for later this year, after the previously planned visit by Steven Smiths’ team was scuppered due to security concerns.
As per the Future Tours Programme (FTP), Australia was scheduled to play two Tests and a tour match in Dhaka and Chittagong in October 2015, but the tour was postponed over security concerns.
It has been reported that the CA has suggested changing the tour to an ODI-only visit ahead of the limited-overs tour of India scheduled for October before the home Ashes summer, according to cricinfo.
BCB is believed to have relayed to CA its preference for the tour to remain as originally mapped out, partly because the national team is presently in arguably the richest vein of Test-match form in its history, having registered wins over England and Sri Lanka in recent months.
Bangladesh’s other reasons for maintaining the tour’s format is that they have other proposed tours that clash with CA’s plan. The Tigers are set to play Pakistan in July and August, before touring South Africa from mid-September to late October.
