Cricket Australia to determine whether Bangladesh tour will go ahead

MELBOURNE, Sept. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Cricket Australia (CA) will determine the future of the Australian team’s two-Test tour of Bangladesh on Monday, following their decision to postpone the tour due to safety concerns.
CA’s Anti-Corruption and Security Manager Sean Carroll along with team security are in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka for ” high-level meetings” to determine if the tour can go ahead, reports Xinhua.

CA had issued a statement on Saturday stating that security concerns had prompted the body to postpone the tour because militant groups posed a “credible threat” to foreign tourists.
The release followed advice from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and national security organization ASIO, which informed Cricket Australia there was “reliable information to suggest that militants may be planning to target Australian interests”.
On Sunday, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan met with CA’s Carroll, saying that although Bangladesh had acknowledged the threat, Bangladesh was safe to host the tour.
“They have information that Australian interest is under threat but that is not confined to Bangladesh, it is also in other neighboring countries,” Hassan told the CA website on Monday.
“This is their concern. But I have told them that Bangladesh is one of the safest places for cricket, especially now.”
“I don’t belong to the security or the intelligence agencies. I told them, ‘If you need a clearer picture, you please talk to the intelligence’.”
Meanwhile CA’s executive general manager of team performance, Pat Howard told SEN radio on Monday that Bangladesh was a ” fantastic place to tour, and all players were hopeful that the tour would go ahead.”
“We toured Bangladesh in 2014 for the World Twenty20 tournament and it was a fantastic tour,” Howard said.
“There’s nothing wrong with Bangladesh, it’s just this threat we’ve got over the last couple of days.”
The two-Test tour was scheduled to begin in Chittagong on Oct. 9.  Enditem