CA, BCB negotiating format, timing of potential Australia visit
Australia and Bangladesh are at odds over the timing and format of the tour tentatively scheduled for later this year after the previously planned visit by Steven Smiths' team was scuppered due to security concerns.
While the Future Tours Programme has Australia visiting Bangladesh in July for two Test matches as per the original 2015 plan, it has been reported that Cricket Australia (CA) suggested changing the tour to an ODI-based visit ahead of the limited-overs tour of India scheduled for October before the home Ashes summer.
However the Bangladesh Cricket Board (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.
Among Bangladesh's other reasons for maintaining the tour's current place is that they have other proposed tours that clash with CA's plan. Bangladesh are set to play Pakistan in July and August, before touring South Africa from mid-September to late October.
The Australian proposal would by contrast maintain consistency for Smith's team in the wake of the Champions Trophy in England. It would also allow for the selection of a limited overs-specific squad that would in turn offer the opportunity for numerous Test players to play a full Sheffield Shield schedule at home leading into the Ashes.
CA and the players also need to consider rolling security assessments for Australian nationals in Bangladesh; previously, the Australian government's travel-advice website had warned that Australians were subject to a specific threat in Bangladesh, leading to the cancellation of the 2015 tour. The current travel advice for Australians visiting the region is to "reconsider your need to travel" in light of "reliable information to suggest that militants may be planning to target Western interests in Bangladesh". A CA spokesperson said security remained a primary concern.
"We are still hopeful of touring Bangladesh in the near future but the safety of players and officials will always come first," he said. "We will continue to monitor advice from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and our own security advisors about the security risk for any future tours of the Australian team in Bangladesh and make a decision based on this advice closer to any potential tour."
Discussions between CA and the BCB are ongoing.
Daniel Brettig is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. @danbrettig
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So Australia wants Bangladesh to cancel or postpone their pre-planned SA tour to accommodate the delayed arrival of Aussies, which still i doubt as they cancelled tours two times last moment. Moreover they want ODI series instead of original test series just to help Aussies for their preparation of odi series in India. And Aussis want delayed series because they dont want ti go back to australia after touring bangladesh instead they want to go india right after BD tour. I find this is completely wrong by a mighty team to another test nation. I woyld say BD should never listen to these type humiliated proposal.
Winning the ODI series in BD is going to be a toough task for aus.
Big boys don't play a part in developing other's game. That's d proof of it. It's always easy to say no to or negotiate with comparatively weaker teams. Shame on u Cricket Australia.
i hope this comes to fruition with test matches. i would love to see us tour Bangladesh as it will be an exciting competitive series. Bangladesh are developing in to a very exciting side plus it's a good excuse for me to visit Dhaka and watch some good cricketd. cheers.
Do not see Australia touring Bangladesh anytime in 2017.Bangladesh are slated to host Pakistan in mid-2017 after the CT in England.Bangladesh then proceed on their 1st tour of SA in 9 years in Sep-Oct'17 the slot when Australia were last slated to tour Bangladesh in 2015-a tour ostensibly cancelled on account of security concerns in a year BD did exceedingly well reaching their maiden WC QF in Australia followed by a hat trick of ODI series wins albeit all at home against Pakistan,India & SA.Australia after completing their 4th consecutive away Ashes series defeat in England in 2015 did not seem to be in their best of form under new captain Smith to tour BD. With the home Ashes looming in Nov'17,unless OZ agree to tour BD in Aug-Sep'17,an Bangladesh-Australia full series seems unlikely in 2017.Hope Bangladesh complete the quadruple of Test series defeats for Australia in Asia when the tour actually happens in the near future to join Pakistan(2014),SL(2016) & India(2017) in thumping OZ.
@cricfan9721770951: Looks like people are misinterpreting my comment. I didn't undermine Fizz, he just hasn't had a record to speak of in tests irrespective of no.of matches he played. I don't think he even has an 5 or 4 wicket haul in tests, did he ? Sorry, I'm lazy to search & check his profile for stats. My comment was regarding ODI's with out Fizz. Tell me off late how many ODI's & T20's have won with Fizz & with out Fizz, you'll know the difference.
there is no pint to go to BD to play some ODIs. waste of time.
Kind of clueless arguments over bangladesh cricket shows neither they follow the game properly or they have always a feeling that bangladesh shouldn't be playing good at all.
Take a look in fizz test statistics,,he played only 4match 6innings and take 12wkt at 23avrg,,,& still some rubbish said that fizz is not good in test!!!
SERIOUS-AM-I: Mustafiz is young and has hardly played any test matches to generate a proper understanding of him as a bowler in tests. However, he has repeatedly shown traits and skills of a great fast bowler. His economy and average are still excellent for any fast bowler. Regardless of the fact that he is more or less a slow bowler in terms of pace, he is able to tie down runs really well to pressuring batsmen in scoring off of unorthodox shots and eventually getting out to him. He makes good use of swing, both in and out, and of course he uses his cutters to good effect. So far, he has bowled a few match-defining spells. One such spell was a 5 over spell of him drying up runs and creating chances such that 3 SA wickets (Amla, Duminy, QDK) fell to him in 4 balls. This helped BD get a 100 run lead before rain stopped play altogether. He also helped change the 2nd SL test match completely by THAT spell, putting BD in a dominant position to win the match. Which they went on to do.
So Australia wants Bangladesh to cancel or postpone their pre-planned SA tour to accommodate the delayed arrival of Aussies, which still i doubt as they cancelled tours two times last moment. Moreover they want ODI series instead of original test series just to help Aussies for their preparation of odi series in India. And Aussis want delayed series because they dont want ti go back to australia after touring bangladesh instead they want to go india right after BD tour. I find this is completely wrong by a mighty team to another test nation. I woyld say BD should never listen to these type humiliated proposal.
Winning the ODI series in BD is going to be a toough task for aus.
Big boys don't play a part in developing other's game. That's d proof of it. It's always easy to say no to or negotiate with comparatively weaker teams. Shame on u Cricket Australia.
i hope this comes to fruition with test matches. i would love to see us tour Bangladesh as it will be an exciting competitive series. Bangladesh are developing in to a very exciting side plus it's a good excuse for me to visit Dhaka and watch some good cricketd. cheers.
Do not see Australia touring Bangladesh anytime in 2017.Bangladesh are slated to host Pakistan in mid-2017 after the CT in England.Bangladesh then proceed on their 1st tour of SA in 9 years in Sep-Oct'17 the slot when Australia were last slated to tour Bangladesh in 2015-a tour ostensibly cancelled on account of security concerns in a year BD did exceedingly well reaching their maiden WC QF in Australia followed by a hat trick of ODI series wins albeit all at home against Pakistan,India & SA.Australia after completing their 4th consecutive away Ashes series defeat in England in 2015 did not seem to be in their best of form under new captain Smith to tour BD. With the home Ashes looming in Nov'17,unless OZ agree to tour BD in Aug-Sep'17,an Bangladesh-Australia full series seems unlikely in 2017.Hope Bangladesh complete the quadruple of Test series defeats for Australia in Asia when the tour actually happens in the near future to join Pakistan(2014),SL(2016) & India(2017) in thumping OZ.
@cricfan9721770951: Looks like people are misinterpreting my comment. I didn't undermine Fizz, he just hasn't had a record to speak of in tests irrespective of no.of matches he played. I don't think he even has an 5 or 4 wicket haul in tests, did he ? Sorry, I'm lazy to search & check his profile for stats. My comment was regarding ODI's with out Fizz. Tell me off late how many ODI's & T20's have won with Fizz & with out Fizz, you'll know the difference.
there is no pint to go to BD to play some ODIs. waste of time.
Kind of clueless arguments over bangladesh cricket shows neither they follow the game properly or they have always a feeling that bangladesh shouldn't be playing good at all.
Take a look in fizz test statistics,,he played only 4match 6innings and take 12wkt at 23avrg,,,& still some rubbish said that fizz is not good in test!!!
SERIOUS-AM-I: Mustafiz is young and has hardly played any test matches to generate a proper understanding of him as a bowler in tests. However, he has repeatedly shown traits and skills of a great fast bowler. His economy and average are still excellent for any fast bowler. Regardless of the fact that he is more or less a slow bowler in terms of pace, he is able to tie down runs really well to pressuring batsmen in scoring off of unorthodox shots and eventually getting out to him. He makes good use of swing, both in and out, and of course he uses his cutters to good effect. So far, he has bowled a few match-defining spells. One such spell was a 5 over spell of him drying up runs and creating chances such that 3 SA wickets (Amla, Duminy, QDK) fell to him in 4 balls. This helped BD get a 100 run lead before rain stopped play altogether. He also helped change the 2nd SL test match completely by THAT spell, putting BD in a dominant position to win the match. Which they went on to do.
@AMBITIOUSSTROKE: Fizz hasn't won any match single handedly in tests mate. It will be like saying Umesh won the 4th test for India vs Aus where as that wasn't the case, even though he was the reason for Aussies collapse, more over I wasn't debating on what Fizz did or didn't, I was just responding to Awal's statement regarding BD winning test with out Fizz, whereas I was talking about limited over formats.
I dont mind Aus not touring Bangladesh but they should pay compensation money to BCB. BCB also paid PCB for not touring in 2012.
@SERIOUS-AM-I Mostafiz has won the 2nd test match against SL with some help from Sakib. Watch the highlight of the match u will understand. Ask the SL fans they will also agree with me.
@A.Awal: mate I was referring of Fizz in limited overs formats & not test matches. Fizz hasn't done anything special in tests yet.
I hope Australia will visit Bangladesh, will play Test match as per their commitment instead of One dayers. And that will definitely help Bangladesh to grow as a Test nation.
Test cricket is boring T20 is the best
@A.AWAL the aus tour in aug - sep is this series. as australia pulled the plug in 2015, cricket australia agreed to play the series in bangladesh instead
Australia are waiting for the Marsh Brothers to recover!
@ SERIOUS-AM-I ; BAN defeat ENG in test without Fizz Bro. FYKI.
Apart from 2015, 2 test series BAN have another away tour to AUS (2 Test & 3ODI's) this AUG-SEP, What about that? If AUS don't want to come then BAN will visit for that series before SA tour.
There is no meaning of ODI instead of Test. Bangladesh should stick with Test ( I prefer 3 Test) series.
Sakib Al Hasan got 5 wicket haul against all the test playing nations except Aus, that's because he never got the chance to play against them. Since his debut in 2006, BD never played any test against Aussies (OMG!!!!). This could be a very good opportunity....But....Come on Aussies, come to BD and Play some tests.......
Bangladesh recent test playing team do not have any experience to play test against AUS. Though some of them are playing for 10 years and more. So whatever the reason AUS and BCB should stick to the plan to play TEST matches.
Rkks commitment is for test so why would Bangladesh want to play one day .who care how many time they are World Cup winner .Bangladesh is trying to improve on test matches.
Viratfan.. yawn.. yawn...
Test or ODI, the great baggy green-yellow may have lost some edges by not coming last year as originally set. Tigers are now somewhat stronger bunch with a test win against Eng at home, a draw with SL in SL, and some good ODIs results as well. Who knows what lies ahead for Aus in Ban! Watch out the Tigers at their own den :) GL to both teams...
A silver lining for selectors - no selection issues for them. Great, we can all have some relief from the comedy show.
@RK_KS, forget about the past, focus on present. Aus wants ODIs instead of Tests, whereas BD wants Test series as in FTP. This tells you the actual story. Please try to accept the reality! Disrespect in the sense that Aus wants to dictate another test nation by asking them to change their other commitments to accommodate the series in a different time only to assist Aussies for their other tour, asking to change the series from Tests to ODIs.
@RK_KS, forget about the past, focus on present. Aus wants ODIs instead of Tests, whereas BD wants Test series as in FTP. This tells you the actual story. Please try to accept the reality! Disrespect in the sense that Aus wants to dictate another test nation by asking them to change their other commitments to accommodate the series in a different time only to assist Aussies for their other tour, asking to change the series from Tests to ODIs.
Forget cricket history for a bit and look at the present. CA wants ODI and BCB wants test!!!!! That sums up today's cricketing world. Is there anybody talking about any sort of myths???
@cricfan58609100: I agree with the fact Lyon won't be successful, as BD wickets hardly give a good bounce for spinners, Lyon failed when the ball didn't bounce much. As for O'Kefee, he isn't a threatening one unless you provide him rank turners, any team should play him freely as long as the wickets are fine. I'm not sure about if Smith can continue his form though, as he'll be pretty tired if he plays the entire IPL, along with CT. There's quite a bit of gap to continue the test form. I think BD has a decent squad to challenge Aus in ODI's as well with Fizz, minus Fizz BD is beatable any day by most opponents even Afghans defeated them. @zahid_roar_of_tigers: Nice to see a sane BD fan in the mess. @PerniciousStorm: Kiwis aren't usually terror targets, unlike Aus who'd terror acts in their nation & they're fighting with NATO as well. For that matter even Aus toured BD in the past, didn't they ? I recall Jason Gillespie scoring 200 in one of the tests.
I would take this article with a grain of salt, there has been no reports of this on any cricket website in Australia including cricket.com.au, There has been no commitment to any tour of Bangladesh.
@bangla_slog: That's an good idea for a full series for BD in Aus but it won't be financially viable for Aus, which is one of the reasons why teams hesitate to invite BD. Their record does no good either to contradict it, other teams at least managed to hang on to an draw once in a while even in their earlier days but BD has been known for losing nearly 98 out of 100 matches (no need of an debate over this, just a view from my Aussie friends). BD has beaten AUS once in their entire cricketing history (plz no U-19 & A team results, no one keeps a track of it & it doesn't matter either). If AUS tour BD & BD gives a good fight to Aus, then automatically they will earn an call if by a miracle BD manage to win a test or series against Aus, then no need to worry or wonder, you'll be automatically added to their future FTP just to avenge the series loss.
@PHILLY.ROCKS: Disrespect. Getting to play against Australia it self is a big achievement for you. They won 5 world cups. Bangladesh didn't even play a world cup final. BD is playing cricket from 20 odd years and they still can't challenge top teams.
Bangladesh getting a taste of their own medicine
Australia should follow the recent tour of England to Bangladesh
This is crazy. Bangladesh wants to play test and Australia wants to play LOI. Haha, who would've thunk this few years back?
I am an Indian but love this Bangla team because of their strong fighting spirit. Equally hate this Australian team and its current captain - who cheats , abuses and then says sorry at the end as if the word 'sorry' is medicine to all pain that he has given to cricket lovers in India.The Australians think themselves as powerhouse in their own backyard. They fear playing in sub-continent and I am more than sure that Bangladesh will Australia a crushing defeat. Security fears draw no boundary between ODI or test. If Australia wants to come to Bangladesh then let them show guts to play Test as planned originally. C'mon Bangladesh.
@Marcio, I read the article but it seems to be saying a lot less than it is implying. I really don't think CA should be trying to back out of the original tour schedule, it seems mightily unfair to me and would also force Bangladesh to re-schedule other tours which have already been agreed upon. July is really not that far away and the decision on whether it is safe or not should have already been made, unless something untoward happens in Bangladesh in the next 12 weeks they should be going.
Australia wouldn't win a single odi in mirpur. Bangladesh are dangerous in odis at home. It's rather better to play tests. Playing odi series with Bangladesh in their own backyard will demoralise aussies further before india tour.
If you guys do not want to follow the original schedule then no need to come to BD dear Australians. We BD people do not want to humiliate by you anymore. You can come to India few days ahead to take your preparation. We will not mind. But please do not spoil the spirit of cricket. This is my request.
Australia-where the legacy of cricket lives.Where the prime form of cricket is celebrated..Are they drunk
This absolutely ridiculous. Aus wants an ODI series instead of original Test series just because they want this series to be the practice for their India tour (ODI series only). Then why bother coming, mate! Do your preparation at UAE and go straight to India. I feel this as disrespect to team Bangladesh who is in a very good form right now.
Thanks..DHAWALA05 ,for your comment.Australia should not be given a chance to play only one day internationals.One day internationals can be added. But without test matches ,no need to come here in Bangladesh.
Aus is having a fear of a test loss to bangladesh really bad move by Aus As a srilankan fan plz BCB dont play odis just go with tests Asian teams never get second to countries like Eng Aus
If Australia does not feel safe to come over, why dont they offer Bangladesh a full tour in Australia? It would be beneficial for both countries.
I really would like to stay Aussies out of this tour. Test, ODI,T20s.. it does not matter. If this helps, a good excuse for them would be citing security. Yeah it is lame, but it worked last time.
@Marcio:- I don't see your problem, as I said, "If the security situation is deemed acceptable". That would of course depend on advice from the relevant security agencies. If we decide to go I believe we should play the games we agreed to. Now I still don't understand your issue with my previous comment. Would playing ODIs be less dangerous?
JONO_M, why are they talking formats? May I suggest you read the article. It's right near the top.
As an Aussie fan I find this really disappointing and it does seem like CA is saying" look, give us our ODIs or were just going to play the security card". Really, if it is truly not safe why are they even talking about formats and schedules? Also, CA's logic of sending a specialist ODI squad to Bangladesh is once again just going to cheapen the value of representing Australia and no matter which players they pick, it will mean weaker shield sides, what are they going to do, send this year's CA xi? Our lads went in to the SA series undercooked this season, let's not have that happen again. We also saw what happened with our specialist T20 team, losing badly to SL at home is really quite a poor result. Why does CA continue to tie itself into these unfathomable knots?
So much for the Myth, Aussie fans are the 'pure' test cricket fans..Sigh!!!!!
SHAKIB S, no, it's your perspective that is the "excuse". The idea that fear of losing drives Australian cricket is nonsense. No other team seeks legitimate, fair victory to the degree that the Australian team does. No disrespect, even despite obvious improvements, Bangladesh is the weakest team in Asia. Look at the rankings. Use your nogin. A more reasonable criticism would be that Aust wants to go to get cheap test ranking points.
BIGGUS, the public simply don't have the data to know what is wise. If you have more data, and know better, share it. What we deem to be best is only based on our limited data set. It's all about percentages. Security risk does not mean probable threat, like say, a 50-50 chance. Even a one in 100 chance is unacceptable. Would you step onto a plane if you were told there was a 1% chance of a wing falling off?
Would like to see Smith Bat against us. If BD can take care of Warner like India, It would become very interesting. Aus bowling is very strong though but I dont think O keefe and Lyon will be as successful as they were against India
@ZAHID_ROAR_OF_TIGERS : Good point there. BCB should decide what they want, and not CA. But security is paramount. No point showing the Aussies a red rag just because they cite security as a reason. Security is definitely a concern in BD, at least to Westerners. And a tour without a Test, is no Tour. It's a friendly visit.
If the security situation is deemed acceptable then we should keep our word and the tour should go ahead as scheduled, no doubt about it. I would be very disappointed with CA if they did otherwise, but I have little faith in the people in charge there and I suspect I'll end up disappointed.
Without Test match I don't want to call it "Tour". If CA is concerned about security then scrap the one day matches and play one off Test just like we played against India. I really want to see how BD fare against Australia in home condition.
First of all Cricket Australia must make sure to daw up a reasonable cricket schedule and not have the Aussie cricket team in action in different parts of the continent at the same time and suffer the consequences as in the recent past. The main focus must be on the ashes next summer at home.
All these safety concerns are just funny excuses every single person can easily get that. Playing test here and higher chances of getting defeated, unacceptable for Australia maybe.
The gap between aus and BD has narrowed very much that Aus is whitewashed frequently and BD has started winning few tests.
@Zahid the most sensible comment ever here .. Hats Off ..
No excuse with playing tests. Play tests or no need come in Bangladesh.
Without playing the best test nations BD can't improve... this is the best time to accept the tour of Pakistan...
I am ok with ACB going with its security agencies advice with regards to going ahead with the tour or not. What I am not ok with is ACB deciding what format of cricket they want to play. If the security is fine then they should stick to what the original tour plan was. Else dont tour at all
SAMROY - This is not an article about how good Bangladesh are, this is to delibrate whether Australia would tour Bangladesh or not. I agree with some of the posters here who mentioned that countries like NZ and Eng did tour Bangladesh so I don't see any security concerns for Aussies.
Cricket Australia obviously do not rate bangladesh. There have only ever been 4 tests between the two counties! The last time Bangladesh came to Oz CA changed the tour to ODIs only with the lame excuse it clashed with the commonwealth games! That is condescending and a joke! Come on! We treated zimbabwe the same way! I am from Australia and want to see the team play against ALL other opposition. Not just who CA deems worthy.
BD fans, stop showing logic like australia is afraid of us or something like that. Dont show you immaturity and lack of cricket sense. teams didnt like to visit BD in the past not because they were/are afraid of being defeated. they didnt want to visit because they thought the battle between BD and them would be meaningless because of one sided results. they were absolutely right because we couldnt prove them wrong. during that time, it was always one sided affairs. now BD have started playing to their potentials and the visiting sides are more interested. they are not afraid, but happy that they have found another rising team and touring BD is no more meaningless. now they also think it is meaningful and feel the challenge. they are showing the due respect. In contrast, we are getting arrogant and start putting meaningless logic like, aussies are afraid, bla bla bla. Stop showing dispute and show the due respects to the champion teams.
Think Aus would really be pushed to the wall in a 3 test series in Bangladesh. If England could be made to cry , am sure Aus will be too. They should take up the challenge and not hide behind security reasons.
Dont understand what is this Australia specific threat emerging from Bangladesh!!! None of the other countries seem to have any issues. Even NZ who are from the same continent as AUS have played many matches in Bangladesh!!I think it is time CA shares its concerns publicly!!
Would prefer tests, but also would prefer our test players to have a full shield preparation for the Ashes, and the latter is far more important. Whatever can accomplish both would be ideal.
Dont know what australians are afraid off ,there is no security problem in BD. Previously when australia cricket team was in very bad shape they cancelled the tour...at that time australia football team came to BD to play world cup qualifier....if their football team can come,why cant their cricket team??? Really disappointing.....
Don't the Aussies think Test Cricket is Best Cricket? Are they not committed to it? Don't the Aussies want Bangladesh to gain more experience in Tests? Or just because ODIs bring in more money the Aussies want to ditch their so called first love?
I will be brutally honest here. Bangladesh may be the world's newest test cricket playing nation and they were given test status in a hurry and they did not deserve test status between 2000 and 2007. However, for the last couple of years they have made rapid strides as an international team are currently producing better high quality young cricketers than many other teams. In the last couple of years they have produced Sabbir Rehman, Soumya Sarkar, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rehman, Mosaddek Hussain and Mehedi Hasan Miraz all between 19 and 25 years of age and all very talented. Future is very bright for BD cricket. They are becoming pretty good and already are better than WI as a test team and very close to SL as a test team and probably will overtake SL & NZ as a test team within next 5 years.
If CA is indeed trying to convert the scheduled Tests into ODIs instead then that is extremely disappointing, and would be more evidence that their often-stated committment to the primacy of Test cricket is just hot air.
"We will continue to monitor advice from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and our own security advisors about the security risk for any future tours of the Australian team in Bangladesh and make a decision based on this advice closer to any potential tour." Lol taste of BCB's own medicine :p Afterall life matters the most
Oh come on CA - really? Play a Test series! I am pretty sure having the current XI playing a Test series and the potentials playing Shield games will still provide a good lead-in to the Ashes. Scheduling is difficult, I'm aware of this, but this is a pretty weak excuse and disrespectful to Bangladesh. At the very least, it'll be a good time for Australia to build on the progress they made in India. And Bangladesh deserve better than a few ODIs nobody will remember.
Just for the record, Australia has not hosted Bangladesh for test matches since 2002 and last played tests in 2006.
BCB should stick to its guns to either make them play tests in Bangladesh or in Australia. They deserve no sympathy for their antics.
BD position isnt as bad as Pakistan. Only for Australia, they should play home matches in say Kathmandu. Just one hours flight from Dhaka and its the perfect place for cricket in summer. Nepal Cricket Association will earn decent sum too. Win win for all !
I can see ICC doing nothing here. All the teams should be strict to their FTP and ICC should monitor this.
Playing both Tests and ODI's is not an option due to scheduling constraints. It will be one or the other, not both.
Start by treating Ashes as just another bilateral series. Best umpires and technology should not be reserved only for Ashes. If this can happen then fine else like Australia chooses to skip BD tour, India is well within their rights to not play Pakistan and let each country decide whom they want to play with, afterall its a free world.
wouldn't weather be a issue if scheduled in august/September???
Teams should be deducted severely of their rankings and fines imposed if and when they decline to abide by FTP conducted by the ICC. Either arrange an alternative venue or pay for it. Otherwise cricket is heading nowhere.
One neglected aspect is the weather. Two years ago, a two test series between Bangladesh and SA ended 0-0 because of this.
Play BD in India as warm up series to India then play tri series ODIs including BD
Its not fair for teams like BD when touring teams start to dictate terms & change the schedule to play only ODI's. This was planned long ago & Australia should honor it & play a full series of both Tests & ODIs.
No one is disagreeing that the Ashes isn't important - but its not fair on the smaller teams when you say "we would like our players to focus on 1st Class cricket at home before the ashes". Then why not play only 1st class cricket & the ashes ... ???
A test tour of Bangladesh would help build on the progress Smiths's side made in India, but safety concerns must remain paramount. If CA wish for the test players to play shield matches before the Ashes then they should simply not select test players for an ODI tour of India, I'm sure we could scrape together a decent ODI side without the test players. Or perhaps simply stop scheduling odi tours that disrupt preparations for test series. You'd think CA would learn after Hussey's criticisms and the Bollinger debacle.
As an Australian supporter, would be lovely to see Australia play Bangladesh in any format. Especially in test cricket as we haven't played them since Adam Gilchrist was our wicketkeeper! Much improved side who needs more test opportunities. In spinning conditions they might be evenly matched but I feel if any wicket had something for the seamers the Bangladesh top order might collapse. Be it tests or ODI's, just want to see how Australia in flux goes against Bangladesh in ascendancy.
@SAMIRDUTTA Yes they may be afraid, but not of losing. With ODIs the team can fly in and out of a city on the same day
I personally would very much like to see us play some test cricket against Bangladesh. They have gradually became a genuinely promising test team, especially on turning pitches. It would likely make for a close and exciting contest.
FTP, CA negotiating with BCB, potential 2 Tier Test regime etc etc . A talk fest ! What a mess. ICC is a dripping roast being diced and sliced by individual power brokers as global cricket slides into oblivion . Very sad.
Australians are afraid of loosing a test match against Bangladesh and this is why they are asking for ODI. Recently England lost a test against Bangladesh and Australia also lost to India by 2-1. In no way Bangladesh should agree to arrange ODI instead of Test.
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Australians are afraid of loosing a test match against Bangladesh and this is why they are asking for ODI. Recently England lost a test against Bangladesh and Australia also lost to India by 2-1. In no way Bangladesh should agree to arrange ODI instead of Test.
FTP, CA negotiating with BCB, potential 2 Tier Test regime etc etc . A talk fest ! What a mess. ICC is a dripping roast being diced and sliced by individual power brokers as global cricket slides into oblivion . Very sad.
I personally would very much like to see us play some test cricket against Bangladesh. They have gradually became a genuinely promising test team, especially on turning pitches. It would likely make for a close and exciting contest.
@SAMIRDUTTA Yes they may be afraid, but not of losing. With ODIs the team can fly in and out of a city on the same day
As an Australian supporter, would be lovely to see Australia play Bangladesh in any format. Especially in test cricket as we haven't played them since Adam Gilchrist was our wicketkeeper! Much improved side who needs more test opportunities. In spinning conditions they might be evenly matched but I feel if any wicket had something for the seamers the Bangladesh top order might collapse. Be it tests or ODI's, just want to see how Australia in flux goes against Bangladesh in ascendancy.
A test tour of Bangladesh would help build on the progress Smiths's side made in India, but safety concerns must remain paramount. If CA wish for the test players to play shield matches before the Ashes then they should simply not select test players for an ODI tour of India, I'm sure we could scrape together a decent ODI side without the test players. Or perhaps simply stop scheduling odi tours that disrupt preparations for test series. You'd think CA would learn after Hussey's criticisms and the Bollinger debacle.
Its not fair for teams like BD when touring teams start to dictate terms & change the schedule to play only ODI's. This was planned long ago & Australia should honor it & play a full series of both Tests & ODIs.
No one is disagreeing that the Ashes isn't important - but its not fair on the smaller teams when you say "we would like our players to focus on 1st Class cricket at home before the ashes". Then why not play only 1st class cricket & the ashes ... ???
Play BD in India as warm up series to India then play tri series ODIs including BD
One neglected aspect is the weather. Two years ago, a two test series between Bangladesh and SA ended 0-0 because of this.
Teams should be deducted severely of their rankings and fines imposed if and when they decline to abide by FTP conducted by the ICC. Either arrange an alternative venue or pay for it. Otherwise cricket is heading nowhere.