Australian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2015–16
| Australian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2015–16 | |||||
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| Dates | 28 September 2015 – 21 October 2015 | ||||
| Captains | Mushfiqur Rahim | Steve Smith | |||
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The Australia cricket team were scheduled to tour Bangladesh from 28 September to 21 October 2015 to play a tour match and two Test matches.[1]
A day before the tour was scheduled to start, the Australian team did not leave their country as Cricket Australia (CA) received information about security concerns.[2] The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said that they were surprised by the delay.[3] Sean Carroll, security manager for CA, meet with the Australian High Commissioner in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh government to discuss the concerns.[4] Despite the ongoing concerns regarding the tour, Bangladesh announced their squad on 28 September.[5] The BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that "we are expecting all the matches to be played on schedule".[6] On 30 September the Australian cricketers were sent back to their state squads in readiness for the Matador Cup.[7] The BCB said that "the Bangladesh government has committed to additional security on top of the substantial and elaborate arrangements in the BCB's standard Security Plan for international cricket".[8]
On 1 October, Cricket Australia confirmed that the tour had been postponed with a view to re-arrange the matches for a later date.[9][10] In April 2016, it indicated that it was hoping the tour would go ahead in 2017.[11]
Squads
| Bangladesh[5] |
Australia[12] |
|---|---|
Australia's Pat Cummins was ruled out of the tour because of a back injury and was replaced by James Faulkner.[13]
Scheduled matches
First class:Bangladesh Cricket Board XI vs. Australians
| 3 – 5 October 2015 |
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1st Test
| 9 – 13 October 2015 |
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2nd Test
| 17 – 21 October 2015 |
| v |
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References
- ↑ "BCB announces dates for Australia Tests". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
- ↑ "Australia delay departure for Bangladesh amid security concerns". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ↑ "Bangladesh surprised at Australian delay". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ↑ "CA security manager to visit Bangladesh". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- 1 2 "Bangladesh name unchanged squad for first Australia Test". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ↑ "BCB optimistic tour will go as planned". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ↑ "Australian players sent back to state squads". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- ↑ "BCB makes last-ditch appeal to Cricket Australia". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- ↑ "Australia postpone tour of Bangladesh". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ↑ "Australia postpone Bangladesh tour over 'security concerns'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ↑ Isam, Mohammad. "Australia keen to tour Bangladesh in 2017". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ↑ "Fekete, Bancroft in Test Squad" Cricket Australia 14 September 2015
- ↑ "Pat Cummins ruled out of Bangladesh tour". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 24 September 2015.