Australia tour of Bangladesh postponed ....

[Sai Jai]

Australia's two-Test tour of
Bangladesh, scheduled to begin on
October 9th, has been postponed due
to security reasons. Cricket Australia
CEO James Sutherland on Thursday,
confirmed the latest development,
that the tour will not go ahead as
planned. Sutherland expressed his
disappointment at the eventual
decision of postponing the tour but
conceded that there were no other
alternatives.
"After six days of extensive
deliberations and research, we've
come to the conclusion that we have
no other alternative than to postpone
our tour to Bangladesh. It's a very
disappointing outcome from our
perspective," Sutherland was quoted
as saying by cricket.com.au.
Australia's full squad was to fly out to
Bangladesh last Monday before a
security warning from the Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade, delayed
their departure.

 

[Sai Jai]

RE: Australia tour of Bangladesh postponed

While Bangladesh
Cricket Board officials assured
Australia that their security will be top
priority and that the country was safe
for the tour, Sutherland said they had
a 'rigorous process' to understand the
threat they were warned about by
DFAT and had several meetings with
the cricket board and government of
Bangladesh before arriving at the
decision.
"Six days ago we were informed by
ASIO and our Department of Foreign
Affairs that there was a credible risk to
Australians in Bangladesh and we've
worked through a rigorous process to
try and understand that. We've had
three people on the ground meeting
with Bangladesh Cricket, Bangladesh
government sources and members of
our foreign affairs department in
Bangladesh. In the end, all things
considered, we've made this decision to
postpone the tour for now and we'll
enter into discussions with the
Bangladesh Cricket Board about when
we can play this cricket series next,"
Sutherland said.
Even though Pakistan, India and South
Africa toured Bangladesh recently
without any security issues, DFAT's
warnings were followed by an Italian
aid worker being killed in Dhaka by
terrorist group Islamic State.
Sutherland did not comment on the
events but stated that the threat was
credible.

 

[Sai Jai]

RE: Australia tour of Bangladesh postponed

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[Ankit_bpl]

Good call

 

[iSK]

Thanks for the update bro :tup