The fate of Bangladesh‘s home series against Australia has been dogged as Australia is going to cancel its tour due to security concerns.
Cricket Australia (CA) has not yet announced its decision, but it has directed Australia‘s Test squad to re-join their state squads for training as deliberations on the proposed tour of Bangladesh continue.
The 15 players lead by Steve Smith was set to fly out on Monday morning for Bangladesh, but they delayed the tour due to security concern.
The Bangladesh government tried everything in its power to convince the security team during their two-day stay in Dhaka after the CA stalled the Aussies‘ departure following DAFT‘s (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) security update on last Friday which read: “There is reliable information to suggest that militants may be planning to target Australian interests in Bangladesh”.
The Bangladesh government even offered the Australian cricket team the kind of security usually reserved for VVIP‘s.
But the fate of the series apparently lost considerable ground when CA‘s head of security Sean Carroll, Australian team manager Gavin Dovey and team security manager Frank Dimasi left Dhaka late Monday night.
