"They have told us this series is not financially viable due to the off-season," chief executive Nizam Uddin Chowdhury told Reuters. If we can conduct them, we would expect the other cricket boards, especially bigger ones like Cricket Australia, to do the same. In the ICC's Future Tours Programme, Bangladesh's tour was pencilled in for the Australian winter, when football codes occupy the main cricket stadiums and dominate sports broadcasting. Bangladesh's last Test tour of Australia was in 2003 when they suffered innings losses in the tropical northern cities of Darwin and Cairns and it is likely such venues would have been considered if the 2018 tour had gone ahead. Australia drew 1-1 with Bangladesh in a two-Test series last year, their first tour of the country since 2011 after Cricket Australia cancelled a trip in 2015 citing security concerns.

Source: bd News24 May 11, 2018 02:03 UTC