Australian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2015–16

Australian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2015–16
		Bangladesh		Australia
Dates		28 September 2015 – 21 October 2015
Captains		Mushfiqur Rahim		Steve Smith
Test series

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]
Mushfiqur Rahim (c) Tamim Iqbal (vc) Imrul Kayes Jubair Hossain Liton Das Mahmudullah Mohammad Shahid Mominul Haque Mustafizur Rahman Nasir Hossain Rubel Hossain Shakib Al Hasan Soumya Sarkar Taijul Islam	Steve Smith (c) Adam Voges (vc) Cameron Bancroft Joe Burns Pat Cummins Andrew Fekete Usman Khawaja Nathan Lyon Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh Glenn Maxwell Peter Nevill Stephen O'Keefe Peter Siddle Mitchell Starc James Faulkner

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

Bangladesh Cricket Board XI	v	Australians

Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah

1st Test

9 – 13 October 2015

Bangladesh	v	Australia

Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong

2nd Test

17 – 21 October 2015

Bangladesh	v	Australia

Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka

References

1. "BCB announces dates for Australia Tests". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
2. "Australia delay departure for Bangladesh amid security concerns". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Bangladesh surprised at Australian delay". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. "CA security manager to visit Bangladesh". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
5. "Bangladesh name unchanged squad for first Australia Test". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
6. "BCB optimistic tour will go as planned". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
7. "Australian players sent back to state squads". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
8. "BCB makes last-ditch appeal to Cricket Australia". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
9. "Australia postpone tour of Bangladesh". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
10. "Australia postpone Bangladesh tour over 'security concerns'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
11. Isam, Mohammad. "Australia keen to tour Bangladesh in 2017". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
12. "Fekete, Bancroft in Test Squad" Cricket Australia 14 September 2015
13. "Pat Cummins ruled out of Bangladesh tour". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 24 September 2015.

External links

• Series home at ESPN