Australia's Test, T20 Tours of Bangladesh Postponed

Dhaka, Sep 24 (PTI) Australia's Test tour of Bangladesh, which is part of the World Test Championship, has been postponed by four months to June-July next year, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced.

The two-match Test series was earlier scheduled to held in February next year.

"According to the FTP (Future Tours Programme), we were supposed to host two Tests in February, but now the Test series will be played in June-July 2020," Chairman of BCB's Cricket Operations Akram Khan was quoted as saying by the ICC.

Khan added that Bangladesh will also host Australia for a three-match T20 series scheduled to take place in October this year.

The dates for both the Test and T20 series are yet to be finalised.

"Initially, we were expecting to host Australia for a two-match Twenty20 International series in October, but now they have agreed to play three T20 internationals and it will be played ahead of the World T20 in India, though we are yet to finalise the date," Khan said. PTI APA SSC SSC 09241654 NNNNe in January and February. But it is unfortunate that there has been no practical work at the ground level," Congress legislator from Jalandhar Cantt, Singh told the House, embarrassing his party's government.

"This is the reality. We are running this department only on papers. Today, this department does not have a single tender for knickers,” said Singh, adding to the government's embarrassment.

Sports Minister Sodhi earlier told the House that the Sports Department had been promoting sports activities in a big way.

He said he hoped many sportspersons from Punjab would win several medals in the 2020 Olympic games.

For creating nursery of young sportspersons and to groom their talent, the Sports Department has established various residential wings and day scholar wings in different schools and colleges, the minister added.

Sodhi told the House that there is a government college under the Department of Higher Education at Jalandhar where hostels have been made for residential wing players to stay there.

At present, 54 players under the residential wing scheme are admitted in the Jalandhar sports college, he said.

“In the current session, it has been decided that players with proven talents at the national and state levels should be admitted to these wings. Consequently, the first priority is to be given to participants who represented the state of Punjab in Khelo India national games and medal winners of the Punjab state games and district level games,” he said.

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