BCB upset with Oz tour call off
Simpson leading it,” he recalled.
“You couldn’t help but become a better person and a better cricketer - because mate, that was a serious changeroom.”
Langer, Bancroft’s former coach at Western Australia, reiterated his opinion that all three players caught up in the scandal deserved a chance to work their way back into the team after having served their bans.
“If we can keep mentoring them and helping them, and they want to keep getting better and meet the standards of the Australian cricket team, then, of course, they’ll be welcome back,” he said.
Langer took over from Darren Lehmann who resigned after the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board said it was “really disappointed” that a Test tour of Australia had been scrubbed for financial reasons.
Bangladesh had been scheduled to play two Tests and three one day internationals Down Under later this year but there was no mention of it when Australia’s schedule for the 2018-19 home season was published at the end of last month.
“They have told us this series is not financially viable due to the off-season,” chief executive Nizam Uddin Chowdhury said.
“This is really disappointing. All the series we hosted were not always profitable. If we can conduct them, we would expect the other cricket boards, especially bigger ones like Cricket Australia, to do the same.
“We have proposed a shorter version as an alternative. But it looks like they are not continuing. So, this series is not going to happen.”
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.
The difference is Border would never have asked me and Bobby Simpson would’ve killed me.