6 Mar 2009

Bangladesh postpone Pakistan tour

6:02 am on 6 March 2009

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has postponed this month's home series with Pakistan due to security concerns.

Pakistan were due to arrive in Bangladesh on Saturday to play two Twenty20 matches and five one-day internationals against the hosts.

The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt says the tour had been postponed by two weeks and the new dates will be announced at a later date.

The International Cricket Council has asked the Bangladesh board to beef up security in light of what happened with the Sri Lankan team.

So the Bangladesh board requested a postponement of the tour by two weeks.

The decision comes after the Sri Lanka cricket team was attacked by gunmen in the Pakistani city of Lahore as their bus approached the Gadaffi Stadium, wounding six players and an assistant coach.

Seven Pakistanis, six policemen and a bus driver, were killed in the ambush.

Bangladesh has security concerns of its own following last week's mutiny at the headquarters of a paramilitary unit in Dhaka which killed at least 80 people, mostly army officers.