Aussies 'all systems go' for Bangladesh

The schedule for Australia's next Test assignment appears all but confirmed after Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland insisted the tour of Bangladesh is "all systems go", pending final security and fixture details.

Sutherland restated he's confident the tour that would feature two Tests in Dhaka and Chittagong would go ahead in late August.

"We're just working through all the details," Sutherland said on Monday.

"I'm very pleased to be at a stage of really fine-tuning the detail – there are still some things that we need to work through just to lock down on security.

"Once our hosts have locked in dates and the schedule, then from us it's all systems go, subject to any security concerns we might have.

"From all the research we've done and the work we've done with (the Department of) Foreign Affairs and others through government agencies, we're confident the tour will take place."

Despite some reports of one-day matches, two Tests are expected. The Eid holiday, an important Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan, is set for September with the Tests expected to straddle the celebrations.

Australia were originally scheduled to travel to the Asian nation in October 2015 but postponed it at the last minute due to warnings of possible militant attacks from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Australia also withdrew their Under-19 side from last year's World Cup in Dhaka.

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England's month-long tour in October last year passed without incident, with CA's anti-corruption and security manager Sean Carroll on hand to monitor rigorous security arrangements.

Australia haven't played a Test in Bangladesh since 2006, when Jason Gillespie memorably hit a double century after being sent in as nightwatchman. Australia did also travel to Dhaka for a three-match one-day international series in 2011.

Should the Bangladesh tour go ahead, the matches would be Australia's only Tests between now and next summer's Ashes series against England. The details of a proposed limited-overs tour of India in October are still to be confirmed.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan last month declared Australia's tour was set in stone following a meeting with CA Chairman David Peever in Dubai at an International Cricket Council board meeting.

"(The) Australia series has been finalised," Hasan told Bangladesh media. 

"I am saying it because the president of their board told me on the last day of the meeting that he and his wife are coming to watch the first Test. 

"That was the first time he said anything about the series during the meeting."