No overseas tours for Bangladesh

What is driving the lack of overseas tours for Bangladesh? They don't want to tour? Other teams don't want to host them? ICC trying to shield them?

We all know they can do okay in ODIs at home, and they have a reasonable defence in tests at home: indeed, in their last four test series at home (8 matches in all) they've only lost one match.

Going by the Future Tours plan (which is admittedly subject to variation), they are next scheduled to play a proper O/S tour in December 2016. This will be more than two years since their most recent such, the tour of the Windies that concluded in September 2014. (They do have a one-off test, and nowt else, versus India in September 2016).

If the idea is to shield them, I think it is a poor idea, the time for that is over: they aren't up with the major-8 in Tests yet but they are also not the easybeats they once were. In ODIs they can compete.

Yet they seem to be playing fewer O/S series than they ever did.

Not counting the Asian Test Championship, here's their overseas test series breakdown in five year chunks:

2001-2005: 10 series, 21 tests. 2 Zimbabwe, 2 SL, 1 England, 1 South Africa, 1 Pakistan, 1 Windies, 1 NZ, 1 Australia.
2006-2010: 6 series, 12 tests. 2 NZ, 1 Windies, 1 SL, 1 England, 1 South Africa.
2011-2015: 4 series, 7 tests. 2 Zimbabwe, 1 Windies, 1 SL.

So in that last 5 year bracket, they'll have played 4 overseas test matches against the top-8.

It's pretty dire in the ODI area as well. They used to at least get opportunities to play ODI-only series, but not from 2011-2015. Leaving side the WC, in that five year bracket there's just those four tours: Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, West Indies. 14 matches.

I'm not sure what's behind this but something's wrong somewhere.

no money to be made in hosting them, I would imagine.

OP Tipping wrote:What is driving the lack of overseas tours for Bangladesh? They don't want to tour? Other teams don't want to host them? ICC trying to shield them?

that.

On the evidence of the World Cup, Bangladesh maybe on the verge of putting a competitive side together - they appear to have a couple of quickies to go with their spinners. Now more than ever they need some good, hard overseas tours to kick on, but there's no sign of it happening. Money talks.

buckSH wrote:

OP Tipping wrote:What is driving the lack of overseas tours for Bangladesh? They don't want to tour? Other teams don't want to host them? ICC trying to shield them?

that.

Bucky has a point. How many sponsors would put the hands up for a Banger v Aust series in Australia. They would have to pay people to turn up to watch.

Isn't most of the money in TV rights?

taipan wrote:Isn't most of the money in TV rights?

Yeah, but who would watch?

I would; indeed I paid to watch them play 'live' in Cairns back in 2002 or 2003.

Generally though, Tests against them won't cover costs for the hosting nation in terms of ticket sales and TV rights.

That's where the old tours programme helped, they would at least get a couple of early season Tests over here, but we haven't seen that for some years now.