A week after Australia called off their tour to Bangladesh citing \u2018security fears\u2019, former Australia captain Ian Chappell has said the ICC needs to step in and coordinate security efforts.
\nHe also said he believed the decision might have been a \u2018little different\u2019 had a similar situation arisen ahead of a tour to India.\u00a0\u2018The ICC and the cricket boards need to set up a committee, which has a security background,\u2019 he said on his bi-weekly show Chappelli Calls It on ESPNcricinfo.
\n\u2018It\u2019s got to get information from all the countries and relevant parties but by doing that you are taking it out of the hands of the individual boards, who look at different situations differently.\u2019
\nChappell said while it was easy to \u2018say no\u2019 to a tour to Bangladesh, the prospect of \u2018far greater ramifications\u2019 of a pull-out from
\nIndia would make it \u2018not so easy\u2019 to make a similar decision.
\n\u2018The obvious one is about India, they will be very reluctant not to tour India. If it was the IPL, for instance, and the decision was on the heads of the individual players, it would be interesting to see what decision was taken then.
\n\u2018I guess it\u2019s very hard to ignore government advice on matters of security,\u2019 Chappell said.
\n\u2018The question I would ask is if the same situation was occurring on a tour to India, what would happen then? That makes me wonder if the decision might have been a little different. As long as you have the individual countries making that decision, whether we will or we won\u2019t, you\u2019re always going to have a situation where you are going to say for a tour to Bangladesh, it\u2019s pretty easy to say no. For a tour to India, not so easy to say no, because the ramifications are far greater.\u2019
\nAs the fate of the tour hung in the balance after Cricket Australia received specific information from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade about a possible security risk to Australian interests in the country, the Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan assured that Australia would receive \u2018unprecedented levels of security\u2019 if they made the trip.
\n\u2018Whoever is saying that is quite right, we have had some terrorist incidents in Australia in recent times, that is the way of the world at the moment,\u2019 he said. \u2018At the 1996 World Cup, Australia were reluctant to go to Sri Lanka.
\nThey were guaranteed head-of-state type security, it even got to the point where they talked about flying them in the morning and flying them out in the evening, and still Australia refused to partake in that game.\u2019<\/p>\n

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