Bangladesh's tour of India postponed

Habibul Bashar and his men will have to wait a while before they can make their first tour to India © Getty Images

For the second time in a year, an India-Bangladesh series has been postponed. Bangladesh were due to tour India in April 2005, but the tour was delayed until later in the year because India will be hosting Pakistan at that time. Earlier this year, India were to tour Bangladesh but postponed their trip until December so they could visit Pakistan instead.

"I have had talks with the officials of the BCCI yesterday," Ali Asghar, the president of the Bangladesh Board, told The Daily Star, "and it has been decided that we will not tour India in April. It is mainly because both the sides [were] pressed for time. But the BCCI has assured me that they will host us later next year."

Bangladesh are scheduled to tour England in May. The trips to England and India will be their first since they achieved Test status.