BCB chief hopes ICC meeting will produce permanent solution to security issue

Bangladesh Cricket Board President Nazmul Hassan is looking forward to the ICC meeting for a permanent solution to series delays over security concerns.

The meeting will commence in the governing council's headquarters in Dubai on Friday.

The board chief believes Bangladesh have a strong position in ICC.

"I know if I tell something in the ICC [meeting], they will listen with attention.

"I will try to explain to the ICC and the others that games cannot stop in places over threats where there is no past record," Hassan told reporters on Monday.

Cricket Australia postponed their team's Bangladesh tour over security concerns last Thursday after six days of uncertainty about their arrival.

Then BCB and Cricket South Africa suspended the women cricket team's Bangladesh tour on 'mutual consent' on Monday to make new security arrangements.

Hassan thinks the ICC will need to play a key role in clearing up the issue, "Or else the games will stop here and there [over threats]. All countries have such threats but the games won't stop for that.

"ICC must play a role on this [issue] and devise a solution."

He insists international cricket and board authorities need work together for a lasting solution to the problem.

The BCB, however, is disinclined to organise just any series to bring international cricket to home.

Asked if the board is keen to invite Zimbabwe in November, Hassan said, "I think it is possible to bring them over but I don't want to invite a team just to make a point to ICC or the public. I want a permanent solution to the problem."