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Daniel Vettori underwent a surgery on his troublesome Achilles tendon in London, in a bid to prolong his career. Vettori has been suffering from a chronic Achilles tendon problem and was dogged by the injury during the Champions Trophy.”I did indeed have surgery on Wednesday,” Vettori told . “I’m hoping it once and for all clears up my persistent and chronic Achilles problem and lets me train and get fit again.”Vettori, who has been rested from the Twenty20 squad for the two matches against England, admitted he had no set plans related to his recovery and comeback. “In regards to my future, I will see how my rehabilitation goes before I speculate on my career. I have no set plans,” he said.New Zealand’s Group A match against Sri Lanka was Vettori’s first ODI match in two years in which he bowled six overs, picking up one wicket and conceding 16 runs. However, he experienced discomfort while fielding and needed saline injections to help with the pain. Vettori also played the final group match against England but left the field after bowling five overs.The former New Zealand captain played his last Test in July 2012 against West Indies and last featured in a T20 in the World T20 last year. Vettori didn’t participate in the IPL and was expected to play the second Test against England at Headingley, before he was ruled out by the team management. His chronic injury prompted captain Brendon McCullum to admit that the team management would have to manage his workload with care.”It’s going to be a rolling conversation that we need to have with Dan as to what he needs to prioritise with where he’s at in his career,” McCullum said on the eve of the Headingley Test. “”It would be nice to think that he’d be able to play every game in all three forms but it’s not realistic. I certainly see a place for him in the team. It would be silly for us to sweep away 112 Test matches, nearly 400 wickets and six Test centuries.”

N Srinivasan will not carry out his duties as BCCI president until the commission appointed to conduct an inquiry into the betting and spot-fixing charges in IPL 2013 completes its task. During this period Jagmohan Dalmiya, a former BCCI president and current head of the Cricket Association of Bengal, will run the daily affairs of the board.It was the first time that a BCCI president has stood down in whatever capacity and a replacement named in his stead.”Mr. N Srinivasan announced that he will not discharge his duties as the president of the board till such time that the probe is completed. Till such time, Mr. Jagmohan Dalmiya will conduct the day to day affairs of the board,” the BCCI said in a release after a meeting of its working committee in Chennai on Sunday. “The committee expressed full confidence in Mr. Sanjay Jagdale and Mr. Ajay Shirke and requested them to withdraw their resignations in the larger interest of the board.”However, Jagdale and Shirke, the board secretary and treasurer who resigned on Friday, said they would not return to the BCCI, leaving two vital administrative posts vacant. Srinivasan told NDTV that the administration of the board in such a situation could be worked out.Later on Sunday evening BCCI vice-president Arun Jaitley, who along with Rajiv Shukla and Anurag Thakur attended the meeting via teleconference from Delhi, said that the working committee would effectively run the board, by having to ratify Dalmiya’s decisions. “Mr Dalmiya will look after the responsibilities. He will get decisions ratified by the board,” he told . “The entire administration will be done by the working committee of the board. Whatever Mr Dalmiya decides will have to be ratified by the board.”The BCCI’s press release did not mention who would constitute the new panel to investigate Gurunath Meiyappan, the Chennai Super Kings official arrested on charges of betting, the Super Kings owners India Cements, and the owners of Rajasthan Royals. The three-member panel formed on May 28 by the IPL governing council to look into corruption charges around IPL 2013 was automatically nullified after Jagdale’s resignation. IS Bindra, the Punjab Cricket Association president, told ESPNcricinfo that the two High Court judges appointed to the panel will remain, and Jagdale’s replacement will be appointed by Dalmiya. Bindra said he was told by Jaitley that the judges could not be replaced because, “it will be disrespect to the judges.”Bindra also told that he was the only person at the working committee meeting who asked for Srinivasan’s resignation. “Mr. Jaitley has had his way in this meeting. Most of the suggestions came from Mr Jaitley, including the appointment of Mr. Dalmiya,” Bindra said. “Srinivasan is not resigning. He is just stepping aside for one month. This is taking the public for a ride. We needed something more than this. I suggested, let him step aside until September, but he said he is not going to resign.”Srinivasan, however, contradicted Bindra, and said that Bindra had not asked him to resign at the meeting. “The meeting was very smooth. There was no acrimony,” Srinivasan told NDTV. “The members appreciated what were the tasks ahead of the BCCI. This announcement I made after all members had expressed their views. This was well received. Then Mr Dalmiya was appointed.”A BCCI member, who was present in the meeting, said no one asked for Srinivasan’s resignation during the meeting. “Once the president clarified in his opening address the he will not quit, nobody sought his resignation,” he said. “Though Shirke and Bindra were vocal in questioning the technicalities, even they didn’t demand his resignation.” Three other members confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that ‘resignation’ was not mentioned during the meeting at all.The BCCI did not specify what post Dalmiya would occupy, though, and as yet his role was undefined. The legitimacy of his position, according to the BCCI constitution, was not established.

Match facts

Sunday, May 19, 2013
Start time 2000 (1630 GMT)Can Shikhar Dhawan and the other Sunrisers’ batsmen put up enough runs?•BCCI

Big Picture

At the start of the IPL season, few would have tipped Sunrisers Hyderabad to be one of the four teams that qualify for the playoffs. Now, however, their prospects in their first season have boiled down to one simple task in the very last league game, against Kolkata Knight Riders: a win. Royal Challengers Bangalore, who beat Chennai Super Kings on Saturday, have drawn level with Sunrisers on 18 points, making this a must win-match for Sunrisers.Sunrisers stand out when compared to the other teams that have already entered the playoffs or are competing to get there. Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings and even Royal Challengers Bangalore have strong batting units while Rajasthan Royals are a team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Sunrisers, however, find themselves on the brink of qualification simply on the strength of their bowling. That strength was on display again when they defended 136 against Rajasthan Royals; Dale Steyn, Amit Mishra and Thisara Perera kept a vice-like grip on the run-rate. More importantly, for most of the season when the bowlers have not been defending small totals, they’ve restricted the opposition to scores that their batting has managed to chase down.For Knight Riders, this game is about redeeming as much of their poor season as they can, while doing Royal Challengers a favour. And, as Royal Challengers captain Virat Kohli cheekily put it at the post-match presentation, he’d be happy to give Gautam Gambhir a call to request him to win the match.

Form guide

Sunrisers Hyderabad WLWLW (most recent first)
Kolkata Knight RidersLWWLW

In the spotlight

The Sunrisers’ top order hasn’t always given the team good starts. Among teams playing in this IPL, the Sunrisers top order (No. 1-3) has scored the minimum runs – 833 from 15 matches, so far. It’s a statistic that will worry them, given the level of competition in the playoffs.

Stats and trivia

• Dale Steyn has bowled 793 dot balls in IPL so far, second only after Praveen Kumar and Irfan Pathan.
• Ishant Sharma is fourth on the list of bowlers to have conceded the most runs in this season, with 435 runs from 15 matches. Thisara Perera is close behind at 431 runs from 14 matches
• Sunil Narine needs four wickets to reach 50 IPL wickets. He also leads the list of bowlers to have taken four wickets or more in an innings the most number of times, having done so four times in the IPL.

Quotes

“They are a proud team. They’ve got a point to prove and they want to finish the season on a high. We have to prepare well. We have to execute in the three disciplines to make sure we finish with a win.”

At 18, Pat Cummins made his Test debut in Johannesburg and was Man of the Match. There could hardly have been a more exciting prospect in Australian sport at the time. Eighteen months later and Cummins, who turned 20 last week, has not only failed to add another Test to that eye-catching performance at the Wanderers, he hasn’t even played a first-class match since then. The teenager who looked like the future of Australian fast bowling has become its forgotten man.But slowly Cummins is making his way back. He will travel with the Australia A party to England later this month, although he will not be part of the official squad, and is hoping to make a full return during the Australia A tour of South Africa in July. If he makes it through those trips without any setbacks, he could press for selection for the ODIs in England that follow the Ashes. But it won’t be exactly the same Cummins who startled South Africa as a tearaway Test debutant.After a foot injury ruled him out of most of the 2011-12 summer and a back stress fracture left him a spectator in 2012-13, Cummins knew that his bowling action would need to be assessed. He is now at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane where he has been put through three sessions a week of bowling with a streamlined action that he, the bowling coach Troy Cooley, and Cricket Australia’s medical staff hope can keep him fit and firing.”It’s been trying to straighten everything out in my action,” Cummins told ESPNcricinfo. “Through a running coach I’ve been trying to fix my mechanics and be a more efficient runner in my approach to the crease, and then when I get to the crease trying to straighten out all the alignments. Hopefully it gets me a bit more swing and consistency.”It’s going against everything I’ve done for the last 20 years and trying to do something totally different. It’s certainly been a little bit foreign, but at the same time I want to nail it down because I know it’s going to turn me into a better bowler. It’s exciting but at the same time it’s challenging. You get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing improvements after every session.”It should mean I can bowl the same pace, if not quicker, but hopefully I’ll just be more efficient, which means I’ll be able to bowl more consistently and for longer in a game. Hopefully I can turn my swing into more consistent swing instead of having some days where it’s not swinging for me. It’s about having a less injury-prone action but also about enhancing the performances.”Not surprisingly, Cummins is itching to bowl with the red ball in a match situation again. That opportunity could come in England; although he won’t be part of the Australia A squad he might be used in their warm-up matches and he hopes there could be a chance to test himself in some league cricket during the trip. Of course, given his injury history, everything that Cummins or Cricket Australia says about his plans is prefaced with a “depending on…” or a “hopefully”.It had been hoped that he could return to the first-class scene at the start of the 2012-13 summer for New South Wales and that he would be in contention for the Tests against South Africa. He was building his workload back up during September and October as part of Australia’s squad for the limited-overs games against Pakistan in the UAE, the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka and for the Sydney Sixers in the Champions League, but a stress fracture in his back ended his season.”I really enjoy playing one-day and T20 cricket and I’d never want to give that away, but playing it for a couple of months made me realise how much I missed bowling with a red ball and building up a bowling innings,” Cummins said. “At the end of it I really just wanted to try to get back to that.”I think I played almost 20 Twenty20 games in a couple of months. I love playing it but I was really looking forward to playing Shield cricket after that. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. The long-term goal is definitely to get back into the red-ball game with Shield matches for New South Wales and down the track Tests is the goal.”First, he’ll have to keep himself fit enough to add to his 16 wickets from four first-class appearances. And having already experienced the thrill of Test cricket once in his short career, Cummins knows that sitting out of last season, even if his back soreness felt manageable, was the right decision in the long run.”It’s not acute pain but it’s just something that’s there,” he said. “The nature of a stress-fracture injury is that there’s a little crack and if you keep bowling it’s going to turn into a big crack. It’s one of those injuries that could turn into a massive injury if it’s not managed.”

ScorecardEvan Gulbis picked up three wickets for Tasmania, including the important wicket of Peter Forrest•Getty Images

A two-hour rain delay was the defining moment of day three. Not a match-winning spell, or a spectacular catch, nor a rear-guard innings. A ten-minute downpour early in the first session led to a two-hour delay and Queensland’s pursuit of Tasmania’s mountainous first innings total got stuck in the mud as a result.The final was already in Tasmania’s grasp before the local weather did the home team a favour. The Bulls had battled to 2 for 60 when the rain hit. Luke Pomersbach was bowled by Luke Butterworth from around the wicket in the tenth over of the morning. The ball shot under Pomersbach’s vertical bat as the variable Bellerive bounce began to leave an indelible mark on the match.Upon resumption, the Bulls found scoring difficult to come by. The Tigers pace men targeted the stumps all day and used reverse swing to tremendous effect.Peter Forrest was obdurate, if not defiant, accumulating a patient half-century. But he could not find consistent support.Both Nathan Reardon and Joe Burns nicked balls that angled in from around the wicket and tailed away.Chris Hartley survived numerous close lbw shouts and a dropped catch by Paine. But the Tigers keeper spent a large part of his day up to the stumps to the pace bowlers and the deflection was too great for him to grasp.Evan Gulbis picked up his second wicket in the late afternoon sun when he trapped Forrest on the crease for 56. The former Victorian all-rounder, in just his seventh first-class match, was the pick of the bowlers as he attacked the stumps consistently and swerved the ball both ways at good pace.The Bulls then aided Tasmania’s cause with a needless run out. Hartley was caught ball-watching as James Hopes called for a quick single. He was found only inches short after a high throw from Faulkner at mid-off, but those inches were lost in the delayed response to Hopes’ call.Gulbis picked up a well-deserved third when Michael Neser scratched a good length ball through to Paine in fading light.The umpires deemed the light insufficient for play not long after. It spared Hopes and Nathan Hauritz a torrid period of batting, but in reality it only delays their difficulties until tomorrow. The Tigers need only a draw to claim their third Sheffield Shield title but Queensland need something extraordinary to turn this match around.

It is not often a Virat Kohli century can be outshone or overshadowed. At its best, it is usually an exquisite construction of beauty, timing, balance and precision. But given that his captain had taken ownership of an entire day with an innings of utter dominance, Kohli fittingly opened his media interaction with a statement before taking questions. “First I’ll speak on the captain’s innings,” he said.He called M S Dhoni’s 206 not out, “a great display of batting” in “temperament, hitting the ball cleanly and assessing the situation.” When asked whether No. 6 was an ideal batting position for Dhoni going into the future, he said it “might be the trick that will work with the batting order for us.”Kohli did say he had not seen him batting at No. 6 often. He said Dhoni at No. 7 spot doesn’t have enough time to get big runs. “People started doubting his Test batting, because he wasn’t getting ample opportunities. If the team is five down, you have to negotiate the pressure, then you expect the guy to get a hundred every four games. It’s pretty difficult.”The No. 6 position would give Dhoni, Kohli said, “ample opportunity to get settled and analyse the situation. Once he’s settled, he is one of the most experienced guys to play with the lower order, he knows how to play with the tail. So yes, that’s a huge difference he could make at No. 6 going ahead in Test matches.”Kohli said it was easier to maintain the tempo of an innings like today in ODIs where he had seen Dhoni score 183 against Sri Lanka batting at No. 3. “It’s very easy to go for your shots in one-dayers. You don’t have to think too much when you’re in that kind of flow. But [in Tests] to actually analyse the situation, to play with the tailender, to take strike when wanted, to defend when wanted, hit the ball when needed… in Test matches it’s not easy to bat with the lower order and to get a double hundred is a commendable thing.”Kohli said India had played the day much like they had planned it. They had expected Australia to use reverse swing with the old ball in the first session. “Pattinson was bowling really well with the old ball, reversing at pace. We decided to give respect to the bowlers bowing well. We knew if we batted the whole day, we’ll have a considerable lead and we’ll be in a great position in this Test. It was all about giving respect to good bowling and capitalising later on loose deliveries which MS and I were able to do.”Dhoni, he said had come out to bat with a clear idea about his approach. “He didn’t want to talk about the game, he didn’t want to talk about cricket. He said just talk about something else to me.” His instructions to Kohli were simple: “Don’t ask about how the wicket was, how the bowling was, nothing. He was pretty relaxed and calm so he didn’t want to talk a lot about the game. He was pretty sure what he wanted to do out in the middle.”Australia paid heavily going in with a single specialist spinner, Kohli said, as the wicket had begun to break on day three. After it had “evened out and eased up” on day two, he got one ball from Nathan Lyon shooting under his bat and the other hitting him on the chest. “I was pretty surprised with how quickly the wicket was coming off. If they [Australia] had more slow bowlers in the team you would have seen the difference of that wicket. The spinners are going to get a lot of turn and bounce tomorrow with the hard ball. That’s going to be the crucial thing – the wicket is getting roughed up by the day.”Speaking of his own batting, Kohli said he had been disappointed to get out soon after his hundred and called it, “this block I am facing – when I get 100 I get out.” He said, “As a batsman you would love to get big runs when you’ve scored century from a tough situation, you don’t want to throw it away.” His dismissal today – caught at mid-on by Mitchell Starc off Lyon – came because he got too close to the ball.”I was disappointed I got out. But I knew I wanted to go for that shot, so I went for it hundred percent. But I got too close to the ball and just didn’t get the elevation. But next time you can only learn from mistakes. I’ll try and erase all these errors that I have been doing after getting centuries.”Kohli said the century, the fourth of his Test career, had brought him extra pleasure as it followed a poor run against England and Pakistan. He had taken time away from the game to get ready for Australia. “Sometimes you just need to get away from the game and get your mind fresh and get back on track. I was feeling hungry for this series. I was eagerly waiting to get into the field and bat and feeling that is important for a cricketer.”

Nick Compton praised the role of Alastair Cook in helping nurse him towards a maiden Test hundred on the fourth day in Dunedin. The pair combined for their third century opening stand in 10 innings, with Cook scoring his 24th Test hundred, and Compton was grateful for the experience of his captain as he edged towards three figures.Cook, who fell with Compton on 99, did not have to wait for more than a few days for his first Test century, which came in just his second innings against India in Nagpur. While Compton’s wait has not been too long the final moments were surrounded by tension. Compton’s innings had started to flow more freely after a sticky start against the new ball, but once the 90s arrived scoring seized up again and, for a short while, it appeared he could be stranded overnight short of the milestone.”He’s fantastic, a real solid grounding sort of guy. He’s a special guy,” Compton said. “Both of us weren’t moving our feet too well early on and probably got away with it a little bit. It grew from there. It was great to have that over-by-over focus. He’s a tough character and he kept me going when at times I wanted to get on with it a little bit.”The Cook-Compton partnership replaced one of the most settled of England’s history. Cook walked out with Andrew Strauss in 117 innings and they are comfortably England’s most prolific first-wicket pair whose 4711 runs together included 12 century stands. The new era, however, has started productively with three hundred partnerships in 10 innings.They are now only one behind three pairs who had lengthy associations – Geoff Boycott and Graham Gooch (four in 49 innings), Michael Atherton and Marcus Trescothick (four in 30), Atherton and Mark Butcher (four in 32). Currently, too, for partnerships that have lasted at least 10 innings they sit second behind Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe in terms of average. A skewed statistic, yes, but one nonetheless that shows their early success.Before the Test, Cook spoke about the differences in their characters – the intensity of Compton – and how life has changed since he is no longer opening with Strauss. He said he felt a duty, as the senior man, to help Compton along.”I think you get a bit more intense when the pressure is on and you are searching for runs, trying to get yourself together,” Compton said. “I’ve always been someone who analyses myself quite a lot, probably to the detriment but I also think it’s got me to where I have – the hunger and the drive. Alastair is a very balanced guy, very level-headed guy.”When Cook finally fell, shortly before the close, edging behind off Trent Boult with the second new ball, the stand of 231 was England’s highest for the first wicket since Strauss and Trescothick added 273 against South Africa at Durban in 2004, which was the beginning of another rearguard after a poor first innings, and also their eighth-highest ever upfront.It has given England a good chance of salvaging a draw after two horrid days in another slow start to an overseas series. “We put ourselves in this position, we’re well aware of that,” Compton said. “We weren’t good enough in the first innings and New Zealand were right on it. They batted brilliantly, they bowled well. So it was a bit of a kick up the proverbial, if you know what I mean. It was a case of really trying to get back into it.”

Mumbai’s Abhishek Nayar has been selected to play for India A against Australia in a tour match in February. Nayar was not a part of the India A and Board President’s XI squads announced earlier this week.Nayar, who was the second-highest run-scorer in the Ranji Trophy this season, scored 966 runs for Mumbai, including three centuries and eight 50s. He also picked up 19 wickets to play an important role in the team’s 40th Ranji Trophy title.The India A team, led by Delhi’s Shikhar Dhawan, will play a three-day game against Australia from February 16-18 in Chennai.India A squad: Shikhar Dhawan (capt), Jiwanjot Singh, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Ajinkya Rahane, C Gautam, Rakesh Dhruv, Jalaj Saxena, Manpreet Gony, Vinay Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ashok Menaria, Abhishek Nayar.

When word filtered through that the fourth ODI at the SCG had been abandoned, it was not only the crowd of 22,521 who were intent on expressing their annoyance at the outcome. Sri Lanka’s captain, Mahela Jayawardene, could not hide his frustration at seeing the match fail to resume in circumstances that heavily favoured his side, having beaten far worse conditions against New Zealand in Pallekele only three months ago.Jayawardene said his team would write formally to the ICC match referee, Javagal Srinath, seeking an explanation for an inconsistency in rulings from one series to the next. Srinath had explained that play would not resume because he and the umpires Paul Reiffel and Marais Erasmus felt conditions were unfair, whereas in Sri Lanka the match referee, Andy Pycroft, had said play would only be stopped if deemed unsafe.This robbed Sri Lanka of an ideal chance to finish the series off, having bowled superbly to restrict Australia to 9 for 222, and Jayawardene expressed surprise that a ground as rich in history and facilities as the SCG could not get the game re-started.

Conditions for calling off play

3.5.3 Suspension of play for adverse conditions of ground, weather or light
If at any time the umpires together agree that the conditions of ground, weather or light are so bad that there is obvious and foreseeable risk to the safety of any player or umpire, so that it would be unreasonable or dangerous for play to take place, then they shall immediately suspend play, or not allow play to commence or to restart. The decision as to whether conditions are so bad as to warrant such action is one for the umpires alone to make.
The fact that the grass and the ball are wet and slippery does not warrant the ground conditions being regarded as unreasonable or dangerous. If the umpires consider the ground is so wet or slippery as to deprive the bowler of a reasonable foothold, the fielders of the power of free movement, or the batsmen of the ability to play their strokes or to run between the wickets, then these conditions shall be regarded as so bad that it would be unreasonable for play to take place.

“We played New Zealand three months ago and the interpretation we got in that series was quite different to what we got today,” Jayawardene said. “We played in Pallekele with a lot of rain and during the World Cup as well. I think we need to find a bit more consistency, so that’s something we’ll probably write and put across to them [the ICC] and see how we can go about it. At the SCG, I would assume that a ground of this magnitude you should be able to get a game in. Maybe they should do what we do back home and cover the entire ground.”I think we can write to the match referee because the interpretation we got three months ago in the New Zealand series was something totally different. It was deemed that we’d only stop play if it was dangerous, not unfair, but today the interpretation was different. I accept that, it comes from the match referee and the umpires so I’m happy to take that on board, but it was two interpretations we got within a three-month period.”Australia’s captain, Michael Clarke, had chosen to bat first upon winning the toss but Jayawardene, mindful of rain on the horizon and also the hosts’ struggles against the swinging, seaming ball in the past two matches, had always set his mind on sending his opponents in.”When we started today I was going to bowl,” he said. “Purely because of the weather that was going to be around today, so we were going to bowl first thinking that if it comes to Duckworth-Lewis we would have a better idea of what we needed chasing, and our guys bowled brilliantly up front.”With the rain coming in and the equation it would probably have been a much easier chase, but I guess we just need to put this behind us and look forward to the next game. We’ve played some really good cricket and it’s just a little disappointment, but we can take a lot out of the last three games, how we’ve come back into the series and controlled things.”For his part, Clarke indicated his own surprise at the game not resuming, saying that he had seen matches played at the SCG where far more rain had drenched the ground. The curator, Tom Parker, had indicated that the delay was caused by light rain that sat on the surface rather than sinking in, while a lack of any breeze made evaporation more of a challenge.”I think this ground is known for its drainage,” Clarke said. “I’ve played a number of games here where it’s held a lot more water than that and we’ve managed to get back on and play games of cricket. I think the hardest thing was the water didn’t really sink in, it sat on top, there was no sun around and no wind.”Sri Lanka would’ve loved to get back on there as the game got shorter. It was probably going to suit them a lot more. But we certainly wanted to play as well to give ourselves a chance to win the series. Unfortunately we can’t win the series now, we can only level it.”

Nazmul Hassan, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president, has said the decision to tour Pakistan is still “two to four days” away after his Pakistan counterpart Zaka Ashraf claimed that the BCB had confirmed that the tour was on. The BCB is awaiting a security assessment to be conducted by the ICC before making an announcement.”In my opinion, we can reach a final decision in the next two to four days,” Hassan told BBC Bangla Service on Saturday. “We will ask the ICC to complete their security assessment for match officials and the moment they finalise their stance, we can give our confirmation.”It [the decision to tour] will somewhat depend on the ICC’s decision. We need to know their security assessment. Our security team that had gone to Pakistan said the security is adequate.”Earlier in the day, Ashraf said the BCB had communicated its willingness to tour Pakistan. “We were in constant touch with the BCB officials and they have conveyed to us that the tour is confirmed,” Ashraf told AFP. “They have also got approval from their board members and we are in touch for the schedule.”Hassan said that having agreed to tour Pakistan, there was no question of backing down. “We have committed to travel to Pakistan and it is my understanding that the commitment is minuted in an ICC meeting.”Since we have made a commitment and if we think the security is satisfactory, I think we should go. We will see the ICC’s security assessment and conduct our own assessment. We will adopt every possible precaution before going.”Bangladesh has reached a stage in world cricket where it won’t be wise to not keep a commitment. It could be used as an example in future.”Bangladesh’s proposed tour to Pakistan hit a snag earlier this year when, on April 19, a Dhaka court order embargoed a series between the two scheduled for the end of April.