Australia's first Test tour to Bangladesh in more than a decade could take place next year after the planned post-Ashes series in 2015 was postponed due to security concerns.  

Cricket Australia Chief Executive James Sutherland has confirmed that CA has recently held ‘off-line’ discussions with the Bangladesh Cricket Board and that the series has been pencilled into the international schedule for the 2017 southern hemisphere winter subject to security clearances, reported cricket.com.au.

Bangladesh Cricket Board promised VVIP security in an effort to salvage the tour, but were unsuccessful. The Australian Under-19s had also withdrawn from the World Cup that was held in Bangladesh at the start of 2016.  

Despite championing Bangladesh's rise to Test match status at the turn of the century, Australia has not played the Tigers in Test cricket since Ricky Ponting's team toured there in 2006, with only a handful of ODI matches played between the nations in Darwin (2008) and Dhaka (2011) since then.

On Tuesday, Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland, who had made the pull out public last year, said they were keen to resume ties. ‘We've had discussions offline with the Bangladesh Cricket Board. They know and understand that we're absolutely committed to playing that [postponed] tour, obviously subject to security matters that we need to go through in preparation for that tour. But we're very much looking forward to getting back to Bangladesh and playing cricket over there.’

BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury also told ESPNcricinfo that, ‘after discussions with Cricket Australia, we are at the final stages of finalising the commitment for their tour to Bangladesh next year, and we will announce the tour dates once everything is confirmed.’

It is understood that the two Tests could be held immediately after the 2017 Champions Trophy in England, which runs from June 1 to 18, although cricket in Bangladesh is not usually played in the months between May and October.