The fate of England’s tour of Bangladesh, due to start on the last day of next month, is expected to be decided this week and to hinge on the assessment report by the England and Wales Cricket Board’s chief security officer, Reg Dickason.

Dickason flew back from Dhaka at the weekend after a fortnight’s inspection of India and Bangladesh, along with the ECB’s head of cricket operations, John Carr, and the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers Association, David Leatherdale.

The three-man delegation was given many assurances of security by the Bangladesh Cricket Board and the country’s home ministry ahead of the tour, which will consist of two Tests and three one-day internationals. The job of Dickason – a former Queensland policeman before he became Australian cricket’s head of security then England’s – is to judge how worthwhile those assurances are.