West Indies will arrive on October 4 for a month-long tour. They will play two practice matches, three ODIs, a Twenty20 international and two Tests against the Tigers.
The first leg of the tour will be played in Dhaka where the tourists will take part in two practice matches and then the Twenty20 on October 11 before the ODI series begins two days later at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. The third ODI will be held in Chittagong, which will also host the first Test of the two-match series. The tour will conclude with the second Test back in Dhaka.
The scheduled two warm-up games raised a few eyebrows but cricket operations manager Sabbir Khan explained the ICC ruling in the matter of the practice matches.
"Normally, the rule is for the visiting team to get a three-day game if their first game on tour is a Test match and if it's the start of an ODI series, it will be one or two one-day games as the warm-up," he said yesterday.
"West Indies wanted to play two one-dayers for this series and they have the right to ask," added Sabbir, begging the question that why the Tigers couldn't do so during the Zimbabwe series.
"Obviously we played a Test to start the tour, and we asked them to extend the initially scheduled two-day game into a three-dayer back in February," he informed.
Interestingly, the Twenty20 international will only be the second in Bangladesh after the Tigers played their inaugural game against Zimbabwe on November 28, 2006.
It will also be the Tigers' first Twenty20 game in more than a year after their early exit from the 2010 World Twenty20s.
Courtesy: The Daily Star
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