After Zimbabwe, UAE to face Bangladesh next

Sports Desk

Following their Test series against Zimbabwe, Bangladesh’s next opponent will be the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Ahead of their upcoming Pakistan tour, Bangladesh has decided to play a T20 series against the UAE.

Rumors about this series had been circulating for some time. Finally, the Emirates Cricket Board officially announced the schedule for the series on Friday.

The two T20 matches will take place on the 17th and 19th of next month. The Sharjah International Cricket Stadium has been chosen as the venue for both matches. The games will begin at 7 PM local time, which is 9 PM Bangladesh time.

This will be the second bilateral T20 series between Bangladesh and the UAE. Previously, just before the 2022 T20 World Cup, the two teams faced off in two T20 matches in Dubai. Bangladesh won both matches in that series.

After completing this series against the UAE, the Bangladesh team will head straight to Pakistan. The schedule for the Pakistan tour was announced just two days ago.

The Bangladesh team will arrive in Pakistan on May 21. The first two matches of the five-match T20 series will be held in Faisalabad on May 25 and 27, respectively. The remaining three matches will take place in Lahore on May 30, June 1, and June 3.

According to the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) future tours program, Bangladesh was originally scheduled to play three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and three T20 matches during this Pakistan tour. However, prioritizing preparations for next year’s T20 World Cup, both cricket boards mutually agreed to cancel the ODI series and increase the number of T20 matches to five.

The tenth edition of the T20 World Cup will be jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka in February and March next year.