Bangladesh national cricket team is set to fly for Zimbabwe early Tuesday for one Test, three ODIs, and as many T20Is.
The series will start on July 7 with the Test; all matches will take place at Harare Sports Club.
The Tigers will board a Qatar Airways flight at 4:25am.
The players have just finished the month-long Banglabandhu Dhaka Premier Division T20 Cricket League.
First, 18 members of the Bangladesh Test squad will go to Zimbabwe. The players who will play ODIs and T20Is will leave Dhaka on July 9 and the ones who will only play T20Is will leave Dhaka on July 16.
Shakib Al Hasan, who will represent Bangladesh in every format in the series, will leave for Zimbabwe from the US.
Bangladesh team will not have to undergo any special quarantine after arriving in Zimbabwe. They will be allowed to join practice session immediately.
For this series, Bangladesh selectors brought Nurul Hasan Sohan back to all three formats of the game after a gap of three years; Shamim Hossain is a new face in the T20Is.
Bangladesh’s T20I captain Mahmudullah Riyad has also been added to the Test squad.
Bangladesh team members went through a Covid-19 test and returned negative before their journey, Monjur Hossain Chowdhury, a Bangladesh Cricket Board physician, told UNB.
Bangladesh Test squad
Muminul Haque (captain), Tamim Iqbal, Shdman Islam, Saif Hassan, Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das, Mahmudullah Riyad, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan Sohan, Mehedy Hasan Miraz, Taizul Islam, Nayeem Hasan, Abu Jayed Rahi, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain and Shoriful Islam
In: Shakib Al Hasan, Nurul Hasan Sohan and Naeem Hasan, Mahmudullah Riyad
Out: Mohammad Mithun
Source: United News of Bangladesh