In a latest improvement, the Bangladesh Cricket Board and the Afghanistan Cricket Board have agreed to reschedule the 2 groups’ all-format collection past the ICC T20 World Cup in June. The Bangla Tigers had been set to play an away collection towards Afghanistan in UAE in July. Nonetheless, after the latest assembly between the boards, they’ll now be enjoying towards one another at any level of time after the month of July.
This improvement was confirmed by Bangladesh Cricket Board’s Operations Chairman Jalal Younis to Cricbuzz. Younis had acknowledged that the assembly with ACB proved to be fruitful and that there weren’t many difficulties confronted in the course of the negotiations to shift the all-format collection. This is able to have marked the primary time Afghanistan hosted Bangladesh for a collection. Beforehand, it was the Afghans who toured the nation for ODIs, T20Is, and Checks.
“The away collection towards Afghanistan will likely be rescheduled after each boards agreed to play the collection at another level of time,” Jalal Younis, BCB Operations Chairman stated through Cricbuzz.
What number of Checks, ODIs, and T20Is would have Bangladesh performed towards Afghanistan?
Afghanistan, who had a much better efficiency in final 12 months’s Cricket World Cup as in comparison with their earlier appearances, would have hosted Bangladesh for a full-fledged collection. The collection would, nonetheless, see them play 2 Take a look at matches, 3 One-day matches, and three T20Is every.
Final 12 months, the 2 nations performed an identical all-format collection when Bangladesh hosted Afghanistan in June. Therein, the Bangla Tigers claimed victory within the one-off Take a look at match in Mirpur as half of the present World Take a look at Championship cycle and had additionally received the 3-match T20I collection by a margin of 2-1.
The Afghanis had been capable of solely win the 3-match ODI collection by 2-1 and since then they’ve confronted Bangladesh twice – in the course of the 50-over Asia Cup 2023 and the CWC in India. The Bangladeshis had received each of these Asia Cup and Cricket World Cup ties towards Afghanistan by 89 runs and 6 wickets respectively at Lahore and Dharamshala respectively.
When it comes to red-ball cricket, the Asians have met one another on solely 2 events. The primary time they performed a Take a look at match was in the course of the first WTC cycle the place Afghanistan had claimed victory by 224 runs in Chottogram after which final 12 months, Bangladesh had registered an excellent 546-run victory in Mirpur.
The all-format collection which has now been rescheduled, would have seen Bangladesh and Afghanistan lock horns towards one another just for the third time within the longest format.
Large increase for Bangladesh as Shakib Al Hasan set to return
In the meantime, the Bangla Tigers have been handed with a significant increase as senior all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is all set to return in motion throughout all codecs. Jalal Younis confirmed this improvement whereas chatting with Cricbuzz and likewise claimed that Shakib is a key determine within the crew.
“He is able to play in all of the three codecs within the coming days except there may be some health points and that’s excellent news for us contemplating his expertise may be very important for our crew,” Younis concluded.