The Sri Lankan cricket team is coming to Bangladesh on May 16 to play three matches as part of the ICC ODI Super League.
The three ODIs will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has kept all the matches at the same venue mainly due to the bad situation of Corona. All the matches of the series will be played in the bio-safety zone day and night. On Wednesday, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced the schedule of the tour schedule.
Bangladesh team: Tamim Iqbal, Naeem Sheikh, Imrul Kayes, Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Nazmul Hossain Shant, Shakib Al Hasan, Mostafizur Rahman, Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah, Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Sheikh Mehedi Hasan, Mehedi Hasan Miraj, Taizul Islam , Nasum Ahmed, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mostafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Shariful Islam and Shahidul Islam.
The visitors will be in quarantine for three days from the day of arrival. Sri Lanka will then play a warm-up match on May 21 at BKSP. There will be three ODIs on May 23, 25 and 28. This will be Bangladesh's third series in the ODI Super League.
After whitewashing West Indies, they have whitewashed themselves against New Zealand. Sri Lanka have yet to see a point in this tournament.
The former world champions lost two points for a slow over rate in the series against the West Indies. This is the second tour of any team to play international cricket during the epidemic. The West Indies played a series of Tests and ODIs earlier this year.