BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh will take on Pakistan in the first Test of the two-match Test series, which is scheduled to begin today (Friday) at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Pakistan.
The match kicks off at 11 AM Bangladesh Standard Time (BST).
Earlier on Wednesday, Bangladesh team reached Islamabad via Doha, Qatar for the first Test against hosts Pakistan. They were brought to Rawalpindi from the Pakistani capital later by a bus amid tight security.
Bangladesh team didn’t keep any activity on the day of their arrival in Rawalpindi. But, they are scheduled to hold their first training session at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
The Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium has so far hosted nine Tests.
This is the second phase of Bangladesh’s three-leg tour of Pakistan. Bangladesh completed the first phase of the tour last month in Lahore where they lost the T20 series 2-0 after the third match was washed out.
Bangladesh Coach Russell Domingo, however, looked unhappy for getting
a day only for training session.
Prior leaving the country, he, in a press conference, said, “The boys are going there with less preparation as they did not get enough time to prepare themselves for the Test.”
However, Coach Russell Domingo dreams to win the Test in foreign soil by saying, “We’ll have to win Test on foreign soil … If we are practical, it will not be hard to get victory in World Test Championship … We are tenth on Test ranking and our team want to win Test on foreign soil and if it happen, then the team will become self-confident.”
Bangladesh so far played two Tests in World Test Championship and lost both the matches to India held in November in India. So, they have no points in their account.
Both Bangladesh and Pakistan played 10 Tests with Bangladesh lost nine matches while the remaining one Test ended in a draw.
Pakistan have already started their preparations and got trained at Rawalpindi from Tuesday. The second Test of the two-Test series will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi from April 5 after the Pakistan Super League (PSL) along with one-off ODI. The Test in Rawalpindi will be the Tigers’ first in Pakistan since 2003.
Bangladesh lost 3-0 to Pakistan in its last Test series in 2003, which included the home teams’ nail-biting one-wicket victory at Multan.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) posted pictures upon safe arrival of the Bangladesh players in Islamabad. “Arrival of @BCBtigers team at Islamabad. Warm welcome to the visitors in the federal capital,” the PCB tweet read.
Squads:
Bangladesh (likely): Tamim Iqbal, Saif Hassan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mominul Haque (captain), Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah Riyad, Liton Das (wicket keeper), Taijul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Abu Jayed and Ebadot Hossain.
Pakistan (likely): Shan Masood, Abid Ali, Azhar Ali (captain), Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (wicket keeper), Haris Sohail, Asad Shafiq, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Abbas, Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi.
Bangladesh will take on Pakistan in the first Test of the two-match Test series, which is scheduled to begin today (Friday) at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Pakistan.
The match kicks off at 11 AM Bangladesh Standard Time (BST).
Earlier on Wednesday, Bangladesh team reached Islamabad via Doha, Qatar for the first Test against hosts Pakistan. They were brought to Rawalpindi from the Pakistani capital later by a bus amid tight security.
Bangladesh team didn’t keep any activity on the day of their arrival in Rawalpindi. But, they are scheduled to hold their first training session at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
The Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium has so far hosted nine Tests.
This is the second phase of Bangladesh’s three-leg tour of Pakistan. Bangladesh completed the first phase of the tour last month in Lahore where they lost the T20 series 2-0 after the third match was washed out.
Bangladesh Coach Russell Domingo, however, looked unhappy for getting
a day only for training session.
Prior leaving the country, he, in a press conference, said, “The boys are going there with less preparation as they did not get enough time to prepare themselves for the Test.”
However, Coach Russell Domingo dreams to win the Test in foreign soil by saying, “We’ll have to win Test on foreign soil … If we are practical, it will not be hard to get victory in World Test Championship … We are tenth on Test ranking and our team want to win Test on foreign soil and if it happen, then the team will become self-confident.”
Bangladesh so far played two Tests in World Test Championship and lost both the matches to India held in November in India. So, they have no points in their account.
Both Bangladesh and Pakistan played 10 Tests with Bangladesh lost nine matches while the remaining one Test ended in a draw.
Pakistan have already started their preparations and got trained at Rawalpindi from Tuesday. The second Test of the two-Test series will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi from April 5 after the Pakistan Super League (PSL) along with one-off ODI. The Test in Rawalpindi will be the Tigers’ first in Pakistan since 2003.
Bangladesh lost 3-0 to Pakistan in its last Test series in 2003, which included the home teams’ nail-biting one-wicket victory at Multan.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) posted pictures upon safe arrival of the Bangladesh players in Islamabad. “Arrival of @BCBtigers team at Islamabad. Warm welcome to the visitors in the federal capital,” the PCB tweet read.
Squads:
Bangladesh (likely): Tamim Iqbal, Saif Hassan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mominul Haque (captain), Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah Riyad, Liton Das (wicket keeper), Taijul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Abu Jayed and Ebadot Hossain.
Pakistan (likely): Shan Masood, Abid Ali, Azhar Ali (captain), Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (wicket keeper), Haris Sohail, Asad Shafiq, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Abbas, Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi.
