Agency :
To play three T20Is and two Tests against Bangladesh, the Pakistan national cricket team arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning.
This is Pakistan’s first bilateral series against Bangladesh after 2015 even though they last came in Bangladesh in 2016 for Asia Cup T20 tournament. During the only T20 match of the series in 2015 and Asia Cup T20 in 2016, Bangladesh beat Pakistan and those were two times, they could beat Pakistan in this format. Overall the two teams played 12 matches and Pakistan won the rest of the 10 matches.
The Pakistani team took a direct flight to Dhaka from Dubai where they ended their T20 World Cup campaign with a defeat in the hands of Australia in the semis. Before that defeat, they were playing wonderful cricket — winning five out of five matches.
The two-match Test series is part of World Test Champions (WTC) and Bangladesh basically will open their campaign in the second edition of the WTC with this series.
The T20I series will begin on November 19 in Dhaka, while the other two matches will be played on November 20 and 22 at the same venue.
After that, both teams will travel to Chattogram where the first Test will begin on November 26. The teams will return to Dhaka to play the second Test which will begin on December 4.
