Bangladesh are slated to play one Test, three ODIs and two T20Is in June at home against Afghanistan however the venues are yet to be determined. The series will be played in two phases. Afghanistan will play the one-off Test before going to India for a white-ball series during Eid ul Adha before returning back to Bangladesh to play the ODIs and T20Is, BCB cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus had informed travelling media at Chelmsford yesterday.
“Since we have rescheduled from earlier, we will finalise in a day or two where the venues will be. It was planned earlier that they would play one of the formats and then head back to India. Afghanistan will return back from India and play the rest of the series,” Jalal had said.
There were some delay in Afghanistan’s series against India being confirmed and since the series falls within the Eid vacations, the BCB were willing to comply with Afghanistan’s request.
“They were not supposed to stay during Eid anyway. They were excited about the India series but it wasn’t getting confirmed. Once it was confirmed, Afghanistan requested that they wanted to go and play India after playing one of the formats. We accepted it since it’s vacation time here too,” Jalal had said.
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