Bangladesh cricket team has reached Christchurch, New Zealand

Sports Desk: The Bangladesh cricket team boarded a flight to New Zealand on Singapore Airlines at 4 pm the previous day. Tamim-Mahmudullah Riyadh reached Christchurch, New Zealand in the early hours of Bangladesh time today. The 20-member cricket team was accompanied by another 15-member staff, coaching staff. The huge fleet will first observe a week-long quarantine in Christchurch.

Then practice. The three-match ODI series against hosts New Zealand will start on March 20. The Tigers will then play a three-match T20 series. Bangladesh team went to New Zealand without Shakib Al Hasan. Shakib will be the father of the third child, so he has taken leave to stay by his wife's side. In the meantime, he has also migrated to the United States. The Tigers will hold a five-day special preparation camp in Queenstown at the end of the quarantine.

Then the three-match ODI series will start from March 20. The first ODI will be in Dunedin. Then on March 23 the second ODI in Christchurch. The last ODI is on March 26 in Wellington. After the ODI series, the T20 series will start on March 26 in Hamilton. The second T20 match will be played in Napier on March 30. The third and final T20 of the series on April 1 in Auckland.

Bangladesh squad in New Zealand tour

Tamim Iqbal, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Nazmul Hossain Shant, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mohammad Mithun, Liton Das, Mahmudullah Riyad, Afif Hossain Dhrub, Soumya Sarkar, Naeem Sheikh, Taskin Ahmed, Al Amin Hossain, Shariful Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Mohammad Saifuddin, Rahman, Mehedi Hasan Miraj, Sheikh Mehedi Hasan, Rubel Hossain, Nasum Ahmed.