Bangladesh national cricket team will travel to Sri Lanka in the late this month to play three ODIs against the hosts. It will be the first international cricket assignment in Sri Lanka since the Easter bombings last April.
This series was planned early this year. Initially, Bangladesh had a plan to tour Sri Lanka in December 2019. But later, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) wished to tour Sri Lanka early this year to avoid the clash with 2019/20 Bangladesh Premier League. The 2019/20 BPL is likely to begin on 6th December 2019.
Meanwhile, since the Easter bombings incident last April, the BCB put on hold on their confirmation of this series. After monitoring the security situation in Sri Lanka, the BCB has finally given the green signal on this series. Bangladesh will now travel to Sri Lanka in late this month to play the three-match ODI bilateral series against the home team.
The media director of BCB, Jalal Yunus told ESPNcricinfo, “We have done our security assessment and we wanted to play all the games in Colombo. We are ready to go ahead with the tour.”
The detail information about this upcoming ODI series
Initially, the first ODI was scheduled on 25th July. However, according to the latest schedule, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will play the first ODI on 26th July. They will play the next two ODIs of this series on 28th July and 31st July respectively.
R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium (Colombo) will host all the three matches of this series. Moreover, all the ODIs will be day/night encounters.
Bangladesh team will land in Sri Lanka on 23rd July and will leave Sri Lanka on 1st August. Meanwhile, after this series, New Zealand will travel to Sri Lanka to play the Test and T20I bilateral series against the home team.
Last time, Bangladesh played a bilateral ODI series against the host side Sri Lanka in March-April 2017. In that three-match ODI series, it was a draw result with 1-1. Till the date, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have met 19 times in ODI cricket in Sri Lanka where Bangladesh have won only twice while Sri Lanka have won 15 matches (two had no results).
The full schedule of Bangladesh tour of Sri Lanka in 2019
26th July 2019: 1st ODI (D/N) – R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium (Colombo)
28th July 2019: 2nd ODI (D/N) – R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium (Colombo)
31st July 2019: 3rd ODI (D/N) – R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium (Colombo)