Bangladesh to host Zimbabwe in November 2015

Bangladesh to host Zimbabwe in November 2015: Zimbabwe will be touring Bangladesh in November 2015 to play a two test series.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan said Zimbabwe had agreed to tour that month although no date had been finalised. “Zimbabwe have principally agreed to tour Bangladesh in November. We will finalise the date with Zimbabwe officials during next week’s International Cricket Council [ICC] meeting in Dubai,”

Initially, Zimbabwe were scheduled to tour Bangladesh from January 11 to February 7 to play two Tests, three ODI’s and three T20I.

But, the tour has been now divided into two part. Zimbabwe would now play Tests in November and come back again in January for the ODIs and T20s.

The postponement comes as a result of the heightened tension in Bangladesh after an Italian and a Japanese were killed in separate attacks claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. In other incident, three Islamic attackers attempted Monday to slit a Christian pastor’s throat in a mainly Muslim town in northern Bangladesh.

Originally, Australia were scheduled to tour Bangladesh. But, few days back, Australia cancelled its two test series against Bangladesh this month citing security reasons. The ISIS militants had warned that they may attack foreigners.