Australia to visit Bangladesh for 5 Twenty20 internationals next month

Australia will visit Bangladesh for five Twenty20 internationals early next month, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said in an AFP report.

The visitors will land on July 29 ahead of the matches on August 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka, likely behind closed doors.

According to AFP, BCB CEO Nizam Uddin Chowdhury said that the coronavirus pandemic made organizing the tour “a challenge.”

“I am pleased to say that a comprehensive bio-security plan is in place and will be implemented during the tour for the protection of players and staff of the two teams and the match officials,” he said.

Bangladesh is in the middle of a major surge in Covid-19 cases.

A strict lockdown will resume next week following a break for Eid Al-Adha.

More than a million Bangladeshis have now been infected and over 18,000 have died — figures seen as a gross undercount.