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Pakistan cricket team to arrive today

The Pakistan cricket team will arrive in Dhaka this morning to play three T20Is and two Tests  against Bangladesh.

The tour will start with T20Is as hosts Bangladesh will play the first match against visiting Pakistan next Friday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur.

Pakistan cricket team were supposed to come this Tuesday, but since they lost to Australia in the semi-final a couple of days ago, they will arrive a few days earlier, according to team source.

Skipper Babar Azam and Shoaib Malik will arrive this Tuesday.

The Pakistan team will directly enter a bio-secure bubble at a hotel in the capital after landing. According to government mandated protocols, the players can start practising from the next day given they return negative Covid tests after arrival.

Pakistan will play the three T20Is against Bangladesh on November 19, 20 and 22 – all at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, with a 2:00pm starting time.

The teams will play the first Test from November 26 at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram before playing the second Test in Mirpur from December 4.

Pakistan announced a strong squad for the Bangladesh tour as only Mohammad Hafeez from their T20 World Cup squad is not coming for the T20I series.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh Cricket Board is going to announce the squad for the three-match T20I series soon as it was learnt that quite a few changes are being pondered in the squad compared to the one that played in the T20 World Cup.

Bangladesh lost against Scotland in the qualifiers before winning against Oman and Papua New Guinea to qualify for the Super 12 stage.

But in the Super 12 they lost all five of their games, and put in frustrating performances with the bat in the last two games where they were all out for just 84 and 73 against South Africa and Australia respectively.

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