Sri Lanka cricket team players arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Sunday — @BCBtigers Sri Lankan Cricket team, led by new ODI captain Kusal Perera, arrived in the capital Sunday morning to play a three-match ODI series against the Tigers, report agencies.
The Sri Lankan players, who landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8 :15 am by a Sri Lankan Airlines flight, will play three day-night basis ODI matches on May 23, 25 and 28, all at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the city.
Soon after their arrival, the Sri Lanka team went to Sonargaon Hotel for three-day quarantine from May 16-18.
On completion of quarantine period, the tourists will have an opportunity to make a two-day training session at BCB national cricket academy on May 19-20.
Later, visiting Lankan team will play a one-day practice match among them on May 21 at BKSP in Savar.
Sri Lanka players will undergo Covid-19 test twice before they start practice on May 19.
"They came here with corona negative certificate from Sri Lanka but the visitors will go through a series of corona test as per the rules of our government," chief physician of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Dr. Debashis Chowdhury said in the city on Sunday.
The Bangladesh players however will undergo a Covid-19 test on May 17 after the Eid holiday. Subject to the negative in Covid-19 test, they can join practice session again.
The Sri Lanka is the second team to visit in Bangladesh during the pandemic period. BCB earlier successfully hosted West Indies in January-February.
Bangladesh however earned 30 points after beating West Indies by 3-0 in three-match ODI series but lost to New Zealand in away series by same margin. Sri Lanka on the other hand lost the three-match series to West Indies in away by 3-0.
Sri Lankan Squad: Kusal Perera (capt), Kusal Mendis (vice-capt), Danushka Gunathilaka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Pathum Nissanka, Dasun Shanaka, Ashen Bandara, Wanindu Hasaranga, IsuruUdana, Akila Dananjaya, Niroshan Dickwella, Dushmantha Chameera, Ramesh Mendis, Asitha Fernando, Lakshan Sandakan, Chamika Karunaratne, Binura Fernando and Shiran Fernando
Bangladesh preliminary squad: Iqbal Khan, Naim Sheikh, Imrul Kayes, Litton Kumer Das, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Md Mithun, Mahmud Ullah, Afif Hossain Dhrubo, Musaddek Hossain Saikat, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Mehidy Hassan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Nasum Ahmed, Shaif Uddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Shoriful Islam and Shohidul Islam
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