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The Bangladesh
Cricket Board made the announcement on Saturday that they will be rescheduling
their July away all-format series against Afghanistan.
After the ICC T20 World Cup, the Afghanistan Cricket Board was scheduled to
visit Bangladesh for two Test matches, three ODIs, and three T20Is.
“The away series against Afghanistan will be rescheduled after both boards
agreed to play the series at some other point of time,” BCB cricket
operations chairman Jalal Yunus confirmed the development.
Bangladesh will only
be playing in eight Tests in 2024 instead of the twelve that were originally
planned, along with other white-ball assignments. This comes after they decided
to play just five Twenty20 international matches instead of their scheduled two-match
Test series against Zimbabwe in May.
After the T20 World Cup, Bangladesh will visit Pakistan for a two-match Test
series, and then they will trip India for a series consisting of two Tests and
three T20Is. Despite this, Bangladesh will still have a busy 2024.
Bangladesh will play two Tests and three ODIs and three T20Is in the West
Indies in November and December, respectively, after hosting South Africa for a
two-match Test series in October.
Shakib al Hasan, the
all-around talisman, has told the board that he is prepared to play frequently
for Bangladesh in all formats, which has given the team a major boost.
It is known that he took the gap in order to ensure that his vision problem had
been fully addressed before returning to international cricket. Shakib was
diagnosed with an eye condition that had been bothering him since the ICC World
Cup and had persisted through the Bangladesh Premier League’s early stages.
Earlier, Shakib insisted that he would make a decision regarding his
international cricket future following the ICC Champions Trophy in 2025 and now
BCB is expecting him to be available without any disruption till that point of
time.