"The board is planning to host the African nation for three ODIs before Bangladesh's home series against Sri Lanka, but things have not yet been finalised," said a board official yesterday.

It was learnt that the Bangla-desh Cricket Board was due to take a decision about the series very soon but the sudden illness of its general secretary Mahbubul Anam had left the issue pending.

"We had a meeting to discuss preparation of the venues ahead of the Sri Lanka series and some other important issues, but we have to wait until the general secretary returns from Singapore after treatment," said joint-secretary Rafiqul Islam Babu.

Babu, who is in charge of the grounds, said they have to finalise the venues for the two Tests and three one-day matches against Sri Lanka otherwise it would be impossible to announce a fresh itinerary as the Lankans have brought ahead their trip by ten days.

"There are a lot of works to do to prepare the Mirpur Stadium for international matches and we can only hope that we will be able to arrange a match here in March. But before that, we have to get the approval from the ICC team on some venues," he added.