Zim coming a day early
Sports Reporter
Zimbabwe Cricket announced a 15-member team for this month's tour to Bangladesh.Prosper Utseya-led Southern African side will arrive in Dhaka on November 22, one day ahead of the earlier schedule. During their visit Zimbabwe will play a Twenty20 match and a five-match one-day series against the Tigers. But interestingly Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) disclosed a revised itinerary yesterday where they included a three-day and a four-day match, though it will be played between Zimbabwe A and Bangladesh A. Zimbabwe will open their campaign with a warm-up match against Bangladesh Under-19 at BKSP on November 26 and then will visit Khulna to play the Twenty20 tie on November 28. They will play the first one-dayer against Habibul Bashar's men on November 30. The second and third one-dayers will take place at Bogra on December 3 and 5 under floodlights while the last two games will be held at Dhaka. BCB has proposed two venues -- Fatullah Cricket Stadium and Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, for the Dhaka matches but the Mirpur venue is subject to the International Cricket Council's (ICC) approval for staging international matches. An ICC team are expected to arrive in the capital next week to inspect the board's "Home of Cricket". The three-day match will start from December 11 and the four-dayer is scheduled to begin on December 15 at Dhaka. TEAM Chamunorwa Chibhabha, Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor, Stuart Matsikinyeri, Elton Chigumbura, Gary Brent, Prosper Utseya (captain), Anthony Ireland, Mluleki Nkala, Sean Williams, Keith Dabengwa, Christopher Mpofu, Blessing Mahwire, Ryan Higgins and Tinotenda Mawoyo.
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