Internation Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday announced the Future Tours Programme (FTP) of Bangladesh for the period of 2023-2027.
According to the FTP published by ICC, Bangladesh will play against other ICC full members.
FTP includes cricket fixtures with the confirmation of all bilateral series across the three formats. The exact dates of the series will be decided by the members.
Bangladesh will make a tour of Ireland in June 2023, which will be followed by a home series of two Tests, three ODIs, and three T20Is against Afghanistan in June.
The men’s cricket team will also have a busy calendar in 2024. They will host Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe from February to April and then Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in away Tests mid-year.
A home Test series against South Africa, and an away full tour of the West Indies (two Tests, three ODIS, and three T20Is). The Test series will be part of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 and the features of 2025-27 WTC finishes for them with a challenging home series against England and an away series against Australia.
The announcement of the Men’s FTP comes a day after the first-ever Women’s FTP was announced.
“The 2023-2027 FTP is very pleasing for Bangladesh. We have received a healthy share of matches against other members,” BCB Chief Executive Nizam Uddin Chowdhury said.
“BCB believes that the FTP should be based on a fair distribution of matches, we are happy that the new FTP provides us with a greater number of international crickets compared to the previous cycle."
“We have been emphasising on the importance of playing more international cricket to attain the desired standards and the ICC FTP 2023-2027 gives us the ample opportunity for our players to compete regularly at a high level which will be beneficial for individual and collective improvement.”
