Busy 2010 for Tigers

The Bangladesh cricket team will have a busy schedule next year as revealed by the home schedules released by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday. The season will start with the tri-nation tournament involving India and Sri Lanka in January.
Sri Lanka will arrive in Dhaka on January 1. India is scheduled to arrive on January 2 to take part in the tri-nation tournament, which will be followed by a two-match Test series against the Tigers.
All the day-night matches of the tri-nation tournament will be held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.
After the tournament India and Bangladesh will travel to Chittagong to play the first Test at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium starting from January 17 while the second and final Test will be held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur from January 24 to January 28.
Tigers will then fly for New Zealand to play one Test and three one-day internationals in February and soon after their return they will face England in their next home assignment.
England will arrive in Dhaka on February 17 to play three ODIs and two Tests besides three one-day and one three-day match.
Bangladesh enjoyed a rare success in 2009 a season they completed with the 4-1 home series victory against Zimbabwe this month. But they await a big challenge in the new year with the top-ranked opponents coming.
In this year Bangladesh played hardly against the top teams rather they took on bottom-ranked Zimbabwe thrice and got a second-ranked West Indies side to achieve a historic Test and one-day series win in the Caribbean.

ITINERARY
(Tri-nation ODI competition & India's tour of Bangladesh)
January 4: Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Mirpur
January 5: Sri Lanka v India at Mirpur.
January 7: Bangladesh v India at Mirpur.
January 8: Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Mirpur.
January 10: Sri Lanka v India at Mirpur.
January 11: Bangladesh v India at Mirpur.
January 13: Final at Mirpur.
January 17-21: First Test at Chittagong.
January 24-28: Second Test at Mirpur.

England's tour of Bangldesh
February 21: One-day Warm-up v BCB XI
February 23: One-day Warm-up v BCB XI
February 25: One-day Warm-up v BCB XI
February 28: First ODI at Mirpur.
March 2: Second ODI at Mirpur
March 5: Third ODI at Chittagong
March 7-9: 3-dayer against Bangladesh A at Chittagong
March 12-16: First Test at Chittagong
March 20-24: Second Test at Mirpur.