Tigers' one-day warm-up today
New batting consultant likely to join team by July 22
Bangladesh will be looking to start afresh in the three-match ODI series against the West Indies starting from July 22 after their humiliating defeat in the two-match Test series as the visitors take on the UWI Vice Chancellor's XI featuring Chris Gayle and Andre Russell in a fifty-over warm-up game at Sabina Park in Jamaica today.
The game starts at 1:00am Bangladesh time.
Tigers' ODI skipper Mahsrafe Bin Mortaza, who flew for West Indies on Monday, will miss the warm-up match but the other five members of the ODI squad, including pacer Mustafizur Rahman, have already joined the side and are expected to take the field today.
Bangladesh can gain some confidence in the fifty-over format where they have a better track record, but it will be difficult for the struggling Tigers to overcome the debacle in the Test series, which included their lowest Test score of 43 all out in the first innings of the first Test in Antigua.
The second and third match of the ODI series will take place on July 26 and 28 respectively.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB] CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury yesterday informed that the new batting consultant of the Bangladesh national team is set to join the side in West Indies by July 22.
Nizamuddin however did not reveal the name of the batting consultant and informed that the details of his contract will be revealed soon. But it was widely reported that former South Africa batsman Neil McKenzie is set to join the Tigers till the 2019 ICC World Cup in England.