The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced the dates for the Bangabandhu T20 Cup yesterday, scheduling the tournament to begin on November 24 and slating the final for December 18.

Beximco Dhaka will take on Minister Group Rajshahi in the opening game, which will be a day game starting at 2:00pm, before Fortune Barishal face Gemcon Khulna in the day's second game scheduled to begin from 7:00pm under lights.

All the matches, including the final, will take at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur and will be telecast Live by T Sports.

All five teams will play two matches against each other in a round robin league and the top two sides will play a qualifier while the third and fourth-placed teams will take part in an eliminator.

The winner of the eliminator will face the losers of the first qualifier and the winner from that game will face the winner of the first qualifier in the final. Organisers have kept a reserve day for the final.

There will be a rest day in between the two matches that will be played on the same day.

The players draft took place on November 12 and saw Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah Riyad -- the two Grade A players -- join forces for Gemcon Khulna. Mushfiqur Rahim will feature for Beximco Dhaka and the Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal will lead Fortune Barishal. Mustafizur Rahman, who was also in Grade A, will be playing for Gazi Group Chattogram.

The BCB took some time to announce the schedule of the tournament as they completed the health safety measures. All the five teams will check into the same hotel and be kept in a bio-secure bubble before undergoing coronavirus testing, expected to be held on November 19.