0
DHAKA, Oct 12: The New Zealand cricket team arrived on Tuesday on a four-week tour during which they will play two Tests and three ODIs. The first Test starts here on Oct 19 while the second will be held in the eastern port city of Chittagong from Oct 26.
Chittagong will also host the first one-dayer on Nov 2, which will be followed by day-night matches here on Nov 5 and 7. Bangladesh have so far lost 27 of 30 Tests since getting Test status in 2000. The remaining three matches ended in draws. They have also won just five of 95 one-dayers.
SQUADS:
NEW ZEALAND: Stephen Fleming (captain), Nathan Astle, Ian Butler, James Franklin, Hamish Marshall, Chris Martin, Brendan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Michael Papps, Mark Richardson, Scott Styris, Daniel Vettori, Paul Wiseman.
BANGLADESH CRICKET BOARD XI: Alok Kapali (captain), Mohammad Ashraful, Hannan Sarkar, Nafees Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, Jamaluddin Ahmed, Talha Jubair, Alamgir Kabir, Anwar Hossain Monir, Dhiman Ghosh, Shamsur Rahman, Nadif Chowdhury, Nasiruddin Faruque, Shahadat Hossain. -AFP
