WEB DESK: Bangladesh was originally scheduled to play three Twenty20 Internationals and two Test matches, but agreed to split the tour into three phases because it did not want to stay in Pakistan for a longer duration due to security concerns.
The side will return to Pakistan in April for a one-off One-day International and the second and final Test at the National Stadium in Karachi.
Pakistan won the T20 series 2-0 last month at Lahore, with the third game abandoned because of rain.
Bangladesh lost 3-0 to Pakistan in its last test series in 2003, which included the home teams nail biting one-wicket victory at Multan.
Leading Bangladesh player Mushfiqur Rahim, who didn’t travel to Pakistan for last month’s Twenty20 series, has also opted out of the Test match at Rawalpindi.
Bangladesh is the second Test country to tour Pakistan since the resumption of international cricket.
In December, Sri Lanka toured the country for 16 days and played Test matches at Rawalpindi and Karachi.
It was the first Test series in Pakistan in more than a decade after a 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team bus at Lahore killed eight people killed and injured several players.
Bangladesh squad: Mominul Haque (captain), Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah, Soumya Sarkar, Liton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mohammad Mithun, Nayeem Hasan, Saif Hassan, Taijul Islam, Abu Jayed, Al-Amin Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Ebadot Hossain.
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