The Bangladesh cricket team toured India to play three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) against the Afghanistan cricket team in Dehradun.
Afghanistan won the first two matches of the series, therefore giving them an unassailable lead. This gave them their first bilateral T20I series win against another Test team other than Zimbabwe. Afghanistan went on to win the series 3–0.
Background Originally the matches were scheduled to be played as One Day Internationals (ODIs), but the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) agreed to change the fixtures to T20Is in preparation for the 2020 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. In May 2018, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) confirmed that all three matches will be played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium. These were the first international cricket matches to be played at the venue.
Ahead of the T20Is, Bangladesh played a practice match against Afghanistan A.
Prior to this series, Afghanistan and Bangladesh had only played each other once before in a T20I, in the group stage of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 tournament, with Bangladesh winning by nine wickets.
Squads Asghar Stanikzai (c) Sharafuddin Ashraf Aftab Alam Usman Ghani Karim Janat Rashid Khan Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Darwish Rasooli Shafiqullah Mohammad Shahzad (wk) Samiullah Shinwari Najeeb Tarakai Mujeeb Ur Rahman Najibullah Zadran Shapoor Zadran Hazratullah Zazai Shakib Al Hasan (c) Litton Das Ariful Haque Abul Hasan Mehedi Hasan Abu Hider Mosaddek Hossain Rubel Hossain Tamim Iqbal Nazmul Islam Abu Jayed Mahmudullah Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) Mustafizur Rahman Sabbir Rahman Soumya Sarkar
Ahead of the series, Mustafizur Rahman was ruled out of Bangladesh's squad due to injury. Abul Hasan was named as his replacement. Hazratullah Zazai was added to Afghanistan's squad ahead of the first T20I.
Tour match Practice match:Afghanistan A vs Bangladesh
T20I Series 1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo