The Dhaka Times Desk After a long time, the Bangladesh cricket team is again playing on the country's soil. Bangladesh's first ODI match against Zimbabwe today. The match will start at 2:30 PM.
Bangladesh is going to play a series for the first time without two important cricketers Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan. Bangladesh cricket team is taking on Zimbabwe in the first ODI of the series today (Sunday). The day and night match will start at 2:30 PM at Mirpur 2 Sherbangla Stadium.
Mashrafe wants to play the best as a team even without Shakib-Tamim. In this regard, Mashrafe told the media, 'After many days, we are going to play at home. That's why everyone is confident. Shakib Tamim will not be there, everyone already knows that. So that's how everyone prepared, did whatever it took to give the best performance.'
Earlier, Bangladesh had defeated Zimbabwe 41 times out of 69 encounters. Today is the 70th fight. Therefore, the Tigers will continue to try to increase their number of victories in the fight between the two teams. Zimbabwe has lost 7 consecutive matches to Pakistan-South Africa. Although they have a lot of experience playing in the conditions of Bangladesh. Mashrafe is therefore looking at his opponent and the challenge in the same way.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh team will play the 350th ODI match in world cricket today. Tigers will play today's series with a mission to prepare some more cricketers for the World Cup.
It is known that Fazle Rabbi may make his ODI debut for Bangladesh today. Bangladesh is determined to use his left-handed spin with batting. The rest will be played on the field to understand what is going to happen today.
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