Sri Lanka to tour Bangladesh for two Tests in May

Colombo, March 31 (IANS) Sri Lanka will tour Bangladesh for a two-match Test series in May 2022, the national cricket board (SLC) announced on Thursday.The Test series will be part of the 2021-23 ICC Test Championship cycle.The Sri Lankan team will arrive in Bangladesh on May 8 and play a two-day warm-up match at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chattogram on May 11 and 12, ahead of the two-match Test series, which is set to begin on May 15 at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Cricket Stadium in Chattogram.The second Test will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka from May 23.The series originally was scheduled to be played during October-November 2020 but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Later, Sri Lanka visited Bangladesh in May 2021 but they only played a three-match ODl series.
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