Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will look to improve on their ICC One Day International (ODI) Rankings when they begin a three-match series from May 23 in Dhaka. Sri Lanka will depart for Bangladesh on May 16 and will play their Day/Night ODI matches on May 23, 25 and 28 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.
The series will also present both teams with the chance to move up the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League ladder.
Sri Lanka are currently placed 12th on the standings with -2 points and can climb as high as ninth if they win the series 3-0 while Bangladesh could skyrocket to the top of the ladder with a series win.
The Tigers currently sit sixth but only trail top-placed England by 10 points. A 2-1 series win would lift them to 50 points, 10 more than England, Pakistan and Australia, who all have 40 points. Sri Lanka will play an intra-squad practice match on May 21 before the series commences two days later. This will be Bangladesh's third ODI series within the ICC's World Cup Qualifying campaign. They are currently in sixth place, having beaten the West Indies 3-0 at home in January but lost to New Zealand 3-0 in March. Sri Lanka lost to the West Indies 3-0 last month and are now in 12th place.
The two teams played out their final World Test Championship series last week, which Sri Lanka won 1-0 after a 209-run win in Pallekele. Sri Lanka will become the second international team to arrive in Bangladesh since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The BCB successfully hosted the West Indies in January-February this year in a three-ODI and two-Test series in Dhaka and Chattogram.Bangladesh will be without their fast-bowling coach Ottis Gibson, with the team opting to use a local coach instead.
(Agencies)
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