Bangladesh set to visit Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe are now set to play Bangladesh at the beginning of the 2005-06 season. The series, to include two Tests and three one-day internationals, falls outside of the ICC Future Tours programme.

The matches may either be squeezed in before the ODI triangular series with New Zealand and India, and the Test series with the New Zealanders, or may be played as soon as the two countries leave.

Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) is anxious to play the Bangladeshis again and prove that their Test and ODI series defeat in Bangladesh earlier this year was a result of the problems Zimbabwe cricket was facing, after 15 white players had left the team in protest of a "racial" selection policy, last year.

Sources in ZC said that the managing director Ozias Bvute and the Bangladesh Cricket Board have already agreed terms for an all-expenses.