The Bangladesh Under-19 side will leave Dhaka early on Sunday morning for Durban to play in a seven-match Youth ODI series against South Africa from July 5. In April this year, Bangladesh beat South Africa 6-1 at home. This is a reciprocal series.

The captain Mehedi Hasan Miraz said the tour will help his team prepare well for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup at home.

"The series would mean we would be playing 14 matches against the Under-19 world champions," Miraz said. "It will be very good for our World Cup preparation. Since the start of June we have been practicing very hard for this South Africa tour. We understand the challenges of conditions and weather there and we have been given the best facilities to prepare properly. We have trained in bouncy pitches in BKSP and have even used a piece of stone so that we get used to the bounce there."

The visitors will first play a practice match at the Chatsworth Cricket Oval in Durban on July 2 before playing the first two matches of the Youth ODI series at Kingsmead. The next three matches are in Pietermaritzburg before the teams head back to Durban to play the last two games of the series.

Bangladesh will return home on July 21.

Bangladesh Under-19 squad Mehedi Hasan Miraz (capt), Joyraz Sheikh, Saif Hassan, Pinak Ghosh, Zakir Hasan, Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Mohammad Saifuddin, Shahanur Rahman, Abdul Halim, Mehedi Hasan Rana, Rifat Pradhan, Sanjit Saha, Saleh Ahmed, Shawon Gazi, Prosenjit Das, Mosabbek Hossain