|| CF Correspondent || 

Bangladesh will host a tri-nation involving Afghanistan and Zimbabwe from September 13-24, announced Bangladesh Cricket Board on Wednesday.

The tri-nation will start following the lone Test match against Afghanistan, scheduled from 5-9 at Chittagong .

Zimbabwe, who was recently suspended by the International Cricket Council, will be making their first appearance in international cricket since the sanction was imposed on July18.

BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that they will not have any problem as far as status of the game is concerned since they are suspended by the governing body of the cricket.

‘’As per the ICC FTP schedule, we had Afghanistan touring Bangladesh for a Test match and ODI or T20 match. We decided to make that a triangular series as per the request of the Zimbabwean cricket board in the last ICC scheduling meeting,’’ said Nizamuddin.

‘’There is no problem with the match status [involving Zimbabwe]. They cannot take part in ICC competition and ICC is following those things as there were some implications of ICC on their financial status,’’ he said.

 ‘’As per their ban on the cricket board there was confusion about their participation but the Zimbabwe cricket board requested to give them some time as they wanted to sort out the matter,’’ he said. Host Bangladesh will play against in the tri-nation opener at Dhaka on September 13 while Afghanistan will open their account in the shortest format by locking horns against Zimbabwe on the following day. Bangladesh will take on Afghanistan at Dhaka on September 15 and later the team will move to Chittagong to play the next three matches of the league phase respectively on September 18,20 and 21.

The final will be played at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on September 24.

There is a speculation that an ODI series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe might take place after the tri-nation as BCB is hoping to give a farewell to their ODI skipper Mashrafee bin Mortaza.