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Australia women team have eyes on their first bilateral tour of Bangladesh as a valuable intelligence-gathering tour ahead of the T20 World Cup later in the year.

The Aussies will face South Africa in a multi-format series starting at home in late January, with those T20Is also providing valuable preparation for the World Cup in September.

However, it's the first-hand experience over in Bangladesh that could be especially important.

The ODI and T20I tour will take place at the end of March following the WPL (Women Premier League).

"We've got a couple of venues in Bangladesh that the World Cup will be played at so that will be part of the investigating during the tour, about how wickets are going to play," Shawn Flegler, the national selector, said.

Australia's only previous trip to Bangladesh was when they won the 2014 T20 World Cup.