Tigresses start workout for Bangladesh Games

The Tigresses embarked on the intense workout as a part of their preparation for the upcoming edition of the Bangladesh Games along with the home series against South Africa Emerging Cricket team.

Women’s wing of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) called up a total of 32 female cricketers from the national and emerging teams for the 13-day-long camp at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) ground of the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur.

The camp will continue till March 1 after which the cricketers will leave for Sylhet on March 2. After five days of preparation, they will start Bangladesh Games’ mission from March 6. The Games which has been named after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be finished on March 12.

The team for the Games has been formed by the cricketers from the national women’s team, its emerging contingent and under-19 team as well. They will play a total of four matches, including the final, in the Games which will be held as a single-league basis one-day format tournament.

The members of the women’s team have already reported at the Mirpur SBNCS which is considered the country’s ‘Home of Cricket’ on February 15 after which they were going through a fitness test though they started the main training with a skill session.

The curtain of the 9th version of the Bangabandhu-Bangladesh Games will begin on April 1. The curtain of the 10-day-long meet will be closed on April 10. But as the Bangladesh national women’s cricket team had a one-day series against the visiting South African emerging women’s team at that time, women’s cricket was brought forward in consultation with the Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA).

South Africa Emerging Women’s Cricket Team is scheduled to arrive here in Bangladesh on March 28 in a bid to play a five-match one-day series against host Bangladesh Women’s Cricket Team. All the matches of the series will be played at the picturesque Sylhet International Cricket Stadium (SICS).

The host Bangladesh and the visiting Proteas’ women’s cricket team will play the tour-opener at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on April 4.

The second match of the series will be decided on April 6, whilst the third and the fourth fixture of the series will be held on April 8 and 11 respectively.  

The tourists will finish their Bangladesh campaign with the fifth and final match of the series to be played on April 13. Each match will start at 9:30 am.