Pakistan team to tour Bangladesh for T20I series next month

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket team will tour Bangladesh next month for a three-match T20I series, starting from July 20, according to media reports.

The announcement came after the Bangladesh Cricket Team visited Pakistan for the T20 series, with Pakistan winning all three matches in the series.

The venue is yet to be finalized, however, the first match is set to be played on July 20, with the second and third matches to be played on July 22 and July 24, respectively.

Moreover, Pakistan will tour the West Indies after this tour for the T20I and One-day international matches set to start by July 31.

Earlier, Pakistan swept Bangladesh by 7 wickets. In the match played in Lahore, Pakistan won the toss and decided to field.

Bangladesh, batting first, scored 196 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

Chasing 197 runs, Sahibzada Farhan was out in the first over, but then Muhammad Haris added runs with Saim Ayub. Saim hit four sixes and scored 45 runs off 29 balls.

Then Hassan Nawaz came, and he also scored 26 runs off 13 balls. On the other hand, Muhammad Haris kept hitting sixes and fours and kept adding runs. Haris scored the first century of his career, becoming the first batsman to score a century in T20Is, apart from openers, for Pakistan.

Pakistan achieved the target in the eighteenth over for three wickets and completed a clean sweep in the three-match series. Muhammad Haris remained not out on 107 runs and Salman Agha on 15 runs.