BCB reschedules BD-NZ series

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has advanced the match timings for the upcoming home series against New Zealand (NZ) and the Sri Lanka women’s team as part of a national effort to conserve fuel and electricity.

Under the revised schedule announced on Thursday, the One Day International (ODI) matches will begin at 11 a.m. local time, instead of the previously scheduled 3 p.m. The Twenty20 International (T20I) games have been moved up to 2 p.m. from their original 6 p.m. start time.

By avoiding evening hours, the board aims to conclude the ODIs by 6:30 p.m. and the T20Is by 5:10 p.m., significantly reducing the reliance on stadium floodlights.

BCB President Tamim Iqbal indicated on Wednesday that daylight scheduling would be implemented to save energy, though the specific hours were formalized by the board the following day.

The New Zealand national team is scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh on April 13 for the white-ball tour.

The three-match ODI series will commence at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on April 17, followed by the second match at the same venue on April 20.

The teams will then travel to Chattogram, where the Bir Shreshtha Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium will host the final ODI on April 23.

Chattogram will also stage the first two matches of the T20I series on April 27 and April 29.

Both squads will subsequently return to Dhaka for the third and final T20I on May 2 at Mirpur.

Along with these, the BCB confirmed that the match timings for the Sri Lanka women’s team’s upcoming three-match T20I tour of Bangladesh this month have also been adjusted.

Those fixtures, initially slated for 6 p.m. starts, will now be played in the afternoon.