WI, Bangladesh set to resume rivalry in January

Cricket West Indies board director Dr Akshai Mansingh and the board’s security manager Paul Slowewill will visit Dhaka and Chittagong next week to assess bio-security plans for Windies' upcoming tour of Bangladesh.

If all goes well, Bangladesh will become the fourth country to host international cricket - after England, Australia and New Zealand - since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first country from Asia to do so.

It marks a resumption of the rivalry between the two teams, as West Indies returns to Bangladesh after two years. The 2018-19 tour was Windies' first full tour of Bangladesh since December, 2012.

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Jason Holder's men will be keen to avenge the 2-0 series defeat it suffered last time. One of the two defeats was an innings defeat, West Indies' first against Bangladesh.

The team was defeated in the ensuing One-Day International series as well, before triumphing in the T20Is.

Bangladesh registered a win the last time the two sides met in the international arena - a World Cup 2019 contest in Taunton, U.K.

During the upcoming tour, West Indies' second since its tour of England in August-September, 2020,  the teams scheduled to play three Tests, as many ODIs and two T20Is.

The team is currently on a tour of New Zealand, where it is scheduled to play three T20Is and two Test matches.