KOLKATA (Kashmir English): India will tour Bangladesh in September for a six-match white-ball cricket series, Bangladesh’s Cricket Board has confirmed.
The three one-day and three T20 matches series, originally due to be played in August 2025, was delayed after boards of both countries “mutually agreed to defer” the tour.
India will now play three ODIs and three T20s between September 1 to 13.
Political tensions between India and Bangladesh
Political tensions between India and neighbouring Bangladesh caused the postponement last year, after a mass uprising in Dhaka in 2024 toppled then prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina fled to India, where she has remained, further straining relations between Dhaka and New Delhi.
Dhaka has repeatedly requested Hasina’s extradition. She was sentenced to death in absentia in November for orchestrating a deadly crackdown on the uprising.
The country is preparing for the general elections on February 12, the first vote in the South Asian nation of 170 million people since the uprising.
On Wednesday, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar visited Bangladesh to attend the funeral of former three-time Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, the most senior visit by an Indian official since the overthrow of Hasina.
Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is widely seen as a frontrunner in elections. Her son Tarique Rahman returned to the country last month after 17 years in exile, and is seen as a potential prime minister if it wins a majority.
Bangladesh will also host Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia and the West Indies, across all three formats in 2026.
