While Ireland had recently beat England and Sri Lanka, the hosts are winless this year and last played a 50-over match in March.
For the first time, BCB has been able to secure a deal for title sponsorship and ground rights for a home women’s series.
Thursday’s crunch game between West Indies and Bangladesh had a big impact on the qualification permutations at the Women’s T20 World Cup.
The momentum for women's cricket in Bangladesh would have had a far bigger boost had they been staging the event as planned.
The second match of the series will take place at the same venue on Friday.
The veteran fast bowler returned to the national setup after a year-long gap.
“We are always coming up with a plan but sometimes can’t execute in the middle and that’s the reason,” Bangladesh spin bowling coach Dinuka Hettiarachchi clarified why the Tigresses failed in this series.
The series will be contested at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium.
Bangladesh batters are finding scoring runs difficult in chase of a challenging 214-run target against Australia in the first of the three Women's One-Day Internationals at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.
Bangladesh lacked the ammunition in their batting as they failed to assail the challenging total posted by India in their Women's Asia Cup encounter at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday. The Tigresses suffered a heavy 59-run defeat.
Bangladesh are set to encounter Sri Lanka on their opening game of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup on February 12 next year in Capetown as the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the fixtures for the mega event today.
While the men’s team are eyeing to clinch their much-awaited Asia Cup title in the UAE, the Bangladesh national women’s cricket team started their training camp for the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier.
According to the first women's Future Tours Programme (FTP), announced by the ICC on Tuesday, Bangladesh’s journey in the third edition of the ICC Women's Championship will begin in December this year when the Tigresses tour New Zealand for three ODIs and as many T20s.