India’s six-match white-ball cricket tour of Bangladesh will take place in September, the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced on Friday.
The series, comprising three one-day matches and three T20 matches, which was initially scheduled to be played in August 2025, was delayed after the boards of both countries “mutually agreed to postpone” the series.
India will now play three ODIs and three T20s between September 1 and 13.
Last year’s postponement came as political relations between India and neighboring Bangladesh turned frosty, after a mass uprising in Dhaka in 2024 toppled then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina fled to India, where she remained, straining relations between Dhaka and New Delhi.
Bangladesh has repeatedly requested Hasina’s extradition. She was sentenced to death in absentia in November for orchestrating a deadly crackdown against the uprising.
But New Delhi is also closely watching the upcoming elections on February 12, the first vote in this South Asian country of 170 million people since the uprising.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar visited Bangladesh on Wednesday to attend the funeral of former leader Khaleda Zia, the highest-ranking visit by an Indian official since Hasina’s overthrow.
Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is widely seen as an election favorite, and his son Tarique Rahman, who returned last month after 17 years in exile, is seen as a potential prime minister if he wins a majority.
Bangladesh will also host series against Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia and West Indies, across all three formats.
