On Wednesday, April 30, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) made an announcement that the Bangladesh cricket team will tour the country for a five-match T20I series in May as part of the ICC's Future Tour Programme (FTP).

The matches will be played in the cities of Faisalabad and Lahore from May 25 to June 3, with all of them set to begin at 8 PM local time since the summer will be peaking in the Indian subcontinent in the next month or so.

Notably, the Bangladesh tour of Pakistan was originally scheduled to have three ODIs and three T20Is next month, but the PCB and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), decided to turn it into a five-match T20I series instead.

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Bangladesh cricket team will make their way to Pakistan on May 21

The official statement from the PCB on the matter, read, 'The series, which is part of the Future Tour Programme (FTP), originally consisted of three ODIs and three T20Is. However, with the ICC Men's T20 World Cup scheduled for next year, both the boards have mutually agreed to replace the ODIs with two additional T20Is.'

As per the report published in Cricbuzz, the first two matches of the five-match T20I will be played at the Iqbal Cricket Stadium in Faisalabad on May 25 and 27. After that, Pakistan and Bangladesh cricket teams will travel to Lahore to compete in the final three T20Is on May 30, June 1 and 3 at the iconic Gaddafi Stadium, which recently hosted the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.

Moreover, the Bangladesh cricket team will make their way to Pakistan on May 21 before training for the next three days in Faisalabad for the T20I series opener.