BCB reschedules Bangladesh-New Zealand series to conserve energy

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has brought the match timings ahead for the upcoming home series against New Zealand and the women's Sri Lanka series as part of a national effort to conserve fuel and electricity.

Under the revised schedule announced today (9 April), the One Day International (ODI) matches will begin at 11am local time, instead of the previously scheduled 3am. The Twenty20 International (T20I) games have been moved up to 2pm from their original 6pm start time.

By avoiding evening hours, the board aims to conclude the ODIs by 6:30pm and the T20Is by 5:10pm, significantly reducing the reliance on stadium floodlights.

BCB President Tamim Iqbal indicated yesterday (8 April) that daylight scheduling would be implemented to save energy, though the specific hours were formalised by the board the following day.

The New Zealand national team is scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh on 13 April for the white-ball tour.

The three-match ODI series will commence at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on 17 April, followed by the second match at the same venue on 20 April.

The teams will then travel to Chattogram, where the Bir Shreshtha Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium will host the final ODI on 23 April.

Chattogram will also stage the first two matches of the T20I series on 27 April and 29 April. Both squads will subsequently return to Dhaka for the third and final T20I on 2 May at Mirpur.

Along with these, the BCB confirmed that the match timings for the Sri Lanka women's team's upcoming three-match T20I tour of Bangladesh this month have also been adjusted.

Those fixtures, initially slated for 6pm starts, will now be played in the afternoon.