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- The 2021 Bangladeshi cricket season is taking place from 20 January to 31 December 2021. A total of 29 international matches, including 4 Test, 9 One Day International and 16 Twenty20 International matches are scheduled to take place in Bangladesh in 2021. 72 first-class, 5 List A and 54 Twenty20 matches are also being held in this season. All the international matches will form part of the 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship, 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship and the preparation for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Two international sides– West Indies and Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh, while four international sides– Australia, England, New Zealand and Pakistan are yet to come to Bangladesh in 2021. One second-tier international team– Ireland Wolves also toured Bangladesh in this season. Among the domestic tournaments, three first-class and one Twenty20 tournaments– 2020–21 National Cricket League, 2021 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League, 2021–22 National Cricket League and 2021–22 Bangladesh Cricket League are scheduled to take place in 2021. As of June 2021, Bangladesh has been most successful in ODIs in the 2021 season, having won 5 of its 6 matches. The team also played 2 Test matches in this season, having lost all of them. The West Indies won the most number of Test matches than any other team, winning 2 of its 2 matches. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continued into the 2021 Bangladeshi international calendar. In December 2020, one Test and three T20I matches of Bangladesh's home series against West Indies were dropped from the tour itinerary as per request made by Cricket West Indies to prevent any sort of health risks. During the Ireland Wolves' tour of Bangladesh in March 2021, the first unofficial ODI match was abandoned after 30 overs, after Ruhan Pretorius tested positive for COVID-19. However, Pretorius' test was later found to be a false positive, with him returning to the squad for the second match. The original tour schedule included two Twenty20 matches, but one was dropped from the itinerary on 13 March 2021. On 1 April 2021, the remaining matches in of the 22nd NCL were postponed due to the rising COVID-19 cases in the country. Originally, the 2021 DPL was scheduled to start on 6 May 2021. However, in April 2021, the tournament was postponed until 31 May 2021, due to the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. (en)
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