| Pakistan invited Bangladesh for a five match ODI | | | | innings but collapsed to 154 in the second. Pakistan |
| series following Australia's pullout of their scheduled | | | | struggled spectacularly in their second innings and |
| tour in March and April due to security concerns. The | | | | reached the 262 target with one wicket in hand and |
| series begins with the first ODI in Lahore on April 8. | | | | owed everything to Inzamam's unbeaten 138. |
| Pakistan got a very long cricketing history. There | | | | Bangladesh stayed on for an ODI series and lost 5-0. |
| were many great cricket players like Wasim Akram, | | | | The margins of victory were comprehensive, bar the |
| Imran Kahn, Javed Minandad, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Waqar | | | | fourth ODI when Bangladesh pushed Pakistan to the |
| Younis, Moin Khan, Saleem Malik to name a few that | | | | wire. |
| made Pakistan a cricketing powerhouse. They even | | | | Series schedule |
| won the ICC World Cup back in 1992 beating England | | | | The current Bangladesh tour of Pakistan is a relatively |
| by 22 runs in the final. Even though they not as | | | | short tour without any test matches. The tour |
| strong as they once were, they should not be | | | | consists of five ODI matches and a Twenty20 |
| underestimated. | | | | match. The matches will be played from 8th to 20th |
| Comparing to Pakistan, Bangladesh is relatively new | | | | April 2008. Here is the schedule of the series. |
| to cricket world. Even though they got some good | | | | 1st ODI - 8th April 2008 at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore |
| cricketers, they are still regarded as minors. Their last | | | | 2nd ODI - 11th April 2008 at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad |
| cricket series with South Africa was a complete | | | | 3rd ODI - 13th April 2008 at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore |
| disaster as they lost all the Test and ODI matches. | | | | 4th ODI - 16th April 2008 at Multan Cricket Stadium |
| But they won the series with Ireland 3-0. | | | | 5th ODI - 19th April 2008 at National Stadium, Karachi |
| A brief history | | | | Twenty20 - 20th April 2008 at National Stadium, |
| Pakistan's first full cricket tour of Bangladesh was in | | | | Karachi |
| 2002 where they played 2 test and 3 ODI matches. | | | | The Pakistan team |
| The tour ended in a whitewash of the hosts, both in | | | | Umar Gul, who travelled to Australia for a medical |
| the Tests and ODIs. The first test match ended | | | | check-up on a longstanding back problem that |
| within three days as Pakistan won the match by an | | | | prevented him from taking any part in the Test |
| innings and 78 runs. Waqar Younis and Danish Kaneria | | | | series against India last year and Rao Iftikhar Anjum, |
| were the stars as they shared 13 wickets between | | | | who had a poor series against Zimbabwe have been |
| them. Bangladesh didn't fare much better in the | | | | recalled for the first two one-day internationals |
| second test. They crashed to an innings and 169 run | | | | against Bangladesh. Shoaib Akhtar is out of the the |
| defeat. For Pakistan, Yousuf Youhana had an | | | | series as he is banned for 5 years. Pakistan team - |
| unbeaten 204 to his name and Younis Khan 119. The | | | | Shoaib Malik (capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, |
| three match ODI series was no exception. Pakistan | | | | Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, |
| dominated in all three ODIs and won the series 3-0. | | | | Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Umar Gul, Sohail |
| Pakistan hosted Bangladesh for a return series in the | | | | Tanvir, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Sohail Khan, Wahab Riaz, |
| second half of 2003 and the result was the same. | | | | Fawad Alam, Bazid Khan, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk). |
| They played 3 test and 5 ODI matches where | | | | The Bangladesh team |
| Pakistan won all of them. The highlight was the third | | | | Bangladesh got a very young team. Their oldest |
| test at Multan. That was a thriller. Bangladesh bowled | | | | player, Abdur Razzak is 25 years old and their |
| extremely well to gain a 106-run lead in the first | | | | youngest, Tamim Iqbal is just 19 years. |