KHULNA, Bangladesh, (CMC) – The Sagicor High Performance Centre team will meet the Bangladesh National Cricket Academy at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna tomorrow.

The four-day fixture is the first in a month long tour featuring two four-day matches, three One-day and two Twenty20 matches.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Friday announced a 13-man squad that includes Anamul Haque and Soumya Sarkar who were members of Bangladesh team that played in the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2012 in Australia
The visiting High Performance team, captained by 24 year old all-rounder Carlos Braithwaite, arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday after the first three months of training at the HPC headquarters in Barbados.
“It will be the first time I will be going there, playing in Asian sub-continent conditions”declared Yannic Cariah, a member of the touring HPC team.
“I will be looking to take all that I have learnt in the Sagicor HPC and all the preparation we have done and try to perform well,”.
Cariah, a leg-spinner and handy left-handed batsman, said the players have bonded well which he felt would serve them well on the tour.
“This is a family,” he said. “People from different countries, different backgrounds, and we have grown to know and understand each other. We are all getting along very well and we are all looking forward to doing well on the tour.”
West Indies High Performance team will meet Bangladesh ‘A’ Team in the 2nd four-day match from September 22-25 at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.
The visitors will play three one-day matches against the 2nd string Bangladesh side on Sept 28, 30 and Oct 2 at the National Cricket Academy ground in Dhaka.
“It will be a good chance for me to showcase my talent” said Cariah, a former West Indies Under-19 player at the 2010 ICC Youth World Cup.
“All the hard work over the last three months, it is for me to go out there and play well, clear my mind and do what I have got to do, and was born to do.”
The West Indies side will also play two T20 matches against Bangladesh A team on Oct 4 and 5, both at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.