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The two teams have played each other five times on Zimbabwean soil, with the hosts winning on four occasions and with one Test drawn.
The Tigers are determined to rectify this situation when the first Test gets underway on April 17.
“How far we have improved as a team can be determined in Zimbabwe,” said Rahim.
“We are ready to take up the challenge. We don’t have a good record in Harare where we lost the Test match in 2011. It is our duty to change the record, by taking forward the consistency that we have found in Sri Lanka.”
The Tigers can certainly take some heart from their recently completed Test series with Sri Lanka which they lost 1-0. “We played according to a plan in Sri Lanka and that was the biggest achievement. We played consistently against such a major team in their backyard,” the skipper said earlier in the week.
“We achieved a lot from the Sri Lanka tour. We made our highest Test team total and broke individual scores, drew a Test for the first time against the islanders in Galle and also shared the one-day series.”
Meanwhile, The Bangladesh Cricket Board is expecting a positive response from their Indian counterparts on the much-discussed issue of the Tigers’ maiden tour of India within the next couple of months.
“We are expecting a positive response from our Indian counterparts regarding Bangladesh’s tour of India within the next couple of months,” said BCB’s acting CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury yesterday referring to BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon’s discussion with N.Srinivasan, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on the sidelines of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) executive committee meeting in Malaysia. — cricket365.com/DailyStar.
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