The West In­dies crick­et team is like­ly to tour Bangladesh as their first as­sign­ment for the new year. This ac­cord­ing to the vice-pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Dr Kishore Shal­low.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia Sports, the Vin­cent­ian said: "We are work­ing out some de­tails but there is the like­li­hood that the team will tour Bangladesh. The is­sue that has to be worked out is quar­an­tine for our play­ers. Once we get over that hur­dle then the team will tour Bangladesh."

It was re­port­ed pre­vi­ous­ly, ac­cord­ing to the Bangladesh Crick­et Board chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) Niza­mud­din Chowd­hury, that the re­gion­al team will need to take a coro­n­avirus test up­on ar­rival and once they are neg­a­tive for COVID-19, they will be able to start prac­tice ses­sions right away.

Shal­low added that the rea­son for the tour is for the play­ers to get in as much crick­et as they can.

He said, "As you know we don't make mon­ey when we tour but at least it's a sit­u­a­tion where the play­ers can get in more crick­et, which is im­por­tant."

Al­though con­ver­sa­tions are still on­go­ing, it is pro­posed that the West In­dies will meet Bangladesh in two Tests, three One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs), and three Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­als (T20I).

The West In­dies team is cur­rent­ly in New Zealand where their tour ends on De­cem­ber 15. The West In­dies A team is al­so on tour in New Zealand and there are two match­es be­fore the in­ter­na­tion­al match­es with the se­nior team be­gin.

A num­ber of play­ers in the in­ter­na­tion­al team will al­so fea­ture in the warm-ups. The first warm-up match got offs yes­ter­day Thurs­day (T&T time) with the Windies A play­ing New Zealand A. The sec­ond match is West In­dies A against New Zealand A from No­vem­ber 26-29.

The first T20 In­ter­na­tion­al will be played be­tween the West In­dies se­nior team and New Zealand on No­vem­ber 27 at Eden Park in Auck­land. The sec­ond and third T20s will be played at the Bay Oval in Mount Maun­ganui on No­vem­ber 29 and 30.

The first Test match gets off on De­cem­ber 3 and the sec­ond and fi­nal Test will be played from De­cem­ber 11-15.