Bangladesh U-19 cricket team will lock horns with their New Zealand counterparts in the first of five youth ODIs at Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln Sunday.
The match begins at 4am, Bangladesh standard time.
The remaining games will be held on October 2, 6, 9 and 13 at the same venue.
The junior Tigers will be confident heading into the series as they won their warm-up match against Canterbury XI by a convincing 146-run margin (Duckworth/Lewis/Stern method) at the same venue Friday.
Squads
Bangladesh: Akbar Ali (C), Towhid Hridoy, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Mohammad Parvez Hossain Emon, Shahadat Hossain, Rakibul Hasan, Asadullah Hill Galib, Shariful Islam, Mohammad Mrittunjoy Chowdhury Nipun, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Avishek Das, Shamim Hossain, Anik Sarkar and Hasan Murad
New Zealand: Ollie White (C), Adithya Ashok, William Clark, Kristian Clarke, Hayden Dickson, Ben Pomare, Joey Field, Jock McKenzie, Rhys Mariu, Tim Pringle, Jesse Tashkoff, Conor Ansell, David Hancock, Ryan Jackson, Fergus Lellman, Quinn Sunde, Devan Vishvaka and Thomas Zohrab