Bangladesh and West Indies Open Two-Test Series in Mirpur
Bangladesh and West Indies begin the first Test of their series on Wednesday 28 October 2026, with the first ball due at 04:00 UK time. The match is at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka. No result has been reported yet.
A Test is the longest form of cricket, played over up to five days, with each side batting twice. This one is scheduled to run from 28 October to 1 November. Bangladesh Cricket Board lists the tour as West Indies' 2026 visit to Bangladesh, and the tour is made up of two Tests in total.
The match also counts in the World Test Championship, the International Cricket Council's (ICC) league of Test series. Results in that league feed into the race for a place in the championship final, so every win and draw carries weight beyond the five days in Mirpur. The ICC lists the fixture among the championship matches and provides the official scorecard.
Mirpur has a history of big totals. Bangladesh's highest Test score at home is 556, made against West Indies at the same ground in 2012, according to the Bangladesh board's own record of its 100th Test. That is a useful reminder of how much the ground can produce when a batting side settles in.
Team line-ups will be confirmed at the toss, the coin flip that decides which captain chooses to bat or field first. Until then, the selections and any late changes remain unconfirmed. Pitch behaviour also matters here. A surface that is fresh on day one often gets slower and more uneven as the match goes on, and that is when spin bowlers tend to come into their own.
For casual fans, the simplest way to follow it is the scorecard. It shows who batted, how many runs they scored, and how many wickets fell. Over five days, the story usually builds slowly, and a match that looks even after the first session can turn on a single morning.
The first ball is in the early hours in Britain and mid-morning in Dhaka. Whatever happens over the next five days, the opening Test of this series is set to shape how both teams approach the rest of the tour.
