The New Zealand cricket team were scheduled to tour Bangladesh in August and September 2020 to play two

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matches. The Test series would have formed part of the inaugural

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. However, on 23 June 2020, the tour was postponed due to the

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. In July 2020, the

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(ICC) confirmed it was their priority to reschedule the matches, along with the five other World Test Championship series that had been postponed due to the pandemic.

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