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The New Zealand cricket team arrived in Dhaka at 12:05 a.m on Tuesday [August 24] for a five-match T20 series against host Bangladesh, which begins on September 1.

The Kiwis will directly head to the team hotel where they will be in a three-day mandatory room quarantine.

Following the quarantine and a couple of Covid-19 tests, the visitors will be allowed to begin their first training at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

Earlier, two members of the Blackcaps, Finn Allen and Colin de Grandhomme have already arrived in Dhaka on August 20.

The first of the five-match T20 series will be held on September 1. The remaining four matches will be played on September 3, 5, 8 and 10 respectively.

All the matches will be staged at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur.