1998–99 Bangladeshi cricket season

For the first time since independence in 1971, first-class cricket was played in Bangladesh in the 1998–99 season.

Bangladesh hosted the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy (known as the Wills International Cup) during October and November, although it being for Test nations only they could not play themselves but providing neutral venue. South Africa won the tournament.

During November, the West Indies A team visited and having played three List A matches against Bangladesh, starting on 12 November the two teams played the first-ever first-class match in Bangladesh (i.e., since independence). West Indies A won by 8 wickets.^[1]

The final of the 1998–99 Asian Test Championship was played at Dhaka in March 1999, Pakistan winning by an innings and 175 runs against Sri Lanka. Later that month, Bangladesh hosted Kenya and Zimbabwe for the List A Meril International Tournament, won convincingly by Zimbabwe.

Domestic cricket was still of minor standard because Bangladesh had not yet achieved ICC Full Member status until June 2000. The Dhaka Premier Division was again the main club-level tournament but there were two competitions organised on a national level which presaged the future National Cricket League being launched in November 1999.

References

^ Bangladesh v West Indies A 1998

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2016–17 2019–20 2021–22 2023
Australia	2005–06 2011 2017 ~~2020~~ 2021
England	2003–04 2009–10 2016–17 2022–23
India	2000–01 2004–05 2007 2009–10 2014 2015 2022–23
Ireland	2007–08 2022–23
Kenya	2005–06
New Zealand	2004–05 2008–09 2010–11 2013–14 ~~2020~~ 2021–22 2023–24
Pakistan	1998–99 2001–02 2011–12 2014–15 2021–22
Scotland	2006–07
South Africa	2003 2007–08 2015 2024–25
Sri Lanka	2005–06 2008–09 2013–14 2017–18 2021 2022 2023–24
West Indies	1999–2000 2002–03 2011–12 2012–13 2018–19 2020–21 2025
Zimbabwe	2001–02 2004–05 2006–07 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2014–15 2015–16 2018–19 2019–20 2024 2024–25

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	2011 2031
World Twenty20	2014
Asia Cup	1988 1998–99 2000 2012 2014 2016
Multiple teams	1983–84 1992 1994 1997 1998–99 1998–99 2003 2008 2009–10 2017–18 2019–20 2020

Other tours
Bahraini	2009–10
Danish	1989–90
English	1976–77 1978–79 1980–81 1994–95 1999–2000 1999–2000 2006–07 2011–12
Hong Kong	1983–84 1994–95
Indian	1985–86
Kenyan	1994–95
Multi-national	1999–2000
Pakistani	1979–80 1993–94
South African	2010
Sri Lankan	1977–78 1984–85 2005–06
United Arab Emirates	2005–06
West Indian	1998–99 2010 2023
Zimbabwean	1993–94 2003–04 2006–07 2014–15