The Ireland cricket team arrived in Sylhet Sunday to play three ODIs and as many T20Is and a Test against the Tigers in different venues across the country.   The series is scheduled to take place from March 18 to 28. "They have won the majority of their series for several years. So, it will be challenging and testing (for us) as it is a long tour," Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie told the official website of Ireland cricket ahead of taking the flight to Bangladesh. The ODIs will be played at the Sylhet International Stadium; the T20Is will be held at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram. The Test match will be played at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on April 8. This Test match will mark Ireland's first such match of the format in Bangladesh. Before this series, Bangladesh had played Ireland in 10 ODIs, winning seven of them. They also faced Ireland in five T20Is, winning three matches. Schedule of Ireland's Bangladesh tour March 18: 1st ODI at Sylhet International Stadium March 20: 2nd ODI at Sylhet International Stadium March 22: 3rd ODI at Sylhet International Stadium March 25: 1st T20I at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium March 27: 2nd T20I at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium March 28: 3rd T20I at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium April 8:  Test at Shere Bangla National Stadium Ireland squad for ODIs   Andrew Balbirnie (Capt), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Fionn Hand, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, andBen White Ireland squad for T20Is Andrew Balbirnie (Capt), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Fionn Hand, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Barry McCarthy, Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, and Craig Young Ireland squad for Test Andrew Balbirnie (Capt), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Murray Commins, George Dockrell, Fionn Hand, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, James McCollum, PJ Moor, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, and Ben White

The mortal remains of prominent Bangladeshi-British writer and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury arrived in Dhaka on Saturday. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Gaffar Chowdhury's body from London, where he died of a cardiac arrest, reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11.05am, said additional SP of Airport Armed Police, Mohammad Ziaul Haque. His body will be kept at Central Shaheed Minar from 1pm to 3pm for the government to give a guard of honour and the people to pay their last tributes. His Namaz-e-Janaza will be held at Dhaka University Central Mosque at 3.30pm and then the mortal remains will be taken to Jatiya Press Club (JPC) for the journalists to pay homage at 4pm. READ: Gaffar Chowdhury to be laid to rest in Mirpur Saturday Gaffar Chowdhury will be buried at Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Mirpur at 5.30pm. Gaffar Chowdhury went to London in 1974 for his wife's treatment, thanks to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. On May 19, the veteran writer died of a cardiac arrest at a hospital in London. He was 88. The Bangladeshi-British community and other admirers paid their last respects to Gaffar Chowdhury -- best known for writing the lyrics of "Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano" -- following his first Namaz-e-Janaza held at London's Brick Lane mosque the next day.