The Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, also called Mirpur Stadium, is a cricket ground in Dhaka, the
capital of Bangladesh. Located 10 kilometres away from the city centre in Mirpur, the ground holds
approximately 25,000 people, and is named for the Bengali statesman A. Fazlul Huq, who was accorded the
title Sher-e-Bangla ("tiger of Bengal"). The ground was originally constructed for fo
otball in the late 1980s, and
first hosted matches at the 1987 Asian Club Championship. The venue was taken over by the Bangladesh
Cricket Board in 2004, replacing the Bangabandhu National Stadium as the home of both the men's and
women's national teams. The first international match at
the redeveloped ground was held in December 2006, and the stadium has since hosted matches of the 2011
World Cup, 2012 and 2014 Asia Cup, along with majority of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) matches. The
finals of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and Women's World Twenty20 were hosted at the stadium. The first
International T20 was hosted in this stadium on 11 October 2011, Bangladesh vs West Indies. Till 30 April
2015 the venue has hosted 19 T20I. The venue will be upgraded to a football stadium after completion of a 75,000 seat stadium in Purbachal,
Dhaka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher-e-Bangla_National_Cricket_Stadium
