Bangladesh, who lead the series 4-0, will be keen to clean sweep Zimbabwe when they take on the visitors in their fifth and final Twenty20 international at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today.
The match will begin at 10:00am and T Sports and GTV will telecast the game live from the country鈥檚 home of cricket.
Bangladesh previously had the opportunity to play a five-match T20I series at home against Trans-Tasman nations Australia and New Zealand in 2021, with the home team winning 4-1 and 3-2, respectively.
However, they have never completed a clean sweep in a five-match series, as they are about to do against Zimbabwe.
If they do so, this will be the third time that the Tigers will achieve a clean sweep over the Zimbabweans in the shortest format of the game, with the first one coming in the one-off match series in 2006 and the second one coming when the Tigers beat them 2-1 in the three-match series at their den in 2022.
Earlier, in 2013 and 2015, the two-match T20I series between the two teams ended 1-1 on both occasions.
While a 5-0 clean sweep will be an ideal result given Zimbabwe鈥檚 performance this time in the series, the Tigers still need to iron out the wrinkles.
Amongst the batters, openers Tanzid Hasan Tamim and Towhid Hridoy showed some consistency, but what would bother Bangladesh most was that the whole batting line-up failed to gel throughout the series.
When the openers got a good start, the middle order usually failed to cash in on it. When the middle order fired, the late middle order sank the team.
As a whole, consistency in the batting line-up is now a big issue that must be fixed ahead of next month鈥檚 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies.
The loss of all 10 wickets for 42 runs in the fourth match gave the Tigers another headache. The SBNS wicket was not typically slow, and openers Tanzid and Soumya Sarkar put on a 101-run partnership to justify it.
However, injudicious shots led to the Tigers鈥� downfall, even though they won the match by five runs courtesy of some fine bowling.
While the bowling fires as it has in the last two years, the batting still remains a concern.
Most of the batters, including the captain, Najmul Hossain Shanto, are yet to click with batting, which is considered an ominous sign with the World Cup being away for less than a month.