With a mission to pul on a belter performance than their first trip six years back, Bangladesh cricket team leaves Dhaka today for their demanding tour of New Zeal and.

During their 34-day tour down under, Tigers will play three one-day internationals and two Tests besides three limited-overs warmup games and a charity T\venty20 match for the cyclone Sidr victims.

Only the one-day players will board the flight as the national selectors picked a 15-mcmbcr squad first and arc expected to announce the Test side after the second one-day match to be held at McLean Park in Napier on December 28.

Only Javed Omar, Mohammad Ashraful, Tushar Imran and Mashrafe Bin Mortaza have survived from the last visit in 2001 where the then newcomers to die elite club suffered innings defeat in both Tests.1

Last time there was only two Tests but this time Ashraful's men are to play a full series as it includes the one-day matches. Except the brilliant two-wicket success in a World Cup build-up game in West Indies, Tigers' previous experience with the Kiwis has not been a pleasant one as they suffered innings defeats in all four Tests and badly lost eight one-day internationals so far.

It would be a testing time for new coach Jamie Siddons, the former assistant coach of Australia, to start his journey.

Bangladesh will launch their campaign with a warm-up one-day game against Northern Districts at Seddon Parkin Hamilton on December 16 and take on the same opponents on December 18 at the same venue.

The third warm-up game is scheduled on December 21 against Auckland at the Eden Park Outer Oval in Auckland.

Before the start of the one-day series on December 26 at Eden Park in Auckland, Tigers will play a Twenty20 game on December 23 at Seddon Park in Hamilton.

The third one-day will take place on December 31 at the Queenstown Events Centre.

The first Test will start from January 4 at the University Oval in Dunedin and the second Test is scheduled to begin from January 12 at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.