Ninth-ranked Bangladesh faces South Africa, the number one ranked side in the ICC Test Team Rankings, in the first game of a two-Test series which starts in Chittagong on Tuesday July 21.

Tigers are going guns with a whitewash over Pakistan, followed by a series win against India, and now they've pulled one over South Africa in the 2nd ODI of the 3-match series at Mirpur on July 12, 2015.

Bangladesh cricket team continues to make headlines this year in ODI cricket with nine wins in fourteen matches, and gives ample reason why the 50-over format is their undeniable forte.

Bangladesh's troubles seem more tactical in nature, although captain Mashrafe Mortaza has said that their strategy of using eight batsmen was a confidence issue.

A fast-improving Bangladesh are confident of upsetting another of world cricket's powerhouses on home turf when they take on South Africa in a three-match ODI series starting on Friday.

Bangladesh and South Africa with little in common are meeting at crossroads, one side coming to an end of a successful period, the other beginning a long journey.

For a practice match, it was quite impressive how quickly the Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah filled up ahead of the clash between the BCB XI and South Africans yesterday.

BCB-XI skipper Imrul Kayes expressed his disappointment with the way his side batted against South Africans in the T20 practice match at Fatullah yesterday, as his charges scored just 99 before being bowled out.

During Mahendra Singh Dhoni's maiden press conference last month, he was asked if he had seen the way Bangladesh performed against Pakistan -- a series which ended a couple of weeks before India's arrival.

The ODI series may still be a week away, but the makeup of Bangladesh's T20I squad already suggests that the Tigers are likely to follow a different strategy, in comparison to the team that played versus India, against South Africa.

"I consider it a new debut for me."