The tour has been a nightmare for the Pakistanis so far, with a 3-0 whitewash in the one-day series being followed by their first-ever defeat to Bangladesh in a Twenty20 international.
Younis is only 506 runs away from overtaking Javed Miandad‘s tally of 8,832 runs as Pakistan’s leading Test scorer and holds the Pakistan record of 28 Test centuries.
Pakistan, who fielded a new-look side in the one-day series retaining just four of the squad who played in the World Cup, have selected nearly the same Test squad that beat Australia 2-0 and drew with New Zealand 1-1 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before the World Cup.
“Tests are entirely different and I am pretty confident my team will do better in this format,” said Aslam, who could make his Test debut after making a fluent 45 on his one-day debut last week.
A confident Bangladesh are looking to improve their underwhelming Test record, having won just seven and lost 70 of their 88 matches since being granted full status in 2000.
Of the seven wins, five came against fellow Test minnows Zimbabwe and two against an under-strength West Indies side in 2009.
Bangladesh have lost all eight Tests against Pakistan, but leading all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan hoped the confidence gained from the limited-overs wins would ensure a better showing.
“I think this will be a good series if we can show the same level of play and confidence,” Shakib told reporters in Khulna.
“If Pakistan have an experienced batting line-up, we too have a number of batsmen in form. And we have a better bowling attack and the fielding too is good. This will be a tight series.”
Wicket-keeper Mushfiqur Rahim returns to lead the Test side in place of limited-overs captain Mashrafe Mortaza. The second Test will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Dhaka from May 6 to 10.
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