I don't think there's anywhere to put news related the Bangladeshi domestic scene, A team tours, or general news, so here's a thread.
I can't find any evidence of it actually happening, but the BCB Facebook page has just released a Bangladesh A squad to tour the West Indies, presumably ahead of the full side's tour later this year:
I'm making assumptions regarding a few spellings, but that looks like a pretty strong A-team line-up by Bangladeshi standards. Ayub, Mominul, Nasir, Gazi, Naeem, Robiul are all relatively experienced these days, while Taijul is a left arm orthodox spinner coming off an 8-fer in the current Bangladesh Cricket League final. If he's actually any good in these matches, hopefully he can jump over the top of Abdur Razzak and commit the elbow-heavy dart merchant to the Test scrapheap. Also nice to see Elias Sunny (aka Mohammad Elias) is still in the thoughts of selectors.
They've also got the fast bowler Subashis Roy in there, who gives Chris Martin a run for his money in the batting stakes - he's got 83 runs in 47 innings at an average below 3, yet 33 of those runs came in one innings. 50 runs in 46 other attempts is impressively pathetic.
The omission of Shuvagata Hom from the squad seems strange though - Bangladesh aren't blessed with brilliant batsmen, yet he's averaging 40+ at FC level and can't get a crack. I thought he was always viewed as the next big hope, but the selectors seem to disagree.
Nasir captaining is gun; to be perfectly honest I was thinking he'd get the Test gig when Mushfiqr quit, only for Mushfiqr to un-quit. It's pretty much the only reason I'm making the thread, tbh, to be a massive fanboy about Nasir.
I can't find any evidence of it actually happening, but the BCB Facebook page has just released a Bangladesh A squad to tour the West Indies, presumably ahead of the full side's tour later this year:
Nasir Hossain (Captain), Naeem Islam (Vice Captain), Imrul Kayes, Shamsur Rahman, Muminul Hoque, Marshall Ayub, Abdul Majid, Mustafizur Rahman, Nurul Hasan, Shohag Gazi, Muktar Ali, Mohammad Elias, Robiul Islam, Shubhashis Roy, Taijul Islam
I'm making assumptions regarding a few spellings, but that looks like a pretty strong A-team line-up by Bangladeshi standards. Ayub, Mominul, Nasir, Gazi, Naeem, Robiul are all relatively experienced these days, while Taijul is a left arm orthodox spinner coming off an 8-fer in the current Bangladesh Cricket League final. If he's actually any good in these matches, hopefully he can jump over the top of Abdur Razzak and commit the elbow-heavy dart merchant to the Test scrapheap. Also nice to see Elias Sunny (aka Mohammad Elias) is still in the thoughts of selectors.
They've also got the fast bowler Subashis Roy in there, who gives Chris Martin a run for his money in the batting stakes - he's got 83 runs in 47 innings at an average below 3, yet 33 of those runs came in one innings. 50 runs in 46 other attempts is impressively pathetic.
The omission of Shuvagata Hom from the squad seems strange though - Bangladesh aren't blessed with brilliant batsmen, yet he's averaging 40+ at FC level and can't get a crack. I thought he was always viewed as the next big hope, but the selectors seem to disagree.
Nasir captaining is gun; to be perfectly honest I was thinking he'd get the Test gig when Mushfiqr quit, only for Mushfiqr to un-quit. It's pretty much the only reason I'm making the thread, tbh, to be a massive fanboy about Nasir.
