Bangladesh’s practice match today

The preliminary squad of the Bangladesh National Team will play two practice matches with the BCB Academy team at the BCB Academy ground. The first match will take place on Saturday. The match will start at 9 am. The second encounter will be held at the same venue on Sunday. This time, a total of five pacers will play for the National Team. The selectors' panel will take three pacers among them for the Zimbabwe tour.
Meanwhile, the selectors for the Bangladesh National Cricket Team are thinking of taking another pacer along with Shafiul Islam and Rubel Hossain for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour as Shafiul Islam has just recovered from fever. They do not want to take any chances with only two pacers.
A member of the selection committee said, “It was almost confirmed that Shafiul Islam and Rubel Hossain would make room in the Zimbabwe bound squad. We are falling in trouble as we have to take another pacer now.”
“However, it is not a problem. We will select one more pacer on the basis of performance and experience,” he also said.
It is known that the selectors are thinking of selecting either Russel or Nazmul. They did not think much about Robiul as he has not enough experience than the other two. Robiul played just one Test match against England last year. But he did not show his mettle in the game. On the other hand, Russel has more experience than Nazmul as he played six more Test matches and 52 ODI matches. And from this point of view the possibility of  inclusion of left-arm pacer Syed Russel is more than Nazmul.
Meanwhile, Russel played in the minor county cricket and took ten wickets from four matches. From 2005, Russel did not get a chance to play for the National Team.
Bangladesh team will play one off Test match which starts on August 4. Then the Tigers will play five ODI matches.
Bangladesh Squad for Zimbabwe tour(23-member):Shakib Al Hasan (Captain), Tamim Iqbal (vice-captain), Imrul Kayes, Zunaed Siddique, Mohammad Ashraful, Roqibul Hassan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wicket-keeper), Mahmudullah, Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak, Shafiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Md Sohrawordi Shuvo, Nazmul Hossain, Shahriar Nafees, Alok Kopali, Syed Rasel, Jahurul Islam, Robiul Islam, Shuvogata Hom Chowdhury, Sahagir Hossain (wicket-keeper), Nasir Hossain, Mohammad Elias.

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