Tigers T-Twenty Squad For South Africa T-20 Series
The 14-member Bangladesh team announced the two-match series against host South Africa in front of T-20s, BCB said. Shakib Al Hasan will be the captain of the team.
Tigers changed the T20 squad to three, but the changes were inevitable. Mashrafe Bin Mortaza retired from T20 in Sri Lanka tour in March last year. So Bangladesh will have to play T-20 without the Narail Express on Proteas soil. Tamim Iqbal and Mostafizur Rahman's South Africa tour ended due to injuries.
Some old players have returned to the team to fill their place. In the top order, Tamim has been replaced by Mominul. He was dropped for the last T20 game against the West Indies in 2012 on the home ground. Nasir has returned after the last Twenty20 World Cup. Two years later, there was a place in T-Twenty again, after Lytton's place.
Four years later Shafiul Islam returned to the Twenty20 squad. He was part of the team against Zimbabwe last year 2013. Rubel Hossain has returned to the squad after one series. He did not appear in the Sri Lanka series even though he did a great job in New Zealand. The pace bowler, however, has been included in the squad for the first time.
Tamim Iqbal, the Bangladeshi opener, has finished in South Africa due to a hamstring injury. As a result, he will not be playing in the last one-day and Twenty20 series of the series. Confirming the inclusion of Tamim for the Twenty20 squad, Bangladesh team manager Minhajul Abedin Nannu confirmed the national selectors and South Africa's tour.
Mominul Haque did not go one-day international - the claim was that Bangladesh's head coach Hathru Singh Singh said. Under him there is now a place in T-Twenty place named Muminul as Test specialist. After five years, Mominul returned to this edition. Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, the then captain, is not normally in the team due to announcement of leaving T-20 cricket in Sri Lanka. Although he was requested to return to South Africa, the current captain Shakib Al Hasan and coach Hathruusingha Mostafizur Rahman was suddenly injured in the ODI series before the injury Then he joined Tamim Iqbal. Although he was injured in the Test series. Bangladesh does not get two best cricketers in T-20 And before the Australia series in the home field, Mosaddek Hossain is not in the side of the eye injury. Nurul Hasan Sohan, Sanjamul Islam and Shuvashish Roy are excluded.
Inclusion of left-handed batsman Mominul and paceman Shafiul to the surprise of the 14-member squad announced by Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday. Bangladesh-South Africa will be the first Twenty20 to be played on 26 October, in Bloemfontein. The second and final T20 match venue on 29 October. Moininul, who scored 77 runs in the Test series, did not get a chance in the first two ODIs. It is a matter of looking at whether he can get caught in limited-over cricket. Mashrafe has said beforehand that Mominul has done well in the Test, that experience will be useful in limited-over cricket.
Shakib and his team will play in the first T-20 series at the Maungayong Oval on October 26. After the second and last T20 on Oct. 29, the Tigers will end the tour of South Africa. Tiger pacer Mostafizur Rahman, who suffered a hamstring injury, will return home with captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza on October 23 after the one-day series in T20 series. Tamim Iqbal, another Tiger member who has been injured in the previous day (October 22), will return.
Bangladesh T-20 Squad For South Africa T-20 Series:
Shakib Al Hasan (Team Captain), Mominul Haque, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Mushfiqur Rahim, Sabbir Rahman, Mahmud Ullah Riyadh, Liton Das, Nasir Hossain, Mehdi Miraz, Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Saifuddin and Taskin Ahmed.