Bangladesh National Team resume the practice on Saturday after a week-long holiday due to the Eid-ul-Fitr. All but five players – Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Nasir Hossain, Mahmudullah Ryad and Ashraful are expected to join the camp that is designed for the Twenty20 tournament in Trinidad and Tobago and ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup. The five players currently are engaged with Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL). Bowling coach Shane Jurgensen will be also absent as he was busy with Under-19 team in Australia. Under-19 team is expected to return to the country on Sunday.
Bangladesh’s spin bowling consultant Saqlain Mushtaq who spent the Eid holiday with Tablig-Jamat at Tangail returned to the city on Thursday night. Other coaching stuffs of the national team were in Dhaka during the Eid holiday.
The camp will end on August 29 and then the Bangladesh will leave the country on August 31 to play an invitational Twenty20 tournament in Trinidad as BCB XI commemorating Trinidad & Tobago’s 50th anniversary of independence. They will head to the Sri Lanka directly from the T&T to take part in the ICC World Twenty20.
The Bangladeshi players who are in SLPL now will join the side directly in Dubai on September 1 if any player plays the final in the league. After playing the T20 tournament in Trinidad, the Bangladesh team is scheduled to reach Colombo on September 12. Bangladesh will play two warm-up matches – against Zimbabwe on September 15 at the Colts Cricket ground in Colombo and against Ireland on September 17 at the Moors Cricket ground in Colombo ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup.
Bangladesh are drawn in Group D along with New Zealand and Pakistan.
Mushfiqur Rahim and company will take on New Zealand on September 21 before facing off Pakistan on September 25. Both matches will be played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium.
-With The Independent input
