The national selectors are passing a very busy time as they are weighing all of their options before they finalise the 15-member Bangladesh squad for the forthcoming cricket World Cup.
\nThe chief selector, Faruk Ahmed, told the media on Friday that they had already discussed player possibilities and would come up with the final squad before the ICC deadline of January 7.
\n\u2018We will announce our final squad by January 4\u20135,\u2019 Faruk told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.
\n\u2018Although we have just a week in hand, I hope that we will be able to announce the squad in time as the primary meeting in this regard has already been done.
\n\u2018Our next meeting will be held on January 1 or 2 when we will finalise the squad,\u2019 said Faruk.
\nFaruk stressed the need for four pace bowlers in the national squad for the World Cup considering the condition in Australia and New Zealand although he did not hesitate to express his disappointment about two seasoned campaigners.
\n\u2018Al-Amin Hossain and Rubel Hossain could not perform in the Dhaka Premier League games,\u2019 said Faruk
\n\u2018But Taskin Ahmed, Mashrafee bin Murtaza, Mohammad Shohid, Abul Hasan Raju have performed well.
\n\u2018We have four super league phase of the Premier Division Cricket League left. The players we are watching will get to play two more matches to prove their points before the final squad is set,\u2019 he said.
\nFaruk also said that they were giving importance to experience rather than youth for the big show. \u2018We have no scope to take any new player from the Dhaka Premier League,\u2019 Faruk added pointing to the Abahani Limited opener Liton Kumar Das, who has so far been the top scorer in the Dhaka Premier League, with 579 runs.
\n\u2018We have tried to give at least one match to players we have in our mind in the home series against Zimbabwe,\u2019 said Faruk hinting at Prime Bank CC batsman Soumya Sarkar.
\n\u2018In the final squad, there might be one or two boys, who have experiences of playinga few matches in international spectrum\u2019, Faruk added referring to Kalabagan Cricket Academy\u2019s Sabbir Rahman.<\/p>\n

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