BCB announces 30-man preliminary squad for ICC CWC’2015
Saturday, 6 December 2014
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Saturday announced a 30-member its preliminary squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 will take place in Australia and New Zealand in February and March. Bangladesh placed in Pool A with Afghanistan, Australia, England, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Scotland will start their World Cup campaign taking on Afghanistan on February 18 at Manuka Oval in Canberra. BCB national selection panel chairman Faruque Ahmed said the 30 men squad is an accurate reflection of the resources on hand, adding, “I believe we’ve picked the strongest 30s available to us at this moment.” Bangladesh preliminary squad: Mushfiqur Rahim, Mominul Hoque, Mahmud Ullah, Shamsur Rahman, Tamim Iqbal, Muktar Ali, Marshall Ayub, Rubel Hossain, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Nasir Hossain, Abul Hasan Raju, Mohammad Elias, Arafat Sunny, Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Mithun, Mashrafe bin Mortaza, Soumya Sarkar, Liton Kumar Das, Taijul Islam, Shafiul Islam, Shuvagata Hom, Abdur Razzak, Naeem Islam, Imrul Kayes, Jubair Hossain, Al-Amin Hossain and Mohammed Shahid, according to a news agency.