Mashrafe to lead cricket team in tri-nation cricket
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will lead Bangladesh cricket team in the Tri-Nation Cricket Tournament involving India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and in the test series against India at home in January next, reports UNB.
Shakib Al Hasan will be the Vice Captain of the national team in both the tri-nation and test series. Shakib was named as stand-in captain when captain Mashrafe suffered injury during the first test in West Indies tour in the middle of this year.
The decision was taken in the 13th meeting of the BCB Board of Directors Tuesday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur with BCB President AHM Mustafa Kamal, MP in the chair.
Under the leadership of Shakib, Bangladesh won the test series and ODI series against West Indies and Zimbabwe in July this year.
The meeting also renewed the contracts of 13 national team players up to Nov 30, 2010. The 13 players are Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Ashraful, Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Syed Rasel, Zunaed Siddique, Mehrab Hossain Jr., Raqibul Hassan, Mahmudullah and Enamul Haque Jr.
Indian Premier League Club Kolkata Knight Riders will visit Bangladesh from February 1-5 next year to play three exhibition T20 matches against BCB selections.
The BCB meeting also approved the management committee for the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy. The management committee will be headed by former Chairman BCB Game Development Committee Shakil Kasem.
The other members of the committee are Gazi Ashraf Hossain, ASM Raquibul Hasan, Mohammed Jalal Yunus, Selim Shahed, Jahangir Shah Badshah, Golam Mortaza and one representative from GP.
A selected team of the 26-member preliminary squad, now in the national camp, will play a day-night basis one-day match against Dhaka Premier Division League Champions Dhaka Mohammedan SC at the SBNCS on Saturday (Dec 26). Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will play in the practice match, subject to his fitness.
An eight-member committee has been formed for monitoring the development work and procurement related to the ICC CWC 2011.
The members are Mahbubul Anam, Dewan Shafiul Arefin, Gazi Ashraf Hossain, GS Hasan Chowdhury Tamim, Mohammad Jalal Yunus, Syed Zahid Hossain, Shafiqur Rahman and Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir.
Shakib Al Hasan will be the Vice Captain of the national team in both the tri-nation and test series. Shakib was named as stand-in captain when captain Mashrafe suffered injury during the first test in West Indies tour in the middle of this year.
The decision was taken in the 13th meeting of the BCB Board of Directors Tuesday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur with BCB President AHM Mustafa Kamal, MP in the chair.
Under the leadership of Shakib, Bangladesh won the test series and ODI series against West Indies and Zimbabwe in July this year.
The meeting also renewed the contracts of 13 national team players up to Nov 30, 2010. The 13 players are Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Ashraful, Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Syed Rasel, Zunaed Siddique, Mehrab Hossain Jr., Raqibul Hassan, Mahmudullah and Enamul Haque Jr.
Indian Premier League Club Kolkata Knight Riders will visit Bangladesh from February 1-5 next year to play three exhibition T20 matches against BCB selections.
The BCB meeting also approved the management committee for the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy. The management committee will be headed by former Chairman BCB Game Development Committee Shakil Kasem.
The other members of the committee are Gazi Ashraf Hossain, ASM Raquibul Hasan, Mohammed Jalal Yunus, Selim Shahed, Jahangir Shah Badshah, Golam Mortaza and one representative from GP.
A selected team of the 26-member preliminary squad, now in the national camp, will play a day-night basis one-day match against Dhaka Premier Division League Champions Dhaka Mohammedan SC at the SBNCS on Saturday (Dec 26). Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will play in the practice match, subject to his fitness.
An eight-member committee has been formed for monitoring the development work and procurement related to the ICC CWC 2011.
The members are Mahbubul Anam, Dewan Shafiul Arefin, Gazi Ashraf Hossain, GS Hasan Chowdhury Tamim, Mohammad Jalal Yunus, Syed Zahid Hossain, Shafiqur Rahman and Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir.