BCB XI to play practice match against WI today

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) XI will play a lone one-day practice match against visiting West Indies schedule to be held today (Thursday) at BKSP Cricket Ground 3, reports BSS.

Bangladesh one-day captain Masrafe Bin Mortaza will lead the BCB XI which also featured opening batsman Tamim Iqbal, who has not played since suffering a hand injury in the Asia Cup in September.

West Indies will be keen to bounce back after being whitewashed in the two-match Test series by Bangladesh. The ODI series gets underway from December 9 in Dhaka, which will also host the second game on December 11. The third match will be played in Sylhet on December 14.

Squads: BCB XI: Masrafe Bin Mortaza (captain), Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Soumya Sarker, Md Mithun, Tawhid Riday, Ariful Hoque, Akbar Ali, Rubel Hossain, Mithun Joy, Shahin Alam, Medidy Hasan Rana and Nazmul Islam Apu.