To celebrate the Victory Day on December 16, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will arrange Victory Day Exhibition cricket match, keeping with the traditions of past years.
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium will host the match to be held in T20 format, starting from 10 AM, reports BSS.
The BCB announced the teams on Sunday. Former players were included in squads --Shaheed Jewel XI and Shaheed Mushtaque XI.
The traditional cricket match was first organised in 1972 in memory of the Liberation War martyrs Shaheed Abdul Halim Chowdhury Jewel and Shaheed Mushtaque Ahmed.
Shaheed Jewel XI: Shahriar Hossain Biddut, Javed Omar Belim Gullu, Minhajul
Abedin Nannu, Rajin Saleh, Shahriar Nafees, Anowar Hossain (wk), Abdur
Razzak, Mushfiqur Rahman Babu, Harun Ur Rashid Liton, Talha Jubair, Sanowar
Hossain, Syed Rasel, Anwar Hossain Monir and Enamul Haque Moni.
Shaheed Mushtaque XI: Hannan Sarkar, Nadif Chowdhury, Aminul Islam Bulbul, Khaled Mahmud Sujon, Habibul Bashar Sumon, Khaled Masud Pilot, Mohammad Rafique, Hasibul Hossain Shanto, Mohammad Ashraful, Jahangir Alam, Tushar Imran, Mahbubul Alam Robin, Sajidul Islam and Jamal Babu.
