Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday dropped Mashrafe Bin Mortaza from the preliminary squad for the forthcoming three-match one-day international series against West Indies.
BCB on Monday announced a 24-man preliminary squad for the ODI series and a 20-member preliminary squad for the two-Test series against the Caribbean side, which is scheduled to begin on January 20 with the fifty-over matches.
Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, who quit as the ODI captain last year but was yet to retire from the format, was left out from the ODI squad.
A number of fresh faces like Hasan Mahmud, Parvez Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Nasum Ahmed and Yasir Ali, who performed well in the two new limited-over domestic competitions last year, got called up in the preliminary ODI squad.
Opener Shadman Islam got picked in the preliminary Test squad after prolonged injury.
Test skipper Mominul Haque, off-spinner Nayeem Islam and pacer Abu Jayed are yet to fully recover from their respective injuries but have been picked in the Test squad.
Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who has been out of international cricket since the Afghanistan Test in September 2019, has been included in both squads.
Preliminary ODI squad: Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Nazmul Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mohammad Mithun, Liton Das, Mahmudullah, Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Soumya Sarkar, Yasir Ali, Naim Sheikh, Taskin Ahmed, Al-Amin Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Mehedi Hasan, Taijil Islam, Nasum Ahmed, Pervez Hossain, Mahadi Hasan, Rubel Hossain.
Preliminary Test squad: Mominul Haque, Tamim Iqbal , Shakib Al Hasan, Nazmul Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim , Mohmmad Mithun, Liton Das, Yasir Ali, Saif Hasan, Abu Jayed Chowdhury, Taskin Ahmed, Khaled Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Mustafizur Rahman, Mehedi Hasan , Taijul Islam, Nurul Hasan, Shadman Islam, Nayeem Hasan, Ebadot Hossain
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