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BD A team to leave for Dublin Saturday
DHAKA, July 26, 2018 (BSS) – The Bangladesh A team will leave for Dublin,
Ireland on Saturday (July 28) morning to play five-match one-day series and
three-match T20 series against their Ireland counterpart.
Cricket Board on Monday announced that Bangladesh A team squad for the
tour of Ireland with Mominul Haque, Soumya Sarkar and Taskin Ahmed are
included in the squad that will take on Ireland A in a limited-overs series
starting on August 1.
The One-day series will be played in Wicklow from August 1-10, followed by
the three T20 games in Dublin on August 13, 15 and 17.
Mominul will lead the second string Bangladesh side in the five One-day
series while top order batsman Soumya Sarkar will captain the team for the
three T20 matches that follow the 50-over games.
Mominul recently featured in the two Tests against Windies in which he had
poor numbers. After a solitary run in both innings combined in North Sound,
Mominul ended the Test series with another duck and a score of 15 in the
Kingston Test.
Soumya, who has played only T20Is for Bangladesh in 2018, has also not been
in the best of forms. Following a half-century against Sri Lanka in February,
the left handed batsman Soumya crossed 20 only once in eight attempts.
Bangladesh A squad: Soumya Sarker (captain for T20 series and Vice Captain
for one-day series), Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Fazle Mahmud Rabbi, Mominul Haque
(captain for one-day series) , Afif Hossain Dhrubo, Syed Khaled Ahmed,
Shariful Islam, Al Amin (Jr.), Zakir Hasan, Nayeem Hasan, Sunzamul Islam,
Quazi Nurul Hasan Sohan, Shaif Uddin, Mizanur Rahman, Saif Hassan and Taskin
Ahmed.
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