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Shakib out, three changes as Tigers bat

Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is dejected after being run out for a duck against Afghanistan during their Asia Cup Super Four clash at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Photo: AFP

Bangladesh suffered a major blow in their virtual Asia Cup semifinal against Pakistan as ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was ruled out of the match with a flare-up of his longstanding left little finger injury. Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza won the toss and chose to field first, with a total of three changes to the line-up.

His participation in the ongoing Asia Cup was in doubt until it was decided that he would possibly go for a surgery before the home series against Zimbabwe next month. Shakib went for a scan on his finger on Monday, which the team management called a routine check. But on the eve of the match, team manager Khaled Mahmud said that he was 50-50 for the match against Pakistan. Mominul Haque has come in in place of Shakib.

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This will be a do or die match for both teams, with the winners to take on India in the Asia Cup final in Dubai on Friday. 

Heat and injuries have forced Bangladesh to make changes in every match they have played. For this match the team management have benched the two rookies in left-arm spinner Nazmul Islam Apu and opener Nazmul Hossain Shanto, bringing in pacer Rubel Hossain and opener Soumya Sarkar in their place.  

Shanto made his debut last Thursday in the last Group B match against Afghanistan, replacing Tamim Iqbal who was ruled out of the tournament with a fractured left hand. He was given a run of three matches to prove himself but after scores of 7, 7, and 6 he has been dropped for this match. Soumya, flown in as emergency reinforcement on Saturday night along with fellow national discard Imrul Kayes, will play his first ODI since October 2017.

Apu made his debut in the last match against Afghanistan on Sunday and although he was much more successful than his namesake, bowling eight tight overs for 29 runs in Bangladesh's narrow three-run win, he makes way for the pace of Rubel. It is understood that Apu's selection in the last game was a horses-for-courses call, as the team wanted a left-arm spinner to bowl at Afghanistan's top order. With Pakistan being much more proficient players of spin, it was felt that Rubel would be a better option. 

Imrul was played in the first match, even though he landed in Dubai around 17 hours before the start of the match. The team took the unprecedented move of batting the left-handed Imrul -- who had not batted lower than number three in 70 previous matches -- at number six to counter the leg-spin threat of Afghanistan's Rashid Khan, and it worked a charm as he saved Bangladesh from 87 for five with a sixth-wicket stand of 128 with Mahmudullah Riyad. He is expected to continue in that position in today's match as Pakistan have leg-spinner Shadab Khan in their ranks.

Teams:

Bangladesh: Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mohammad Mithun, Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah Riyad, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (captain), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain

Pakistan: Sarfraz Ahmed, Shoaib Malik, Fakhar Zaman, Imam Ul Haq, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Junaid Khan, Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi

 

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Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was included in the Tigers' 16-member squad for the upcoming Test tour of Pakistan despite Bangladesh Cricket Board sources claiming that the 37-year-old's fitness for red-ball cricket would be taken into consideration before selection.

Shakib played in Bangladesh's last red-ball assignment in May when the Tigers hosted Sri Lanka for a two-match series and has featured in T20 cricket since then, including stints in the Major League Cricket in the USA, the Lanka Premier League in Sri Lanka, and a deep run in Canada's GT20.

Middle-order batter Shahadat Hossain Dipu was left out, while Mushfiqur Rahim and Taskin Ahmed returned to the side. 

The Tigers will leave for Lahore tomorrow and will train at the Gaddafi Stadium on August 14, 15, and 16 before the first Test begins on August 21. The second match will start on August 30.

SQUAD: Najmul Hossain Shanto (Captain), Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Zakir Hasan, Shadman Islam, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Nayeem Hasan, Nahid Rana, Shoriful Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Syed Khaled Ahmed

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Bangladesh star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan said he preferred to make short-term plans rather than long-term ones, considering that the 37-year-old is in the twilight of his career.  

Shakib left for the USA earlier today to take part in the upcoming season of Major League Cricket, starting on July 6. He will play for the Los Angeles Knight Riders and will then make the journey across the border to play for Bangla Tigers Mississauga in the Global T20 in Canada which will begin on July 25.

Following the back-to-back franchise tournaments, Shakib will be expected to return to national colours in August when Bangladesh will tour Pakistan for a two-match Test series.

"I haven't really planned much. And I don't really have that much time to plan for three-four years. I think that it is good to plan for three months, or six months. So up until now, my planning goes as far as the Pakistan series," Shakib told reporters at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport before leaving for the USA on Tuesday.

"I don't have a plan regarding myself. At this moment, I'm looking forward to the two T20 tournaments, one is Major League Cricket for which I'm heading to the USA followed by the Global T20 League in Canada. I'll play these back-to-back tournaments and then will see where things are. After that, there is the Test series against Pakistan. So, my planning is about these three competitions."

Shakib has been going through a lean patch with both bat and ball. While his batting has left a lot to be desired in the past two ICC events (the 2023 ODI World Cup and 2020 T20 World Cup), his ability to strike with the ball, which has rarely come into question throughout his career, has taken a nosedive. 

In an abysmal campaign in the recently concluded T20 World Cup, Shakib managed just 111 runs in seven matches at a strike-rate of 106.73. He did score a fifty against the Netherlands in their Super 8 run in the tournament but that was all that one would remember from his campaign. With the ball, he picked up three wickets at an economy rate of 7.50 and it was not until Bangladesh's fourth match of the group-stage against Nepal that the left-arm spinner was able to register his first wicket. He took two in the match and scalped one in a Super 8 fixture against India meaning he went wicketless in five matches in the major event. 

The interesting part about Shakib's statement was that he was not particularly keen on long-term plans and it won't be a surprise if he is picky when deciding which matches to play in the upcoming series. There have been a few instances in which Shakib has opted out of Tests in the recent past. Moreover, his sporadic absences have often left the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) struggling to explain the reasoning behind his unavailability. So, BCB would have a hard time planning ahead with Shakib in the mix but the loop of the board chasing the Bangladesh star for his availability may very well continue.

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Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been ruled out of the Asia Cup and is on his way back to Dhaka with a flare-up of his long-standing left little finger injury, team manager Khaled Mahmud informed today. According to Mahmud, Shakib boarded the 4:00pm flight to Dhaka, and will go to either Melbourne or New York for surgery. 

Shakib had earlier been ruled out of the Asia Cup Super Four match against Pakistan with a flare-up of his long-standing finger injury which he sustained during the tri-series final against Sri Lanka in January this year. 

"He will be out for four to six weeks," Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) cricket operations chairman Akram Khan told reporters during the match at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi today. "The pain had increased over the last few days and the physio [Thihan Chandramohan] tried his best to get him on the field, but the pain was too much.

"I would like to thank Shakib for playing [the first four matches] with the pain he had."

Akram informed that the surgery will keep him out of action for four to six weeks.  

Earlier, team manager Mahmud said that Shakib was finding it difficult to even grip the bat. 

He had gone for a scan on Monday, the day following the Bangladesh-s three-run win over Afghanistan, which the team management said was routine. However, while not revealing the contents of the scan, team manager Khaled Mahmud had said that Shakib was a 50-50 chance of playing the Pakistan game. 

His participation in the ongoing Asia Cup was in doubt until it was decided that he would possibly go for a surgery before the home series against Zimbabwe next month. He had said in the lead-up to the tournament that while there was not much problem bowling his left-arm spin, he was finding it difficult to bat.  

 

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Bangladesh have moved to fourth position on the World Test Championship (2023-25) table following their historic 2-0 series victory away in Pakistan on Monday. 

The Tigers started the two-match series in eighth position on the nine-team table and moved up two places following their 10-wicket win against Pakistan in the first Test in Rawalpindi. The win in the second Test, which the Tigers won by six wickets, moved them two places further up, leapfrogging England and South Africa.

The Najmul Hossain Shanto-led side are currently in fourth position with threw wins and three defeats from six matches, with a 45.83 percentage points.

India, Australia and New Zealand occupy the top three positions on the table.

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Bangladesh's ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan's abilities with the bat and ball are well known and while those attributes overshadow his abilities on the field, his sharpness on the field cannot be looked down upon. Having injured his little finger on the left hand during this year's tri-series final against Sri Lanka, Bangladesh's Test and T20 captain has been suffering and pulled out of the Asia Cup mid-way through the tournament. Currently recuperating from injury, he has returned to training and Bangladesh's fielding consultant Ryan Cook said that Shakib, despite still having issues with his finger, is showing great attitude while fielding.

Shakib was included in the squad for the first Test against West Indies, scheduled for November 22 and Bangladesh are training in preparation for the upcoming Tests. Shakib had previously started doing light batting sessions and today took catches on the field at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

"I didn't see any of the high catching, because I was doing the cover catching and he took the catches fine. And he's got a great attitude so it always helps that he goes for the ball all the time," said Ryan Cook indicating that Shakib is not being daunted by fear while fielding.

It is that kind of attitude that Tigers will require when they face tough challengers West Indies having dropped a couple of catches against Zimbabwe in the second Test at Dhaka. Cook hails from South Africa, who were the trend setters of excelling in the field. He admitted that Bangladesh still does not have someone to look up to as an idol in the field. But skipper Mashrafe Mortaza took an outstanding catch during the Asia Cup while Taijul Islam also took a breathtaking catch against Zimbabwe in the second Test. Those are instances of Bangladesh excelling in the field and Cook felt that the current crop of Bangladesh players will be the heroes that future cricketers from the country will look up to as their Jonty Rhodes and Hershcelle Gibbs.

"I have been very impressed with the Bangladesh attitude to fielding. The progress and improvement that the guys have made have been outstanding. So there is no real difference in attitude. The standards of the fielding – in South Africa we've got a lot of players one can aspire to: Jonty Rhodes and Herschelle Gibbs, whereas these players are the aspiring players, so we just need to get them better and better," Cook concluded.

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