Tigers get nine days to regather

The Bangladesh team are expected to land in Dhaka in the early hours of Saturday following their exit from the 2022 Asia Cup in the UAE.

The Tigers slumped to a two-wicket defeat in the do-or-die fixture against Sri Lanka on Thursday despite having put up a good fight with the bat.

Shakib Al Hasan's troops will now gear up for the upcoming T20 tri-nation series in New Zealand, which will serve as a crucial building block for the T20 World Cup in October.

The Tigers will hold a three-day camp in Mirpur, conducted by technical consultant Sridharan Sriram, from September 12.

"Most of the coaching staff will join the team in New Zealand. Sriram will arrive by 11th September. The camp will be for pace bowlers and batters. A few players will join [from outside the Asia Cup squad] and he will oversee them," cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus told the media yesterday.

"Since Sriram had to leave for the Asia Cup immediately after coming to Dhaka, he did not get the chance to get a good look at the players. He will look at players who were in the squad before, but are maybe not here with the squad now," he added.

The cut-off date for announcing the World Cup squad is September 15 and Jalal informed that the Tigers would submit theirs before then. The management is also keen to go to New Zealand earlier than initially planned, especially after a plan to conduct a camp in Australia before the tri-series in New Zealand was scratched.

"September 15th is the last date for providing the [World Cup] squad. We will give the squad before that. We had initially talked about going [to New Zealand] on September 30. We are now trying to go before then to acclimatise to the conditions. So we are eying the 24th or 25th. [Batting coach] Jamie Siddons will join the team there," Jalal said.

T20 skipper Shakib Al Hasan will not join the three-day camp in Mirpur from the September 12 although he is expected to arrive with the team. "Shakib will not be with the squad in the preparation camp," Jalal informed.

Shakib had already been handed an NOC to play in the CPL, which began on August 31. Shakib will join the Guyana Amazon Warriors this season as a replacement for South African left-arm wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi.

The Bangladesh T20 skipper is expected to join the team in New Zealand after playing the CPL.