Fresh pacers throw hard challenges to veterans
Bangladesh’s new speed prodigy Shoriful Islam and Hasan Mahmud appeared to get a point to prove as they started their stint in national nets on the starting day of the preparation camp at the BCB interior on Sunday.
Tigers started their planning camp with a net session prior to the upcoming residence series against West Indies and it all looked to come to be the contest between pace bowlers and batsmen.
Shakib Al Hasan produced a good return in the countrywide practice jersey for the very first time since completing his suspension. Although he bowled a number of overs in the nets generally trying to provide flight, he never viewed convenience while he was batting.
Likely that was the only real reason he returned into the indoor to possess a long batting session before the bowling machine immediately after completing his batting at the nets where he was beaten by simply Hasan, who got him out once or twice with his sheer pace and variations.
Bangladesh head coach Russell Domingo was closely watching the bowling of Hasan and looked to be impressed with the way he handled himself against the seasoned campaigners.
Hasan looked to be in a furious disposition when he bowled against Mushfiqur Rahim and produced him glimpse vulnerable against the deliveries that he pitched up beyond your off-stump with vicious rate.
If Hasan was the main attraction at midway through the web session, Under-19 speed bowler Shoriful appeared to be determined to make the top buy struggled against his angling deliveries.
Najmul Hossain Shanto and ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal were at the acquiring end against Shoriful, who was among the highlights on the Bangabandhu T20 Cup.
Shoriful was seen bowling his heart and soul away against Tamim probably struggling to impress him the most considering he'll have the previous say when the group will be shortened for the ODI series.
Domingo and also other foreign coaches was first obtainable in the nets along with Sohel Islam, who exactly replaced Daniel Vettori for the series.
However, it was false for just two British passport holders Jon Lewis and Ottis Gibson, who are still isolating in the hotel.
According to the new legislation implemented by the government recently, passengers arriving from the United Kingdom should be institutionally quarantined for two weeks because a measure to contain the spread of the new variant of coronavirus.
On December 19, the World Health Organization said it had been in close connection with UK officials over a new Covid-19 virus.
“We have put on the government for them (instructors with British passports) and looking forward to their approval to ensure that they can join the preparation camp,” BCB leader Nizamuddin Chowdhury said about Sunday.
Bangladesh top-order batman Najmul Hossain expressed his excitement on the return to foreign cricket with the home series against West Indies.
“We are very fired up as we will be joining the countrywide camp after quite a while and we had an excellent practice session,” he said.
“We enjoyed the program as we are assembly each other after quite a while. Though we were together within the last tournament but sharing the national dressing room differs.
“We have practice games and if we are able to prosper in the practice video game, we expectation there won’t be any issue,” he added.
Bangladesh however suffered a good setback on the beginning evening of their preparation camp as uncapped Parvez Hossain Emon recurred an old damage and rested for weekly.
Bangladesh team will play two intra-squad practice video games about January 14 and 16 respectively even while West Indies will play one intrasquad practice video game in January 18 at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan.
BCB officials confirmed that mass media will never be allowed through the practice games.
