BCB starts camp for ACC U-19 Cup
30 potential players selected for camp
Sports Reporter
The Game Development Committee of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has taken some effective steps keeping the multi-national tournament and bilateral series of their Under-19 cricket team in mind.
Of them, they have picked 30 potential players from the just concluded Under-18 Challenge series for the Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team with the help of their age-group selectors.
The committee called up Prantik Nawrose (BKSP), Sajid Hasan (Dhaka South), Tahsin (Barisal) and Pritom Kumar (Rajshahi) as openers, while Alvi Haque (Chittagong), Parvez Hossain Emon (BKSP), Mahmudul Hasan Joy (BKSP), Amit Hasan (Dhaka Metro), Shamim Patwary (BKSP), Fazle Rabbi (BKSP), Sajjad Shariar (BKSP), Sifat Sadik Khan (Dhaka South) and Abdullah Al Mamun (Rangpur) as middle-order batsmen.
They brought Mehedi Hasan (Khulna), Rakibul Hasan (Dhaka Metro), Rakibul Atik (Dhaka North), Minhazur Rahman (Dhaka South), Naim Hasan Sakib (Sylhet) and Mujakkir Hussain (Sylhet) as spinners, while Shahdat Hossain Dipu (Chittagong), Md Anamul Kabir (Khulna), Rishad Hossain (Rangpur), Mrittunjoy Chowdhury (Dhaka Metro), Avishek Das Aronno (Khulna), Tanzil Hossain Sakib (BKSP) as all-rounder and Ruyel Ahmed (Sylhet), Shoriful Islam (Rajshahi), Asadullah Hill Galib (Rangpur), Shahin Alam (BKSP) and Mehedi Hasan (Chittagong) as pacers.
The committee has arranged a three-week training camp for these new players at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP), the camp will start on May 15 following their reporting at BKSPs International Hotel on May 14.
In this regard, AEM Kawsar, senior national manager of the BCB Game Development Committee, told media that their local coach Mizanur Rahman Babul will supervise the youth Tigers before appointing a foreign head coach.
Weve given the responsibility to our local coach Mizanur Rahman Babul bhai. Its he who will look after the boys before the arrival of the head coach. The board will soon appoint a high-profile coach along with some coaching staffs for the youth Tigers, said Kawsar.
We had started processing to form a new buildup for the youth side because those who came from New Zealand playing the ICC Under-19 World Cup last few months back, the bulk of them meanwhile crossed the age limit. So, the board asked to its age-cricket selectors to pick the talented players for the next campaign of the U-19 cricket, Kawsar told this correspondent.
Players, who played against Afghanistan Under-17 cricket team in the Greater Noida in India, most of whom have been promoted to the new set-up of the U-19, he added.
Now they will join with the existing Under-19 teams players, who are yet to cross the age limit. Since then, they will begin their training camp in the middle of May. Some players of the old U-19 will join the new team later part of the training camp.
The youth Tigers will start their next mission with the 2018 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup, the Asian multi-national tournament, which is scheduled to take place in Bangladesh in between September and October.
A total of eight teams will take part in the all-Asian competition, starting on September 17 and will end on October 8. Coxs Bazar, Sylhet, Chittagong will host all the matches of the tourney.
Bangladeshi youth will then play a bilateral series against Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team, the series which will commence from October 14.
They will play two three-dayers along with five youth ODI series during the tour to Sri Lanka. Therefore, they will play against their English counterparts on home and away basis in February and March next year.
