Preparation for U19 Girls World Cup
Bangladesh training camp from Feb 12
Sports Reporter, Dhaka
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) womens wing has decided to recall the preliminary squad of the Bangladesh girls U-19 cricket team for a month-long training camp ahead of their first overseas tour. The newly-formed girls team is scheduled to tour in neighbouring India in May.
Regarding the first bilateral series of the newly-formed outfit, Tawhid Mahmood, in-charge of the BCB-womens wing said they are in talks with India though the series is yet to finalise but the series will be held in India in May and that we proceed on it right way.
The residential camp is scheduled to kick-start at the beauty-scenic Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet from February 12.
This time the BCB-womens wing recalled a total of 40 players, who were picked by the BCB selectors from a national cricket tournament which was held in Mymensingh in January in the aftermath of the Bangabandhu-Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) for the 2019-2020 season.
The selected players have been asked by the board yet again to report to local coach Ruhul Amin at the BCB-National Cricket Academy of the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on February 10.
Henceforth, the players have to attend a medical test which will also be held in Mirpur on February 11 before traveling to the tea garden-girt city of the country.
Its learnt from the BCB sources that the board has given directive to its womens wing to make ready a team for an international tournament arranged by the board.
Bangladesh young girls will tour to neighbouring country, India for their first-ever bilateral series which is expected to take place in May this year.
With this tour the youth girls will formally launch their preparation for their maiden journey of the ICC U19 Girls World Cup, the extravaganza event which Bangladesh will host in 2021 set by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
BCB President Nazmul Hassan Papon earlier told that the world cricket apex body was giving urgency to its member countries for so long to prepare their respective young girls (U19) for an ICC big event because they want to launch World Cup for the U19 girls like the U19 Youth (Boys) World Cup.
In ICCs June meeting in 2019, the member countries unanimously decided they will work for forming U19 Girls teams to take part in the maiden edition of the ICC U-19 Girls World Cup.
They have also nominated Bangladesh as the hosts of the maiden edition of the ICC U19 Girls World Cup that slated to be held in 2021 but the fixture and schedule of the flagship event are yet to finalise.
Bangladesh will try to bring out the talented players through playing the bilateral and multilateral series and tournament for the good and well-balanced team ahead of their mega event for the young girls.
Coach Ruhul Amin said their first work is to nurse them all to pick talented girls from the preliminary squad so they can form a good team for the showpiece event of the new girls. Amin also said they will whittle down the squad on the course of the time step by step but they will first scrape 8-10 players from the primary squad and then make it 24 from 30-32 players.
This time we have sketched out a month-long camp in Sylhet where we will practice them and sometimes arrange practice matches to justify their application how much they have learned from the camp, said Ruhul Amin.
Weve a tour ahead. To form a final squad for the tour, weve to pick some players though we have plans to trim the preliminary squad. Firstly, well whittle down the squad to 30-32 from 40. Well therefore keep a 24-member squad who will practice round the year, Amin told The Independent.
