Bangladesh crackdown to boost bum Test squad

DHAKA: Bangladesh skeleton to moment down on players who use “pretexts” to equivocate personification domestic first-class cricket in an bid to boost a sad Test squad, an central pronounced Sunday.

Bangladesh have won only 10 out of 108 games given removing Test standing in 2000, losing 6 of their final seven, including a thrashing by a West Indies this month.

They unsuccessful to measure 200 runs in any of their final 6 innings and were bowled out for 43, their lowest-ever total, in a Caribbean in a initial Test.

According to Bangladesh Cricket Board officials, a vital reason for a predicament is players’ miss of seductiveness in personification Test and first-class cricket.

“We have got a long-standing process that a players will not be deliberate for a inhabitant group unless they play domestic first-class cricket. But whenever it comes to personification National Cricket League or other first-class matches a players uncover family reason or other pretexts to equivocate it,” pronounced BCB orator Jalal Yunus.

“So distant we have shown a soothing opinion towards it. But now we will follow a process strictly. Because we have beheld that a few players are not even meddlesome in personification Test cricket.”

Jalal’s comments came dual days after BCB boss Nazmul Hassan suggested that star players Shakib Al Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman and Rubel Hossain were demure to play Test cricket.

“He (Shakib) does not wish to play Test cricket. Mustafiz (Mustafizur Rahman) also does not wish to play Test cricket,” Hassan told reporters on Friday.

Hassan pronounced some players “don’t wish to play Test cricket since it is really tough to play”.—AFP

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