Dhaka
\nThe Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced a 16-member squad for the upcoming T20I series against United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan.
\nExperienced wicketkeeper batter Litton Das will lead Bangladesh in the upcoming tours as he has been formally named the T20I captain after Najmul Hossain Shanto relinquished the role earlier this year.
\nOff-spinner Mahedi Hasan will serve as Das\u2019s deputy on the UAE and Pakistan tours. Das had also represented Bangladesh in a three-match T20I against West Indies last year in December as Shanto was unavailable due to an injury. Overall, the 30-year-old has led Bangladesh in one Test, seven ODIs and four T20Is.
\nDas was recently a part of Karachi Kings\u2019 squad for the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) 10 but was ruled out of the marquee league after sustaining a finger injury while training.
\nMeanwhile, Shanto is one of the five players who returned to Bangladesh\u2019s T20I squad, accompanied by Towhid Hridoy, Tanvir Islam, Mustafizur Rahman and Shoriful Islam.
\nFor the unversed, Bangladesh will first tour UAE for two T20Is, scheduled to be played in Sharjah on May 17 and 19.
\nThe Tigers will then head to Pakistan, where they will play a five-match series from May 25 to June 3.
\nBangladesh squad for T20Is in UAE and Pakistan
\nLitton Das (c), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Mahedi Hasan (vice-capt), Tanvir Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Nahid Rana and Shoriful Islam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dhaka The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced a 16-member squad for the upcoming T20I series against United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan. Experienced wicketkeeper batter Litton Das will lead Bangladesh in the upcoming tours as he has been formally named the T20I captain after Najmul Hossain Shanto relinquished the role earlier this year. Off-spinner …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80585,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80572\/revisions\/80585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}