Left-arm spinner Rakibul Hasan has been selected as the captain of the Bangladesh U19 group for the forthcoming U19 World Cup in the West Indies. The Bangladesh Cricket Board set forth the choice on Tuesday, December 7.
The 19-year-old is additionally set to lead the lesser Tigers in the forthcoming version of the U19 Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. In the wake of participating in the competition, Bangladesh will travel to the Caribbean Islands to play in the World Cup.
“We have picked Rakibul Hasan as he is the senior most player of the group and can deal with the young men well in the field,” Sazzad Ahmed, the BCB game advancement boss selector, was cited as saying in Cricbuzz on Tuesday.
Rakibul Hasan was a pivotal individual from the Bangladesh group that won the World Cup in 2020 under the administration of Akbar Ali. The tweaker was the champion bowler for his side, having gotten 12 wickets from six games at a mind boggling economy pace of 3.05.
Rakibul has additionally participated in five top notch, eight List An and 18 T20 matches, getting an aggregate of 40 wickets. Last year, he was likewise a piece of the Gazi Group Chattogram group in the debut release of the Bangabandhu T20 Cup. There, he carried out his specialty under the authority of Mohammad Mithun.
Bangladesh crew:
Rakibul Hasan (C), Prantik Nawrose Nabil (VC), Mahfijul Islam, Iftakhar Hossain Ifti, SM Meherob Hasan, Aich Mollah, Abdulla Al Mamun, Gazi Mohammad Tahjibul Islam, Ariful Islam, Md Fahim, Mohammad Musfik Hasan, Ripon Mondol, Md Ashiqur Zaman, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Naimur Rohman Noyon
Bangladesh U19 have had a good run of late as they won the three-sided series, additionally including India U19 An and India U19 B, on Tuesday. In the last on Tuesday, they crushed India U19 B by 181 runs at the notable Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
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Rakibul Hasan said that the success will support the certainty of the group after the series misfortunes because of Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. “I think at this point we have perceived the jobs of explicit players in the group and going ahead it will assist us with playing out a unit,” the central selector added