Asia Cup 2023: Shakib Al Hasan Returns As ODI Captain, Rookie Opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim Called Up

12.08.2023 - 11:39 sports.ndtv.com

Bangladesh called up young opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim on Saturday to their 17-member squad for the Asia Cup one-day international tournament beginning later this month.

Left-handed Tamim was a member of the Bangladesh team that won the 2020 Under-19 World Cup in South Africa and has since been groomed as a new prospect by the Bangladesh Cricket Board.

The 22-year-old scored 179 runs in four matches of July's Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, with three half-centuries and a strike rate of 117. "Our national selection panel is very confident about Tanzid," chief selector Minhajul Abedin told reporters. "Hopefully, he is waiting to give the country something very good." Tamim takes the place of former captain Tamim Iqbal, who pulled out of the Asia Cup due to injury.

The Bangladeshi selectors also picked up lower-order batsman Shamim Hossain, who played 17 Twenty20 internationals for Bangladesh but has yet to make his ODI debut.

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