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T20 World Cup 2021: Rubel Hossain added to Bangladesh squad

Star pacer Rubel Hossain has been included in the Bangladesh squad for the World Twenty20. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed this on Saturday night.

Bangladesh’s World Cup squad was announced on September 9. Rubel was a standby cricketer in that squad. He was included in the main team just before the start of the World Cup.
In a statement, the BCB said the BCB’s national team selection panel had confirmed Rubel Hossain’s inclusion in the World Cup squad on Saturday. Rubel traveled to Oman with the team as a stand-by cricketer and will now be considered a member of the squad.

This means that no player from the originally announced 15-man squad has been dropped.

Rubel Hossain has featured in 28 T20Is for Bangladesh and picked up 28 wickets; he has been on the expensive side, leaking at 9.45 runs per over. He has also played 27 Tests and 104 ODIs and his experience will come in great help for the team. All-rounder Mahmudullah will lead Bangladesh at the 2021 T20 World Cup.
Bangladesh will leave for Abu Dhabi on Sunday to play two warm-up matches against Sri Lanka and Ireland before returning back to Oman on 15 October for ‘Round 1’ of the T20 World Cup.

Bangladesh had earlier failed to qualify directly for the tournament and hence will have to play the qualifying ‘Round 1’ where they are clubbed with Scotland, Papua New Guinea and Oman. The top two teams from the two Qualifying groups will proceed through to the Super 12 stage. Bangladesh are coming off home series wins over Australia and New Zealand.

A Bangladesh XI team played a practice match against Oman A and won by 60 runs. Liton Das and Mohammad Naim recorded fifties while Shoriful Islam returned with a three-wicket haul.
Bangladesh T20 World Cup Squad:

Mahmudullah (capt), Mohammad Naim, Soumya Sarkar, Liton Das (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Nurul Hasan, Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Mohammad Saifuddin, Shamim Hossain, Rubel Hossain
Reserves: Aminul Islam

 

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