Allrounder Shakib Al Hasan will lead Bangladesh at this 12 months’s World Cup in India after being named captain of their one-day worldwide squad.
Bangladesh wanted a brand new ODI captain after opener Tamim Iqbal stepped apart earlier this month citing a again harm, which might maintain him out of the Asia Cup starting in Multan on August 30.
“Shakib Al Hasan is the captain for the Asia Cup, New Zealand series and World Cup,” Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan informed reporters in Dhaka.
“He is the obvious choice. Who else can lead? But we had to talk to him before appointing him. Nobody should think anything else. Shakib is the captain. He was always the main choice.”
Shakib is now the Bangladesh captain in all three codecs and Hassan stated the BCB would ask the 36-year-old, as soon as he was again from the Lankan Premier League, if he was wonderful with the workload.
“We have to know his long-term plan. I spoke to him on the phone yesterday. But it is better if we talk to him in person since he is busy with a franchise league currently,” Hassan stated.
“We will also talk about which format he will keep leading, whether it is all three formats or one or two of them.”
After the Asia Cup, Bangladesh will play a house ODI collection towards New Zealand in September earlier than travelling to India for the ODI World Cup starting on October 5.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
