Following Tamim Iqbal’s retirement as Bangladesh ODI captain, the BCB president appoints Shakib Al Hasan because the captain of the facet for the upcoming large occasions. He may even lead the group within the upcoming ODI collection towards New Zealand.

Shakib Named as Bangladesh’s Captain for Asia Cup 2023

Shakib Al Hasan has been appointed as Bangladesh’s Captain once more and can lead the group in Asia Cup 2023 and World Cup 2023. Shakib takes over the captaincy after Tamim Iqbal decides to step down as ODI captain after he was dominated out of the Asia Cup owing to a again harm.

Shakib will probably be taking on Bangladesh at a important time, with Asia Cup to start inside a month adopted by a house ODI collection towards New Zealand in September. Then, Bangladesh’s facet will journey to India for ODI World Cup on October 5.

Bangladesh Cricket Board president made this announcement in a media convention at his residence in Dhaka.

“Shakib Al Hasan is the captain for the Asia Cup, New Zealand collection, and World Cup,” he mentioned. “We are going to converse extra to him when he returns to Bangladesh [from Lanka Premier League]. Now we have to know his long-term plan. I spoke to him on the telephone yesterday.

However it’s higher if we speak to him in particular person since he’s busy with a franchise league at present. We may even discuss which format he’ll preserve main, whether or not it’s all three codecs or one or two of them.

“There was by no means any confusion. I instructed you earlier than. He’s the apparent selection. Who else can lead? However we needed to speak to him earlier than appointing him. No person ought to assume the rest. Shakib is the captain. He was all the time the primary selection.”

Hassan additional mentioned that the Asia Cup squad would be the identical because the World Cup squad. “They’ve only one spot open. We nonetheless don’t find out about Tamim Iqbal who’s recovering from a again harm. We would trial one or two openers within the Asia Cup,” he mentioned.

Shakib will probably be captaining all three codecs, having began his new journey as Check and T20I captain final yr.

Shakib had led Bangladesh in 49 ODI between 2009 and 2011 out of which he had received 22 matches. Shahib once more captained the group in three ODI matches in 2015 and 2017. Shakib had led a complete of 19 take a look at matches, 39 T20Is, and 52 ODIs as captain.

The management was modified because of the uncertainty of Tamim’s health restoration from a again harm.

He will probably be out for the Asia Cup which begins on August 30, Tamim hopes to be match for the ODI collection towards New Zealand which begins on September 21, and the ODI World Cup.

Tamim’s resignation as ODI captain comes after he reversed his emotional resolution to retire from worldwide cricket. He had retired on July 6 however Bangladesh Prime Sheikh Hasina intervened not to take action.