The Bangladesh cricket team will prepare most of the upcoming T20 World Cup with a five-match T20 series against the African country Zimbabwe. Bangladesh announced a 15-member squad for this series on Sunday (April 28).

Most of the players in this 15-man squad are sort of auto-choices, barring a few surprises. If we have to talk about surprise, Saifuddin's return to the team after a year and a half and opener Tanjid Tamim's call to the T20 team for the first time. Along with this, Parvez Imon, who performed well in this year's DPL, is back in the Tiger team.

3 Openers Liton Das, Tanjid Tamim and Parvez Imon. Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Tawhid Hriday, Mahmudullah Riyad, Afif Hossain Dhrub and Zaker Ali Anik are the middle order. The presence of these two batsmen in the opening has somewhat surprised the cricket fans of the country. However, Bangladesh national team selector Hannan Sarkar has tried to explain the matter.

The former opener, who served as a national team selector for the first time, said, "Tanjid Tamim is very promising and has the ability to play the type of game that is played in T20 cricket. From there we added him.

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Also, another left-handed opener, Parvez Imon, is the reason for the team's selection, Hannan said, 'Imon has played only one T20 international. Apart from this he does not have much experience of playing international cricket. We have also added Eamon to the team mainly to gain experience.

Also, regarding the reason why Soumya was not included in Sarkar's team despite being in the 17-team preparation camp squad, he said, "Soumya was not included in the team for the first three matches due to injury. After receiving further instructions from the medical team, we will understand his condition.

In addition to this, Hannan Sarkar explained that Mohammad Saifuddin was included in the team after 18 months on behalf of the selection committee. "If you look at the squad, you will see 3 openers and 5 middle-order batsmen," explains the selector. In total there are 8 batters and 3 spinners in the team. At Spin we tried to keep variety. Right-arm offspinner, left-arm spinner; There are 4 pacers with it.

He also added, 'We consider Saifuddin as an all-rounder. The plan is to play him that way in the Zimbabwe series. We have added Afif Hossain. As Shakib (Shakib Al Hasan) is not in the team for the first three matches. We took Afif there. There is nothing special to say about the rest of the batsmen in the middle order. Among the pacers is Tanzim Shakib. Besides, there are Taskin and Shariful.