Bangladesh known as up younger opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim on Saturday to their 17-member squad for the Asia Cup one-day worldwide match starting later this month. Left-handed Tamim was a member of the Bangladesh staff that gained the 2020 Under-19 World Cup in South Africa and has since been groomed as a brand new prospect by the Bangladesh Cricket Board.

The 22-year-old scored 179 runs in 4 matches of July’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, with three half-centuries and a strike charge of 117.

“Our national selection panel is very confident about Tanzid,” chief selector Minhajul Abedin instructed 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 resulting from damage.

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

Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam has been dropped from the squad with Minhajul saying the “more defensive” Nasum Ahmed was most popular for the flat wickets anticipated within the Asia Cup.  Minhajul mentioned Bangladesh’s squad for the World Cup in India in October wouldn’t essentially match the Asia Cup squad.

“We will have until September 5 to think of our World Cup squad. Until then, our concern is only the Asia Cup,” he mentioned.

Bangladesh will play alongside Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in Group B of the Asia Cup, which begins on August 30. All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan will return as ODI captain.

Squad: Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Liton Das, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Shamim Hossain, Afif Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Ebadot Hossain, Mohammad Naim.