The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced the 16-member squad on Thursday for the upcoming two-match Test series against India, leaving out pacer Shoriful Islam.
Shoriful is yet to recover from the groin injury he sustained after Bangladesh first Test against Pakistan, reports BSS.
"Shoriful is yet to recover from his groin injury sufficiently and so we did not take any risk with him," the BCB selection panel chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu said on Thursday.
The Bangladesh team preparation camp is taking place at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, keeping the India series in mind.
A full-scale strike by doctors in protest against assault on doctors and nurses, as well as vandalism, following the death of a patient at Coxs Bazar District Sadar Hospital continued into the second day, resulting in a fresh spell of suffering for patients.
More than 500 patients who were admitted to the Coxs Bazar District Hospital have left, leaving the hospital nearly empty.
Authorities have said limited services are being provided in the emergency department.
In solidarity with the ongoing protest, private chambers also stopped seeing patients.
Meanwhile, students from Coxs Bazar Medical College have joined the demonstration as well.
Since Thursday, protests and human chains have been ongoing with a four-point demand.
Since the change of government, a wave of changes has swept across various sectors in the country, including the sports arena. Previously, the Ministry of Youth and Sports had removed the heads of three federations and ordered the dissolution of all divisional, district, and women sports associations to form ad-hoc committees. Now, 42 presidents of federations and sports associations have been dismissed at once.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports announced the decision in a press release on Tuesday. This step was taken under the orders of President Mohammad Shahabuddin.
In the press release, signed by the Assistant Secretary of the National Sports Council (NSC), S.M. Humayun Kabir, it was stated, "Under the powers granted by Section 22 of the National Sports Council Act, 2018, the government hereby relieves the presidents of the following federations/associations/boards of their duties to further activate and reform the operations of the existing federations/associations/boards."
A passenger trawler on the Naf River, returning from Coxs Bazar Saint Martin Island, came under fire from Myanmar on Tuesday morning.
While no casualties were reported, the trawler was hit by bullets in several areas.
The incident occurred near the Badramokam estuary, when the trawler, owned by Abdur Rashid, was on its way back to Teknaf.
The vessel later docked at the Shahpari Island jetty, safely unloading passengers.
It remains unclear whether the shots were fired by government forces or rebels, though the Arakan Army, a rebel group, controls much of Myanmar Rakhine State.