Marshall Ayub to lead GP-BCB Academy Squad

[bdchamp20]

Marshall Ayub will skipper the GP-BCB Academy squad against the touring Sri Lankan Academy. Johirul Islam will serve as his deputy. The series starts in May 4 with a four day match. The series will include another 4 day match and 5 one dayers. The matches will be played in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet.

Full Squad: Marshall Ayub(C), Johirul Islam(VC)(WK), Nasiruddin Faruq, Imtiaz Hossain, Arman Hossain, Forhad Hossain, Shuvagoto Hom, Raihan Arafat, Saqlain Sajib, Robiul Islam, Shofiul Islam, Arafat Salauddin, Muktar Ali, Kamrul Islam and Shafaq Al Jabir

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[nadim 98]

i was hoping to see rony and mithun there but BCB is looking to build more young player.not bad

[bdchamp20]

Its good to see players like Shuvagoto Hom and Robiul Islam being rewarded for good performance in domestic matches. However I can't understand how players like Nasir Faruq, Raihan Arafat and Shafaq Al Zabir can retain their places eventhough they do not have any notable performances in domestic cricket while players like Subashis Roy and other players get ignored. I can understand why Shamsur, Mithun have not been selected as they have a chance of making the T20 squad. I have mixed reactions for this squad.

[nycpro96]

Nice to see Marshall Ayub getting chances for leadership.

[Murad]

Mithun was not selected because he took a leave. He has HSC examination coming up and he is busy studying.

[Orion]

sad to see Nadif missing out. He has been pretty consistent this season with Abahoni and Dhaka. Although he is no longer a bowler, his batting and fielding can be vital if he makes it to our ODI squad in the future.

[Gowza]

nasir, rony, sajidul, subashis, delwar, nabil, nadimuddin, there seems to be a few players missing (not including mithun, shamsur etc).

[MohammedC]

Originally Posted by Orion
sad to see Nadif missing out. He has been pretty consistent this season with Abahoni and Dhaka. Although he is no longer a bowler, his batting and fielding can be vital if he makes it to our ODI squad in the future.

Sorry brother dont agree with you. He has been given plenty of chance with academy team and a-team but for some reason he does not seem to play as expected. And as for this DPL season he scored 144 runs with an average of 16 playing 12 innings.

http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archiv...d_Batting.html

and on NCL one day he did not do that well either

http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archiv...n_Batting.html

I dont know what is wrong with him.

[MohammedC]

Nice to see some games played in Sylhet. It will be good for local cricket.

[bujhee kom]

Alhamdulillah on Marshall Ayub, He is my dream batsman...I pray for him every night.

BTW who is that pretty fair lady behind the mocrophone? I have seen her photo here on BC before somewhere! Does she also play cricket? Does she ball googly?

[BagherBacha]

Originally Posted by bujhee kom
Alhamdulillah on Marshall Ayub, He is my dream batsman...I pray for him every night.

BTW who is that pretty fair lady behind the mocrophone? I have seen her photo here on BC before somewhere! Does she also play cricket? Does she ball googly?

she bowls googly for Dr, Younis

[rashed411]

Originally Posted by BagherBacha
she bowls googly for Dr, Younis

haha or is it jiggly?

[wiseshah]

Originally Posted by bdchamp20
Its good to see players like Shuvagoto Hom and Robiul Islam being rewarded for good performance in domestic matches. However I can't understand how players like Nasir Faruq, Raihan Arafat and Shafaq Al Zabir can retain their places eventhough they do not have any notable performances in domestic cricket while players like Subashis Roy and other players get ignored. I can understand why Shamsur, Mithun have not been selected as they have a chance of making the T20 squad. I have mixed reactions for this squad.

i think these three has strong back up uncle. raihan arafat seems like a regular in a team and academy team for last 1 yr. he doesnt perform in any form but he is still under good radar. so is nasir faruq.

[Murad]

Come on guys..
We don't have that much of players for all these teams. (U-19, Academy, A-team)

We have an A-team to make to play against Maharashtra remember? That's why selectors selected a few under-performing players for the Academy team. Selectors are trying to make a strong A-team squad.

Besides, Raihan Uddin Arafat is a leg/off spinner. We have very few of them so its always better to give him time to develope.

Nasir also didn't do that bad in the DPL. Averaged over 25. But that's good enough for Academy team at this moment as we don't have enough players to choose from.

Shafaq Al Zabir took 17 wickets at about 30 from 10 matches in the DPL. Is that too bad??

[Mridul]

Originally Posted by muradnyc
Come on guys..
We don't have that much of players for all these teams. (U-19, Academy, A-team)

We have an A-team to make to play against Maharashtra remember? That's why selectors selected a few under-performing players for the Academy team. Selectors are trying to make a strong A-team squad.

Besides, Raihan Uddin Arafat is a leg/off spinner. We have very few of them so its always better to give him time to develope.

Nasir also didn't do that bad in the DPL. Averaged over 25. But that's good enough for Academy team at this moment as we don't have enough players to choose from.

Shafaq Al Zabir took 17 wickets at about 30 from 10 matches in the DPL. Is that too bad??

hai re Bangladesh Cricket.....we dont have enough players to choose...........other countries have tons of 40+ avg batsmen.....but not getting chances in the national squad

[Ashfaq]

Originally Posted by Mridul
hai re Bangladesh Cricket.....we dont have enough players to choose...........other countries have tons of 40+ avg batsmen.....but not getting chances in the national squad

We gotta start somewhere. Think of Kenya, or Ireland. They have a very small pool of players, let alone a pool of talented players. We are gifted with an adequately proportioned pool of players, most of them have the potential to take our national bar of performance higher.

If we don't falter, I don't see why we can't get a ton of 40+ averaging batsmen when BCB is as old as ECB.

[Catskills]

Originally Posted by bdchamp20
Its good to see players like Shuvagoto Hom and Robiul Islam being rewarded for good performance in domestic matches. However I can't understand how players like Nasir Faruq, Raihan Arafat and Shafaq Al Zabir can retain their places eventhough they do not have any notable performances in domestic cricket while players like Subashis Roy and other players get ignored. I can understand why Shamsur, Mithun have not been selected as they have a chance of making the T20 squad. I have mixed reactions for this squad.

Shafaq Al Zabir has 14.09 average and Econ of 3.28 in lsit A, taking 73 wickets. Who has this kind of stats? In 2008/2009 NLC, he took 13 wickets at an average of 13.84 with Econ of 2.90. please check his domestic performance before putting him down.

[MohammedC]

Sri Lanka Dev squad 339-5
Staff Correspondent
Sri Lanka development squad rode on four half-centuries to score 339-5 on the opening day of the two-day warm-up match against GP-BCB National Academy at the Khulna Divisional Stadium on Thursday.
L Thirimanne scored highest 79 runs for the tourists while opener K Gunawardene made 74. A Priyanjan chipped in with 61 before M Siriwardana became the fourth half-centurion to remain unbeaten on 54.
Shafaq-Al-Jabir claimed 2-63 while Farhad Hossain and Raihan Uddin took one wicket each for the hosts.

http://www.newagebd.com/2009/may/01/spt.html

[Murad]

it was expected.. we have poor bowling attack..

[Rifat]

it is very sad indeed when half our strong "A" Team is drafted from the under-19 team

[bdchamp20]

Academy lost by nine wickets

On the bright side Shuvagoto Hom made a calm 40 in his first ever 4-day game . One to watch out for IMO.

[nycpro96]

at least someone scored a little bit

[Gowza]

yeah shuvagoto is one to keep an eye, has done a pretty good job this season.

[bujhee kom]

Originally Posted by bdchamp20
Academy lost by nine wickets
On the bright side Shuvagoto Hom made a calm 40 in his first ever 4-day game . One to watch out for IMO.

That's okay bhais, Inshallah, we will bounce back in the next match!
The boys tried and we are very proud of them!
Go BD Academy!

[mshakir56]

Better luck next time folks !