Dhaka [Bangladesh], September 3 (ANI): Litton Das will captain Bangladesh within the males’s cricket event on the Asian Games 2026, with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) saying a 15-member squad for the competitors, which begins on September 17, in response to the ICC.
The squad options the return of a number of key gamers from the workforce that confronted Zimbabwe in July, together with captain Litton Das and Najmul Hossain Shanto.
Bangladesh secured a podium end on the earlier version of the Asian Games, claiming the bronze medal behind silver medallists Sri Lanka and gold medallists India.
Alongside India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, Bangladesh earned direct qualification for the 2026 event, with hosts Japan additionally securing an computerized spot. Nepal, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Oman accomplished the line-up after progressing by the qualifying event.
Bangladesh’s most up-to-date T20I task got here throughout their tour of Zimbabwe, the place they secured a 2-1 sequence victory within the three-match sequence.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh pulled off one of many greatest upsets in Test cricket because the Najmul Hossain Shanto-led facet defeated Australia by 9 wickets in Darwin final month.. The historic victory made Bangladesh solely the third Asian workforce, after India and Pakistan, to win a Test in Australia.Â
Bangladesh squad:
Litton Das (c), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Mohammed Saif Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Tawhid Hridoy, Musaddek Hossain Saikat, Yasir Ali Chowdhury, Rishad Hossain, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Shaif Uddin, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman and Hasan Mahmud. (ANI)