Asia Cup 2023, Bangladesh Captain: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan has insisted that Shakib Al Hasan is his preferred candidate for the ODI captaincy in the upcoming 2023 Asia Cup after Tamim Iqbal was ruled out due to a back injury.
Let us inform that Tamim Iqbal had decided to relinquish the captaincy after taking U-turn from retirement recently. However, Shakib is currently the captain of the Test and T20 team. before 2011 ODI World Cup Shakib has taken over the command of the team.
Earlier, Nazmul Hasan had indicated that if Tamim is not available for the Asia Cup, then Liton Das can captain. However, now after leaving the captaincy of Tamim, on the basis of experience, Shakib is at the forefront of the race to become the captain.
Speaking to reporters in Dhaka, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan said, “We haven’t discussed the captaincy yet. We will have to take a break and think about it. As I have said earlier, If it was a series, we could have gone with the vice-captain (Litton Das), but now we have to think long term.”
He further added, “There are two problems. If we think about the long term, it is one thing. But the World Cup is also round the corner and the pressure of the World Cup is huge. If I choose a new captain, I don’t know.” Whether he can handle the pressure of the World Cup or not. Then we need to consider that also. If we pick someone on a long-term basis and he is not available after one year, what will we do? So we have to look at these things. need to be discussed.”
The BCB president further said, “Shakib is the first choice, but can you say that he will play for two years? We don’t know that and so we need to know his plan and talk to the board. I think the easiest The substitute is Shakib and there is no problem in that.”
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