Sports Reporter :
Bangladesh preliminary squad reached Colombo on Monday to play two Test matches against Sri Lanka.
Before leaving the city for Sri Lanka Team Leader of Bangladesh preliminary squad Khaled Mahmud Sujon said, ” We must want to win. We want to show our best performance there. The team, which will play better brand of cricket, will win the matches. We dominated over West Indies in Chattogram for first four days. But we lost to them. We don’t want to do that in Sri Lanka. We want to keep our attention for a long time.”
Sujon said, ” The weather condition of Sri Lanka is too hot. The wickets of Sri Lanka are good. Sri Lanka are tough side in their home soil. But our side have better skill. If we can play our best cricket, I hope we shall do well.”
He said, ” Though we could not show a better brand of cricket in the last Test matches, but we have capability to win. We know about the condition of Sri Lanka. We shall try to play our best cricket. If we can do that I think we have capacity to win.”
He also said, ” The players are physically fit. They try hard in the field. But they could not perform well now-a-days. We have to play as a team. Individual performance is not enough to win. We now want to play as team.”
The players of Bangladesh preliminary squad and the officials of Bangladesh squad will take a three-day long quarantine. Then members of Bangladesh preliminary squad will take part in their practice sessions there.
After that they will play an intra-squad match at Katunayake on April 17 and April 18. Then the final squad will be announced for the upcoming two-match Test series.
The first Test match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will be held at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy from April 21 to April 25.
The second Test match between the tourists and the hosts will take place at the same venue from April 29 to May 3.
Bangladesh team will depart Sri Lanka for Bangladesh on May 4.
The players of Bangladesh preliminary squad: Mominul Haque, Liton Das, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Sadman Islam, Abu Jayed, Taijul Islam, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mehidy Hassan Miraz, Nayeem Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadat Hossain, Saif Hassan, Yasir Ali, Shoriful Islam, Khaled Ahmed, Mukidul Islam, Shuvagata Hom, Shohidul Islam and Nurul Hasan Sohan.
