National cricket team selector Habibul Bashar said on Friday the
upcoming BCB Challenge Cup will give national the players a chance to
have competitive match practice for the home series against West Indies.
Bangladesh Cricket Board was severely criticised for its failure to
arrange any longer version warm-up matches for the squad before the
Zimbabwe tour.
Bangladesh played three two-day matches against the GP-BCB Cricket
Academy which many believed was not good enough as the national team had
not played any longer-version cricket for 14 months. Bangladesh lost
the one-off Test and the five-match one-day series by 3-2 margin.
The BCB failed to arrange a preparation match for the national team
in South Africa ahead of the tour and it also did not permit the side to
fly to Zimbabwe three days earlier after the Zimbabwe board demanded an
additional $30,000.
‘The BCB Challenge Cup will be an ideal preparation for the home
series against West Indies,’ Bashar told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla
National Stadium.
‘It will provide them competitive matches which I think we lacked before the Zimbabwe tour,’ said Bashar.
‘The practice matches that we had before the
team left for Zimbabwe
were played more or
less in a relaxed mood,’ he added.
‘But I think the BCB Challenge Cup will be different as three teams
have been selected so that there can be competition among the
participating sides in the tournament,’ he added.
The champions in the tournament will receive Tk 4 lakh as prize money.
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