Bangladesh calls up uncapped duo for Afghanistan Test

The Afghan Test side will arrive on June 10 to play the match, which starts on June 14 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the capital Dhaka.

FILE PHOTO: Batter Liton Das will lead the Bangladesh team in the absence of regular skipper Shakib Al Hasan.

Bangladesh on Sunday called up uncapped batter Shahadat Hossain and fast bowler Mushfik Hasan for the one-off Test against Afghanistan later this month.

The Afghan Test side will arrive on June 10 to play the match, which starts on June 14 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the capital Dhaka.

Chittagong Division’s 21-year old middle-order batter Hossain made his First-Class debut in 2021 and scored 1,265 runs from 20 First-Class games, with two hundreds and 10 fifties.

Hasan, a 20-year-old fast bowler, took 49 wickets from 13 First-Class matches, including three five-wicket hauls, after he burst onto the scene in the 2022 First-Class season for Rangpur Division.

Both Hossain and Hasan impressed for Bangladesh A in the just-concluded series against the West Indies A team.

Batter Liton Das will lead the Bangladesh team in the absence of regular skipper Shakib Al Hasan, who has been nursing a finger injury.

Afghanistan will return home for the Eid al-Adha festival and then come back to play three One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals in Chittagong and Sylhet.

It has so far played only one Test against Bangladesh, which it won by 224 runs in Chittagong in 2019.