Tour of Sri Lanka 2012-13                  Captain : Mushfiqur Rahim

Bangladesh’s 19th Test tour.

   (March - April 2013)

Fourth Test-playing tour of Sri Lanka by Bangladesh

   (previous tour 2007)

Bangladesh had never met anything but defeat in four previous tours of Sri Lanka but on this tour they avoided whitewash in the two-Test series (losing it by 0-1).

They had slightly the better of a draw in the first Test in which only nineteen wickets fell.  Captain Mushfiqur Rahim appealed for Bangladesh to play more Tests after their much-improved competitiveness in the series.

They also drew the three-match ODI series one-all.

Dhaka Bank were sponsors of the tour.

All Bangladesh tours

Previous tour

to Zimbabwe 2011

Next tour

Zimbabwe 2012-13

Next tour of Sri Lanka

 not yet scheduled

Members of the Test tour party

(15 + 1) 

Opening batsmen: Anamul Haque, Tamim Iqbal

Middle-order batsmen  Jaharul Islam, Mohammad Ashraful, Mominul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Marshall Ayub.

Wicket-keeper/batsman:Mushfiqur Rahim

All-rounder:  Mahmudullah

Slow bowlers:  Elias Sunny, Shohag Gazi, Abdur Razzaq (r)

Fast bowlers: Abul Hasan, Robiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Shahadat Hossain.

Divisional representation

(National Cricket League)

B  -  Barisal (1)

C  -  Chittagong (2)

D –  Dhaka (2)

DM  -  Dhaka Metropolis (3)

K  -  Khulna (3)

Rj  -  Rajshahi (2)

Rp  -  Rangpur (1)

S  -  Sylhet (1)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(8 March 2013):

 24 yrs 2 months.

ODI T20 member of the   one-day/Twenty20 squads.

Test Appearances made before the tour

Mohammad Ashraful 57,  Shahadat Hossain 34,  Mushfiqur Rahim 30,  Tamim Iqbal 26,  Mahmudullah 14,  Rubel Hossain 14,  Abdur Razzaq 9,  Nasir Hossain 6,  Elias Sunny 3,  Jahural Islam 3,  Robiul Islam 3,  Sohag Gazi 2,  Abul Hasan 1,  Amanul Haque 0,  Marshall Ayub 0,  Mominul Haque 0.

Tour Officials

When Richard Pybus left the post of Head Coach prematurely, 36 year-old Queenslander Shane Jurgensen filled in as interim coach, during which time the Tigers won an ODI series against West Indies. He was now appointed Head Coach.

Selectors   

Akram Khan (chief selector),  Habibul Bashar,  Minhajul Abedin Nannu.

Selection

Early in February the national selectors submitted a 25-member preliminary squad to the Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) cricket operations committee

Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Mohammad Elias, Ziaur Rahman, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Abul Hasan, Jahurul Islam, Shafiul Islam, Enamul Haque Bijoy, Abdur Razzak, Rubel Hossain, Mominul Hoque, Shahriar Nafees, Shahadat Hossain, Nazmul Hossain, Robiul Islam, Sohag Gazi, Naeem Islam, Enamul Haque jnr, Shamsur Rahman, Sabbir Rahaman and Marshall Ayub

Akram Khan added 17 year-old pacer Taskin Ahmed into the preliminary squad while thinking to add two more players further. Akram wanted the players to start fitness training in Academy to manage their niggles in the meantime as anybody could got a call up in Sri Lanka tour.

Unavailable  : ⋄Shakib al Hasan (underwent surgery on his right calf in Australia);

⋄Shafiul Islam (suffered a side-strain during the pre-tour camp) ;  ⋄Tamin Iqbal was not sufficiently recovered from a wrist injury to play until the second Test.

Tour Party Announced  : 24 February 2013.

Not selected:  Farhad Reza, Junaid Siddique, ∆Nazimuddin.

Withdrawals:  Enamul Haque junior (left hamstring tear); Naeem Islam (quadriceps tear on right leg); Shahriar Nafees (stitches needed after cutting his left hand while shaving the face of his cricket bat)

Elias Sunny, Marshall Ayub and Mohammad Ashraful replaced the three withdrawn players

The one-day squad was announced on 13 March.

Time between selection and departure from Bangladesh

   4 days

 (24 - 28 February)

Travel   

Dhaka  Q Colombo

Bangladesh’s 15-member Test squad departed from Dhaka for Colombo on 28 February 2013.

Immediately after their arrival in Colombo, Mushfiqur attended the Taj Samudra Hotel for a joint press conference with his Sri Lankan counterpart Angelo Matthews.

After a four-hour journey from Colombo the team reached Matara on 2 March, for their three-day warm-up game. Tamim Iqbal was able to join the squad in Matara.

Time spent in Sri Lanka

33 days

(28 February - 2 April)

On-tour selection panel

Captain Mushfique Rahim,  coach Shane Jurgensen and  on-tour selector Habibul Bashar.

Reinforcements

The team management requested that Abdur Razzaq should be added to the Test squad and he joined the team on Monday 11 March.

Shahadat Hossain left for Sri Lanka on 23 March as a replacement for injured seamer Nazmul Hossain. Shahadat, who was in Bangladesh’s Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka, had gone back to Bangladesh on March 21 following the end of the second Test.

Nazmul’s injury, which took place during a training session in Sri Lanka on March 20 meant that Shahadat would have to go back just two days after his return.

Shamsur Rahman replaced Tamim Iqbal who was ruled out of the remainder of the tour after he injured his right thumb while fielding during the first one-day international in Hambantota.

Fixtures/Results

⊕ (T20 I)Twenty 20 international

§  one-day international

† not first-class

Time spent in Sri Lanka before First Test:    8 days

(28 February -8 March)

Test appearances on tour

2  -    Abul Hasan,  Jahurul Islam,  Mahmudullah,  Mohammad Ashraful,  Mominul Hoque,  Mushfiqur Rahim,  Nasir Hossain,  Sohag Gazi, 

1  -   Anamul Haque,  Elias Sunny,  Robiul Islam,  Rubel Hossain,  Shahadat Hossain,  Tamim Iqbal.

0  -   Abdur Razzak,   Marshall Ayub.

Match appearances

T  Test match

o  one-day international 

x other match 

⊕ T/20 international

∙  played for opposition

W won  L lost  D drawn

N no result   A abandoned 

u unknown result

Bangladesh’s six previous Test tour results:

 in Zimbabwe 2011 (1 Test)

- lost 0-1

 in England 2010  (2 Tests)

- lost 0-2

 in New Zealand 2009-10 (1 Test)

- lost 0-1

 in West Indies 2009  (2 Tests)

- won 2-0

 in South Africa 2008-09  (2 Tests)

- lost 0-2

 in New Zealand 2007-08  (2 Tests)

- lost 0-2

Highlights

•   Mushfiqur Rahim scored 200 at Galle, the maiden double century for the country

•   Mohammad Ashraful (190) and skipper Mushfiqur Rahim shared a 271-run fifth-wicket partnership at Galle

•   Nasir Hossain then scored 100, his first century in Test cricket.

•   Their first-innings score of 638 at Galle was Bangladesh's highest in Test cricket

•   Mominul Haque, the left-handed batsman, made two fifties in his first two Test innings

•   Abdur Razzak became the first Bangladeshi bowler to take 200 wickets in one-day internationals

Tour Summary

Return to Bangladesh

Colombo  Q  Dhaka

Anamul Haque, 20, returned home after the third ODI to prepare for his college exams.

The team arrived home at 11:30 am on 2 April 2013 to Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport, Dhaka.

Coaches Shane Jurgensen and Corey Richards went back to Australia for a short break.

Mosharraf Hossain and Ziaur Rahman, whose passports were held up while they obtained visas for Zimbabwe, arrived home next day.

Time away from Bangladesh

    33days  

(28 February - 2 April)

Finances

Postscript

Within a few days the Bangladesh side for the next tour (to Zimbabwe) had to be selected