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Cricketers start individual training


Published : 19 Jul 2020 07:26 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 08:53 PM

A total of nine interested players, including former captain Mushfiqur Rahim who submitted their names to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), resumed individual training in different BCB-run training facilities across the country on Sunday. 

Mushfiqur, Imrul Kayes, Mohammad Mithun, Shafiul Islam started training in Dhaka while Syed Khaled Ahmed and Nasum Ahmed practiced in Sylhet. Mehedi Hasan and Nurul Hasan availed training facilities in Khulna while Nayeem Hasan was the only one practicing in Chattogram.

The BCB has chalked out a seven-day training schedule for a total of nine cricketers, who had expressed interest to begin individual training, which began yesterday and will end on July 26 with an off-day on Friday.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has prepared four venues -- Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka, Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet and Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna -- for the first phase of practice session by following all the necessary safety protocols, according to a BCB statement.

"Players will take part in running and gym sessions at the academy, batting at Indoor centre. Other three venues will be available for Running and GYM only," the statement read. 

Earlier this month, the BCB had announced that all major international and first-class venues along with training facilities -- eight in total -- were being readied for an imminent return of cricket in the country. 

The BCB had earlier postponed its Test tour of Pakistan in April apart from the Ireland and UK tour in May. Last month, Bangladesh's former ODI captain Mashrafe Mortaza along with former players Nazmul Islam and Nafees Iqbal also tested positive for COVID-19. 

Bangladesh's tour of Sri Lanka was postponed while New Zealand, who were slated to play a two-Test in South Asian country in August-September as part of the ICC World Test Championship, also put off the series to a later date due to the health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.