Bangladesh Cricket Board introduced their girls’s crew for the upcoming ODI collection in opposition to Sri Lanka, with rising 20-year-old wicketkeeper-batter Juairiya Ferdous profitable her first worldwide choice.
This collection can also be a chance for the Bangladesh Girls’s Cricket Staff to proceed constructing upon their latest success. The chosen squad consists of each veteran gamers and promising younger gamers, in what the selectors have chosen as a 15-player squad.
Collection Schedule and Venue
The three-match collection is ready to start on April 20 in Rajshahi, with the remaining matches scheduled for April 22 and 25. All fixtures shall be held on the Rajshahi Divisional Stadium.
This shall be Sri Lanka’s first bilateral girls’s ODI collection in Bangladesh. Sri Lanka gained the one earlier bilateral ODI collection between the edges, which was performed in Sri Lanka in 2023. The groups’ earlier assembly was on the World Cup in 2025, when Sri Lanka gained a thriller by seven runs. Following the ODI collection, three T20Is are scheduled on April 28 and 30, and Might 2, in Sylhet.
Juairiya Ferdous: The Debutant in Focus
Juairiya Ferdous is the standout title within the squad announcement. The uncapped wicketkeeper-batter is but to play an ODI. Ferdous made her debut for Bangladesh on the T20 World Cup Qualifier held in Nepal in February, representing the Tigresses in T20Is throughout the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup qualifiers.
Her choice for the ODI squad alerts the selectors’ confidence in her capability to adapt throughout codecs. As a wicketkeeper-batter, she brings each glovework and batting depth to a squad that carries clear intent to construct for the longer term whereas remaining aggressive within the current collection.
Sarmin Sultana’s Return After Seven Years
Alongside Juairiya’s debut call-up, the squad additionally encompasses a notable comeback. Bangladesh introduced again batter Sarmin Sultana into the ODI facet for the primary time in seven years. The final of 32-year-old Sarmin’s 13 ODIs got here in opposition to Pakistan in November 2019. She performed within the Girls’s Asia Cup Rising Stars T20 event in February this 12 months, the place Bangladesh misplaced to India within the closing.
Sarmin’s return is one amongst three adjustments to the squad that was chosen for the World Cup in India late final 12 months. Offspinner Sultana Khatun is the opposite inclusion for the Sri Lanka collection. From the World Cup squad, Rubya Haider, Nishita Akter, and Sumaiya Akter couldn’t discover a place within the facet.
Bangladesh Girls’s Squad for Sri Lanka ODIs
Class
Gamers
Captain
Nigar Sultana Joty
Vice-Captain
Nahida Akter
Batters
Farzana Haque, Sobhana Mostary, Sharmin Akter Supta, Shanjida Akther Maghla, Sarmin Sultana
All-rounders
Fahima Khatun, Ritu Moni, Shorna Akter, Marufa Akter
Spinners
Rabeya Khan, Sultana Khatun, Fariha Islam Trisna
Wicketkeeper-Batter
Juairiya Ferdous
Stand-by Gamers
Dilara Akter, Shorifa Khatun, Farjana Easmin, Tanjim Tanjehar
Management and Squad Stability
The captain of a crew of 15 gamers shall be Joty, and the vice-captain shall be Akhtar. The squad consists of 15 gamers, together with 4 back-up gamers: Akhtar, Shorifa Khatun, Farjana Easmin, and Tanjim Tanjehar.
The gamers who kind the core of the squad are all skilled and have supported the Bangladesh Girls’s cricket crew by the latest interval of worldwide competitors. Joty has supplied the bottom for stability as she continues in her function as captain, whereas the truth that Akhtar has been appointed to the place of vice-captain is a transparent reflection of her significance to the crew, not simply when it comes to her capability as a bowler but additionally as a senior member of the crew.
The choice to incorporate Juairiya Ferdous as a part of the skilled core group illustrates BCB’s intent to develop younger gamers able to taking over further obligations because the BCB prepares for a busy run of worldwide fixtures.
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