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Rasel returns

Squad announced for Pakistan GDIs

Sports Reporter
There were no changes apart from bringing in left arm seamer Syed Rasel to the fold after he missed the Ireland scries when the national i selectors announced a 15-membcr squad for the tour of Pakistan yesterday.
Rasel was recalled as the Rafiqul Alain led panel extended the team by a single player for five one-day internationals and a IWcnty20 game.
Mohammad Ashraful's men will fly to Karachi on April 6 to play the matches in four different cities --Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Karachi -- under floodlights.
This selection panel finally kept away from their 'cut and chop' policy as the series whitewash against Ireland made them believe that it would be unwise to bring any changes into the winning combi nation.
But the interesting fact is that only skipper Mohammad Ashraful and vice-captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza survived from the team (hat last visited Pakistan in 2003 under the leadership of Khaled Mahmud.
"We kept faith in the winning squad as the boys got back the much-needed confidence and team spirit after winning the last series against Ireland quite comfortably," said Rafiq, while disclosing the team at a press conference at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.
'We didn't consider Rasel for (he last series because we gave special attention on the spin attack. But this time we felt that we There were no changes apart from bringing in left arm seamer Syed Rasel to the fold after he missed the Ireland scries when the national i selectors announced a 15-membcr squad for the tour of Pakistan yesterday.
Rasel was recalled as the Rafiqul Alain led panel extended the team by a single player for five one-day internationals and a IWcnty20 game.
Mohammad Ashraful's men will fly to Karachi on April 6 to play the matches in four different cities --Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Karachi -- under floodlights.
This selection panel finally kept away from their 'cut and chop' policy as the series whitewash against Ireland made them believe that it would be unwise to bring any changes into the winning combi nation.
But the interesting fact is that only skipper Mohammad Ashraful and vice-captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza survived from the team (hat last visited Pakistan in 2003 under the leadership of Khaled Mahmud.
"We kept faith in the winning squad as the boys got back the much-needed confidence and team spirit after winning the last series against Ireland quite comfortably," said Rafiq, while disclosing the team at a press conference at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.
'We didn't consider Rasel for (he last series because we gave special attention on the spin attack. But this time we felt that we
need to have more options in our pace attack for the Pakistan series, so we recalled Rasel. And the most important thing is that the board extended the size," he added.
The former national player however didn’t forget to reiterate their future plan as he said what-
ever they are doi ng is with an eye on the next World Cup to be held in the subcontinent in 2011.
"We want to stick to our longterm policy which is to make a team for the next World Cup," he said.
Rafiqul also explained the reasons behind their decision to keep faith in middle-order batsman Rokibul Hasan and wicketkeeper Dhiman Ghosh and not to consider left-arm spinner Mosharraf Hossain after poor showing in only one series.
"We have a left-arm spinner in (Abdur) Razzak who is one of the best bowlers in the world and Shakib Al Hasan and we didn't feel the need for another left-arm spinner. On the other hand we believe that Rokibul and Dhiman
are yet to deliver tneir nest oecause they didn't get enough opportunities in the last series to bat,’ explained Rafiq
He was very confident about the Tigers' good showing in the series.
’This team has the potential to do something if they maintain the team rules," he hoped
Rafiq also informed that they need two more men in the selection panel to keep standard on selection of different teams.
’We already expressed our desire to the board and hopefully within a short time we will get two more selectors in the panel,’ he informed.