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Marshall returns

Sports Reporter
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After a year in wilderness, talented batsman Marshall Ayub is all set to play competitive cricket as the right-hander was included in the 14-member GP-BCB National Academy squad for their South Africa trip.
Chief selector Rafiqul Alam said while declaring the team in a press conference at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday that the promising cricketer has fully recovered from his knee injury.
"Marshall is now fully fit to play competitive cricket and has been practicing with the academy players for the last one and a half months." informed Rafiq.
Academy operations manager and former national captain Khaled Mahmud was excited with the return of the talented batsman. "It's good news because he has a lot of potential to serve the game for a long time. His left knee was successfully operated and now he is fully fit," said Mahmud.
The Academy side will leave Dhaka on August 4 to play Iwo four-dayers and three one-day matches against their South African counterparts in Pretoria and Johannesburg.
This time there was no Test player but Rafiq however didn't make it clear whether they changed their selection policy for the Academy side.
"We picked the best side from the available 19 Academy players as six of them are traveling with the Bangladesh A team in England We excluded the players touring in England as getting South African visa for them from England would be difficult," responded Rafiq.
The new development committee boss Shakil Kasem spelled out the importance of the Academy team with the fact that our domestic competition is still not organ-
ised enough to groom the players for the highest level of the game.
"It is the breeding ground. The next four-five years is very important for us because we have to produce some quality players to fill the gap. As our domestic competitions are not still organised enough, from where actually do these players get seasoned before entering into the international stage? So we have to concentrate more on the Academy team," explained the newly-appointed development committee chairman.
"We can't perform as well in international cricket as we should do, so we try to take care of these potential young cricketers, the future of Bangladesh cricket, through sending them to different countries is in line with bilateral agreements," he added.
The former cricketer said that for an additional input they have decided to arrange a discussion session on August 2 where former and current national players like Mohammad Rafique, Khaled Mashud and Mohammad Ashraful would share the knowledge of their
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South African experiences with the academy cricketers.
Shakil also informed that the board in principle has decided to form a different selection committee for the Academy and age-group teams to ease the burden of the national selectors.
Grameenphone director (marketing) Rubaba Dowla also spoke in the function.
SQUAD
Suhrawardi Shuvo (captain), Sahagir Hossain (vice captain), Farhad Hossain, Shamsur Rahman, Marshall Ayub, Nadif Chowdhury, Imrul Kayes, Jahurul Islam, Nasir Hossain, Raihan Uddin, Mahbubul Alam Robin, Shafaq-AJ-Jabir, Ziaur Rahman and Delwar Hossain.
ITINERARY
Aug 8-11 ■ Istfour-dayers, Pretoria Aug 14-17 • 2nd four-dayer, Pretoria Aug 20- 1st one-dayer, Johannesburg Aug 22 - 2nd one-dayer, Pretoria Aug 24 - 3rd one-dayer, Johannesburg