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Rain disrupts Tigers’ prep

Sports Reporter
The rain played foul when the England-bound cricketers resumed their practice at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mi rpur yesterday.
After the Port-City Cricket League, the Tigers returned to the business for the preparation of the upcoming ICC World I\venty20s to be held in England in June and were scheduled to play two 1\venty20 games against Bangladesh Ayesterday.
But the second match was abandoned after completion of the first innings due to heavy rain. Dashing opener Tamim Iqbal made maximum use of the unfinished game with a 52-ball 66 that contained eight boundaries and enabled the national side to put up a decent total of 133-9 in their share of 20 overs.
There was however no fireworks in the first game which the national side lost by six runs against the second-string side. Zunaed Siddiqui top scored with 33 off 27 balls with three fours and a six while Rokibul Hasan added 29 off 32 balls with two boundaries as the senior team finished their 20-over quota for 123-7 in reply to 129-6.
Out-of-favour Nafis Iqbal continued his PCL form with a 39-ball 35 while Mahmudullah
Riyad hit 34 in the Bangladesh A innings.
All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan however missed the match as he has not fully recovered from the groin injury but is likely to play one practice match out of three against Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA).
MCA will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow where the national players will play three practice matches against the visiting side after playing another T20 against Bangladesh A tomorrow at the same venue.
"I feel better now and hopefully will play one practice match against Maharashtra," said Shakib, who has been out of action for last two months after playing five Premier league matches.
The Tigers are scheduled to leave for England on May 23 and will play additional warm-up games at Wormsley on May 26 (against New Zealand) and May 29 (against Scotland) and then travel to Kent to face Netherlands on May 28. Bangladesh's official practice games are against Australia (on June 1) and Sri Lanka (on June 4) at Nottingham.
Bangladesh have been pitted in group A along with defending champions India and ICC associate member Ireland in the second-version of the ICC World T\venty20 which will kickofffromjune5.
Ashraful's men face India on June 6 and Ireland on June 8 at TYent Bridge in the group A matches.