Bangladesh Women name Asia T20 Cup squad

Bangladesh Women have named their fifteen-strong squad for the Asia T20 Cup in Malaysia in June.

The team come into the tournament on the back of a whitewash away defeat to the Proteas in both ODIs and T20Is and will need to start strong against Sri Lanka.

Lily Rani Biswas and Ayesha Rahman come into the group that lost three members from the sixteen in South Africa.

Biswas has not played a T20I for Bangladesh since the 2013 World T20.

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Sobhana Mostary, Suraya Azmim and Murshida Khatun drop out of the squad after the chastening defeats in South Arica.

The 2018 Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup will be the seventh edition of the ACC Women’s Asia Cup, organized by the Asian Cricket Council.

2018 Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup Bangladesh squad: Salma Khatun (Captain), Nahida Akter, Rumana Ahmed, Panna Ghosh, Nigar Sultana, Lily Rani Biswas, Fargana Hoque, Sanjida Islam, Khadaija Tul Kubra, Sharmin Sultana, Fahima Khatun Jahanara Alam, Ayesha Rahman, Shamima Sultana, Jannatul Ferdous Sumona.