March 05, 2008	Wednesday	Safar 26, 1429

CHITTAGONG (Bangladesh), March 4: Bangladesh have named four uncapped players in a 14-man one-day squad for the upcoming series against South Africa.

The three-match One-day International series starts here on Sunday.

Bangladesh have recalled batsman Shahriar Nafees and left-arm pacer Syed Rasel and dropped wicket-keeper Mushfiqur Rahim.

Aftab Ahmed will miss the series because of an injury sustained in the second Test against South Africa.

Aftab was hit on the cheek by a delivery from Jacques Kallis on Sunday and he has been rested after hospital treatment.

Shahriar and Rasel were out of the one-day squad that toured New Zealand in January.

“We are relying on the uncapped middle order batsmen Nazim Uddin and Roqibul Hassan, and wicket-keeper Dhiman Ghosh and all-rounder Mosharraf Hossain,” chief selector, Rafiqul Alam said on Tuesday.

Mushfiqur has been dropped for his poor performance in the Test series, which South Africa swept 2-0. He scored 28 runs from four innings in the series and in the last five one-dayers, he could make only four runs and a duck.

Meanwhile, a hamstring injury has forced all-rounder Vernon Philander to withdraw from South Africa’s squad for the ODIs.

Squad: Mohammad Ashraful (captain), Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Nazim Uddin, Shahriar Nafees, Saqibul Hasan, Dhiman Ghosh, Mashrafe Mortaza, Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Mosharraf Hossain, Syed Rasel, Farhad Reza, Roqibul Hassan.—Reuters