Jacks called up for Bangladesh ODIs
DHAKA: England have called up top-order batsman Will Jacks for a three-match ODI series against Bangladesh, said a team official in Dhaka on Saturday.
“Will Jacks has been called into the squad and is due to arrive in Dhaka this evening. Jacks has been in New Zealand with our Test squad,” a team spokesman told reporters.
Jacks will replace the injured Tom Abell.
England, led by Jos Buttler, will play three ODIs and as many Twenty20 Internationals Abell did not travel with the squad having suffered a side injury with the England Lions during their tour of Sri Lanka last week.
Jacks has played two Tests and two Twenty20 internationals for England but has yet to make his debut in ODIs.
He is already part of the England T20 squad for the Bangladesh tour.
The tour will kick off with three ODIs, to be played at Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on March 1 and 3 and Chittagong’s Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on March 6.
Chittagong will then host the first Twenty20 international on March 9 before the teams return to the capital for the remaining two games on March 12 and 14.
England, the world champions in both formats, are the only visiting side to register an ODI series win in Bangladesh since 2015.
No rift with Shakib, says Tamim Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s ODI captain Tamim Iqbal denied there was a schism in the team and insisted his relationship with leading all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was “very normal”.
“Our team environment has been good for a number of years. A happy dressing room allows one to achieve the type of results that you are seeing,” Tamim told reporters at a news conference in Dhaka.
“I think everything is very normal.”
The top-order batsman’s comments came after Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan suggested to website Cricbuzz that the environment in the dressing room was not “healthy”.
“The biggest problem for Bangladesh cricket at the moment is this grouping, and that is the reality. I don’t have a problem with anything else,” Nazmul told the website.—AFP
Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2023
