!Bangladesh Vs New Zealand House !**

December

16 v Northern Districts, Hamilton

18 v Northern Districts, Hamilton

21 v Auckland, Auckland

23 Twenty20 International, Hamilton

26 1st ODI v New Zealand, Auckland
Starts 2300 GMT 25 December

28 2nd ODI v New Zealand, Napier
Starts 2200 GMT 27 December

31 3rd ODI v New Zealand, Queenstown
Starts 2200 GMT 30 December

January

4-8 1st Test v New Zealand, Dunedin
1st day starts 2200 GMT 3 January

Following is the 15-man Bangladesh ODI Squad for the Tour of New Zealand 2007-08. Mohammad Ashraful has been named Captain while Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will be the Vice Captain.

The BCB has appointed Ashraful and Mortaza Captain and Vice Captain of the Bangladesh Team until December 2008:

Squad:
1 Mohammad Ashraful (Captain)
2 Masrafe Bin Mortaza (Vice Captain)
3 Javed Omer Belim
4 Tushar Imran
5 Khan Abdur Razzak
6 Shakib Al Hasan
7 Syed Rasel
8 Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury
9 Md. Mushfiqur Rahim
10 Kazi Shahadat Hossain
11 Md. Zunaed Siddique
12 Md. Farhad Reza
13 Mehrab Hossain
14 Tamim Iqbal Khan
15 Md. Nazmul Hossain

Stand By:

1 Khandaker Md. Rajin Salah Alam
2 Shahriar Nafees Ahmed
3 Kazi Habibul Bashar
4 Md. Khaled Mashud
5 Mohammed Rafique
6 Md. Mahmud Ullah
7 Dollar Mahmud
8 Md. Sajedul Islam
9 Mohammed Enamul Haque

Matches

[edit] ODI Series

[edit] 1st ODI

December 26
	Bangladesh	vs	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand

[edit] 2nd ODI

December 28
	Bangladesh	vs	New Zealand	McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand

[edit] 3rd ODI

December 31
	Bangladesh	vs	New Zealand	Queenstown Events Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

[edit] Test Matches

[edit] 1st Test

January 4 - January 8
	Bangladesh	vs	New Zealand	University Oval, Dunedin, New Zealand

[edit] 2nd Test

January 12 - January 16
	Bangladesh	vs	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand

[edit] Tour Matches

[edit] 1st Match:First Class-Bangladesh vs. Northern Districts

January 12 - January 16
	Bangladesh	vs	Northern Districts	Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand

[edit] 1st Match:List A-Bangladesh vs. Northern Districts

December 31
	Bangladesh	vs	Northern Districts	Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand

Bangladesh in New Zealand, 2007-08

Ashraful leads ODI squad to New Zealand

Cricinfo staff

November 26, 2007

Mohammad Ashraful will lead Bangladesh's 15-man squad to play the three-match ODI series in New Zealand next month. Mashrafe Mortaza has been named his deputy; the tenures of both the captain and vice-captain have been extended until December 2008.

Opener Shahriar Nafees and offspinner Mahmudullah have been dropped from the team that were run over by Sri Lanka in July. They have been replaced by Junaid Siddique, who scored 71 in the only match he played during the ICC World Twenty20, and Nazmul Hossain, an up-and-coming fast bowler.

The squad has two other openers in Javed Omar and Tamim Iqbal, while the bowling attack will be lead by Mortaza, and includes Syed Rasel, Abdur Razzak and Shahadat Hossain, besides allrounders Shakib al Hasan, Mehrab Hossain jnr and Farhad Reza. Mushfiqur Rahim continues as wicketkeeper, while Aftab Ahmed - who has often thrilled with his brief but breathtaking stroke play - will play alongside Ashraful in the middle order.

Bangladesh, who have only played two Tests previously in New Zealand, are scheduled to begin their tour with a warm-up match against Northern Districts starting on December 19 although there has been talk of organising a charity Twenty20 match to raise money for the cyclone victims in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh squad Mohammad Ashraful (capt), Mashrafe Mortaza, Javed Omar, Tushar Imran, Abdur Razzak, Shakib Al Hasan, Syed Rasel, Aftab Ahmed, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shahadat Hossain, Junaid Siddique, Farhad Reza, Mehrab Hossain jnr, Tamim Iqbal, Nazmul Hossain.

Cricinfo

Bangladesh in New Zealand, 2007-08

Twenty20 fundrasier on the cards

Cricinfo staff

November 24, 2007

New Zealand and Bangladesh are in discussions to play a Twenty20 charity match to raise funds for survivors of Cyclone Sidr, which devastated Bangladesh last week.

Although Bangladesh officials have already said the match will be played in New Zealand on December 23, just before the start of a one-day series between the teams, a New Zealand spokesman said discussions were ongoing. A warm-up one-day match between Bangladesh and Northern Districts is currently scheduled for that date.

Bangladesh's tour includes three one-day internationals, starting on December 26 in Auckland, and two Tests in Dunedin and Wellington during early January.

Cricinfo

Bangladesh board yet to find replacement for Whatmore

Ashraful calls for full-time coach

Cricinfo staff

September 26, 2007

Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladesh's captain, has called for the appointment of a full-time coach ahead of his side's tour to New Zealand at the end of the year.

"I feel we desperately need a permanent coach, whoever it may be, Shaun [Williams] or anyone else. There is a big difference between a permanent and temporary coach. You can't expect teamwork with a temporary solution," Ashraful told the Daily Star.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has been looking for a national coach since Dav Whatmore refused a two-year contract extension after spending four years with the team. Interim coach Shaun Williams, who took over in June, was at the helm for a tour of Sri Lanka and the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa. Neither of the two tours was successful for Bangladesh and the strategies of the team management have been criticised, especially after some haphazard batting in the Twenty20.

National selector and former captain Akram Khan, who was part of the team management during the last two trips, also stressed on the need of a full-time coach. "I was only part of the selection process. I wasn't involved in game planning," he said. "Actually the captain and coach have the big role behind the planning. What I want to say is that we should have come out from the short-term solution immediately about the coach."

However, he expressed his satisfaction over the Twenty20 performance. "I think our performance was not bad because we fulfilled our target but the problem is that we were not consistent enough in any form of the game," he said. "What I felt was that our team couldn't play their natural game with the expectations getting higher."

Chief selector Rafiqul Alam also expressed his satisfaction over Bangladesh's performance in South Africa. "The batting problems might remain in the Twenty20 format but what is most important is that nobody took us lightly. I believe if anybody is good in the five-day game then he will be okay in any format," he said. "We have to shift our focus to the New Zealand trip and I think this year's National Cricket League will be crucial for the players because we are trying many things to make it worthy including the financial encouragement."

Rafiqul also believed that the team needs a permanent coach. "A permanent coach is a very important part but as well as that, we have to find the right man for the job and in that case you have to compromise on time."

Responding to allegations that Ashraful had attitude problems during the Twenty20 and did not listen to anybody during the tour, Rabeed Imam, Bangladesh's media manager, told Cricinfo: "Ashraful is a proactive skipper and he takes initiatives. He is confident enough to take decisions he feels are right and I don't see any justifiable reason why some people should be critical of that. He's also the senior-most pro in the side and has more experience at this level than any other player in the Twenty 20 team.

"He has excellent working relationship with the coach, coaching staff and selectors and they can vouch for that. The players also find him easily approachable as most are his age or near about."

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