The opening of Bangladesh Tamim Iqbal has been ruled out from their two-test series in New Zealand in January due to a thumb injury, the Cricket Crisbuzz website reported on Tuesday.
The report quoted the Head of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Derashish Chowdhury said Tamim needed a month’s rest to recover from the injury he took last month.
Tamim, who chose to leave the Twenty20 World Cup this year with a lack of time the game when he recovered from a knee injury last week being ruled out from the series of two Bangladesh test houses against Pakistan, which began on Friday, due to injury.
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“He met a doctor and they had advised him to take a one-month break even though he would not need any operation,” Chowdhury told Crisbuzz.
“Then, he lost the New Zealand tour.” Reuters has contacted a confirmation of BCB who was looking for.
Bangladesh will play the first test against New Zealand in the oval bay on Mount Maunganui from January 1 followed by the second match at the Oval Hagley in Christchurch from January 9.
The two tests will be part of the world test championship team 2021-23 cycles.