DHAKA: Bangladesh on Tuesday included uncapped opening batsman
Munim Shahriar in their 14-man Twenty20 squad for a two-match series against Afghanistan next month.
Shahriar, 23, made 178 runs in six matches at a strike rate of 152 for Barishal in the recently-concluded
Bangladesh Premier League T20 tournament
.
Test batsman Yasir Ali, yet to make his white-ball debut, has been included. Liton Das, Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib Al Hasan all return after missing Bangladesh's last Twenty20 series against Pakistan in November.
Opener Najmaul Hossain and wicketkeeper-batsman Nurul Hasan were dropped.
Afghanistan will play three one-day internationals against Bangladesh starting on Wednesday in Chattogram before the Twenty20 in Mirpur on March 3 and 5.
Bangladesh: Mahmudullah Riyad (capt), Liton Das, Munim Shahriar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Yasir Ali, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Nasum Ahmed, Shohidul Islam, Mohammad Naim.
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