BCB “willing” to reduce touring party

By Bipin Dani  

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is likely to send a team of 25 players and 17 support staff members for its tour of Sri Lanka, if a compromise is reached on quarantine conditions.  
According to highly placed sources in the BCB, the plan is to send a chartered Sri Lankan airlines flight with 42 passengers from Dhaka to Colombo.   

The 17-member support staff will include two selectors -- Minhajul Abedin and Habibul Bashar -- one of the directors Jalal Younis as team manager, a doctor, media manager and other coaching staff.   

In a letter received by SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket), the BCB has also sought clarification on Shakib ul-Hasan or any other player or BCB official who may be sent later by a commercial flight.   
In case, ul-Hasan is sent (by a commercial flight) for the last two Tests when his ICC ban would end, he may need to go for a longer quarantine.   

“It is not feasible to send only one player later on a chartered flight and if Shakib does not want to undergo a long quarantine, he may not be willing to go,” a source, said exclusively.   
This quarantine dispute is likely to be resolved at the soonest.   

BCB is yet to announce the team but will likely retain Mominul Haque as its Test captain.