Mahmudullah dropped out, the new captain Liton in the last match

Sports Desk: The team management has confirmed that Mahmudullah Riyad, the regular captain of the team, will not be available in the last T20 of the New Zealand series due to injury. The BCB said in a statement on Thursday that Liton Kumar Das is making his debut as captain as Mahmudullah is not in Riyadh.

Mashrafe bin Murtaza has already retired from the T20 format. Shakib Al Hasan has taken leave from the ongoing New Zealand tour. Tamim Iqbal has returned to the country after the ODI series due to personal reasons. Mushfiqur Rahim is fighting back and finger injuries. Despite playing in the ODI series, he has not been able to play in the previous two T20s. There are fears about his game in this match too. Mahmudullah's injury has been added to this. He is suffering from a thigh injury.

The team management did not take the risk of playing him as he did not regain his fitness before the last T20. As a result, for the first time since 2006, the representatives of the red and green will come on the field without these 5 cricketers known as Panchpandav.

Mahmudullah is leading the Twenty20 cricket team of Bangladesh. Who will shoulder the new responsibility in his absence? With this, Liton is making his debut as the captain, leaving behind Mohammad Mithun and Soumya Sarkar. He will be seen tossing Liton with Kiwi captain Tim Southee in the final match of the tour on Thursday. The matter has been confirmed by the BCB.

Liton will be the seventh T20 captain of the Bangladesh team. All in all, he is getting a taste of captaincy as the 16th captain of the Bangladesh team. Although the New Zealand tour is not going well for Liton.

In the previous three ODIs and two T20s, that is, the last five matches of his game 19, 0, 21, 4 and 6, a total of 50 runs came from his bat. If Liton starts playing as captain today, the whole of Bangladesh will be looking at his leadership and his bat.