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BCB HP Camp begins today without head coach

The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s High Performance (HP) Camp for 2016-17 is set to begin Sunday at the National Cricket Academy in Mirpur without the Australian head coach appointed by the board specifically for the task.
Local coach Najmul Abedin Fahim and trainer Corey Booking will lead the camp as Simon Helmot, who was appointed as the head coach of BCB HP in June, has not yet arrived in the country.
Helmot is said to be in the Caribbean currently, where he is coach of the Trinidad and Tobago team.
The selected cricketers comprise three top-order batsmen, six middle-order batsmen, four spin bowlers, three all-rounders, seven pace bowlers and two wicket keepers.
The 25 selected cricketers are: Shadman Islam, Mehedy Hassan Maruf and Abdul Majid (top-order batsmen), Mehedy Hassan Miraz, Mohammad Saif Hasan, Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Mohammad Al-Amin Jr, Tasamul Haque Rubel and Salman Hossain Emon (middle order batsman), Sanjamul Islam, Nur Hossain Munna, Tanvir Haider Khan and Saqlain Sajib (spin bowler), Mehedy Hassan, Mohammad Saif Uddin and Alauddin Babu (all-rounder), Mohammad Ashikuzzaman, Mehedy Hasan Rana, Shuvashis Roy, Noor Alam Saddam, Abu Hider Rony, Dewan Shabbir Ahmed and Ebadot Hossain Chowdhury (pace bowler), Irfan Shukkur and Zakir Hasan (wicket-keeper).