What's your T20 team for Bangladesh?

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I will say it again that Bangladesh is dreadful in T20 format. Since we excel in ODI, the expectation was to do same in T20 as they're much closer than Test cricket. But absence of power hitters, get carried away with both bowling and batting at times, keeping senior players fixed in T20 squad, not selecting right players are few factors that I think keeping us from success.

We definitely need couple of clean hitters, few anchor roles as batsman, defensive bowling with T20 techniques (yorker, slower, slow bouncer etc.) and some good all-rounders to score 160+ on regular basis.

Keeping these in mind, I would go with the followings:

1. Tamim Iqbal (anchor-role)
2. Mehedi Maruf (power hitter)
3. Soumya Sarkar (clean hitter)
4. Liton Das (wk + keeping the run-rate moving)
5. Mosaddek Hossain (all-rounder)
6. Sabbir Rahman (power hitter)
7. Mahmudullah Riyad (C + all-rounder/defensive bowler)
8. Mehedi Hasan (all-rounder/attacking bowler)
9. Md. Saifuddin (defensive bowler, not sure)
10. Rubel Hossain (attacking bowler)
11. Mustafizur Rahman (defensive bowler)

*No. 4, 5, 6 & 7 batsman can interchange the order depending on match situation.

Reserve: Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim/Anamul Haque, Subhasis Roy (or any other defensive pacer)

Amazingly, I didn't have a spot for Shakib. If his bowling was like before; I would have picked him. He never seemed a T20 batsman to me. Nor does Mushy and moreover, his keeping skills are always questionable, so he is out. Tamim should be out as well if he fails for some matches. All senior players should earn T20 spot before each series/tournament.

While Sabbir, Mosa and Soumya seem to be our future, I would really like to give Maruf a shot in T20. Liton/Anamul should be given a chance for keeper+batsman. If Mehedi doesn't suit T20 role, Shakib can come in. Rubel is replacing Mash. We need 2 defensive pacemen with 1 attacking one. On slow pitches, you can substitute one pacer with a spinner.

Finally, I choose Mullah over Shakib for captaining our T20 team. He seems a better batsman in this format and lot more confident.