Uncapped 17-year-old bowling all-rounder Farjana Easmin has been included in Bangladesh’s squad for the Ladies’s Asia Cup 2026 in Dubai, UAE, and the twentieth Asian Video games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, after left-arm pacer Fariha Islam Trishna was dominated out with a thigh harm.
Trishna, 23, has been recognized with a Grade II tear in her proper thigh following an MRI and would require round 4 to 6 weeks to get well.
Farjana, a right-arm seamer, has been on the nationwide radar for a while and impressed throughout Bangladesh’s latest intra-squad matches.
“I’ve seen her throughout her stint with me within the Rising squad. She has a pure slower ball alongside together with her variations, whereas she will additionally contribute with the bat down the order,” Nasiruddin Faruque, Bangladesh ladies’s batting coach and the previous head coach of the Bangladesh Rising squad, informed Cricbuzz on Tuesday.
The Bangladesh staff will depart for Dubai on Wednesday afternoon (August 26).
SQUAD: Nigar Sultana Joty (Captain), Nahida Akter (Vice Captain), Dilara Akter, Juairiya Ferdous, Sharmin Akter Supta, Sarmin Sultana, Sobhana Mostary, Shorna Akter, Ritu Moni, Fahima Khatun, Rabeya Khan, Marufa Akter, Sultana Khatun, Shanjida Akther Maghla, Farjana Easmin.
