All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was passed fit after an eye problem to be picked in the Bangladesh squad for the second and final Test against Sri Lanka starting on Saturday in Chittagong.
Bangladesh lost the opening Test by 328 runs.
Shakib has been out of the national team since November when he represented the side during last year’s ODI World Cup in India. He hit 82 and took two wickets to beat Sri Lanka in the league-phase clash of the World Cup. But he broke his left index finger, and a vision problem was revealed.
A retinal condition in the left eye had kept Shakib out of the ODI and T20I series against Sri Lanka. He had visited an eye specialist in Singapore at the start of the year to address the issue.
Shakib has been playing for the last two months in the Bangladesh and Dhaka Premier Leagues with success. His last Test appearance though was in April 2023 against Ireland in Mirpur.
Batter Towhid Hridoy has been dropped in order to accommodate Shakib.
Also out is pacer Mushfik Hasan, who has picked up a left ankle injury and has been replaced by Hasan Mahmud.
