The Bangladesh Cricket Board Thursday announced the 16-member squad for the upcoming two-match Test series against India, leaving out pacer Shoriful Islam.
Shoriful is yet to recover from the groin injury he sustained after Bangladesh's first Test against Pakistan.
"Shoriful is yet to recover from his groin injury sufficiently and so we didn't take any risk with him," said BCB selection panel chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu.
The selection panel replaced Shoriful with the batter Jaker Ali Anik in a bid to bolster their batting strength.
Jaker's performance over the last two years with different age-level teams has played a key role in his selection for the first time in Test squad.
He is the only change from the squad which played against Pakistan.
The venues of the two Tests - Chennai and Kanpur - are traditionally spin favorable, something which prompted the selectors to add a batter instead of a pacer in the squad.
Bangladesh already have four spinners in the squad - Shakib al Hasan, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam and Nayeem Hasan.
Mominul Haque is also efficient as a spinner in a pitch suitable for spin bowling.
The Tigers will head to the series oozing with confidence following their historical series sweep against Pakistan recently.
Bangladesh have never beaten India in Test format as they lost 11 out of 13 matches between the two sides.
The remaining two Tests were drawn, largely due to inclement weather.
But this time they are upbeat to turn the tide like they did against Pakistan even though India have been invincible at home, not losing any Test series for more than 4,000 days.
The last time the Tigers toured India for a full series was in 2019, when they lost the three-match Twenty20 International series 2-1 and suffered a 2-0 defeat in the Test series as both the Tests ended inside three days.
Bangladesh team will fly off to India this Sunday to play two Tests, followed by three T20Is.
The tour will start with the first Test, beginning on September 19 in Chennai.
The selectors will name the T20 squad later.
Bangladesh squad: Nazmul Hossain Shanto (captain), Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Zakir Hasan, Shadman Islam, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib al Hasan, Liton Das, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Nayeem Hasan, Nahid Rana, Jaker Ali Anik, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed and Syed Khaled Ahmed.
