DHAKA: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the men’s team for the World Twenty20, where no Bangladeshi player was listed.

The list of team was made considering the performance in the last ICC World T20, held in Bangladesh and Indian Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni will lead the team.

Host Bangladesh reached to the super 10 in spite of starting with a defeat to an unranked Hong Kong, but defeated Nepal and Afghanistan. But there they were unable to achieve a single win.

Selection panel chairman and member of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees, David Boon, said that it was a very difficult task for the panel to pick a team of 11 from the exciting players who featured in this tournament.

He added the team, selected by a group of experts, is aimed at being suited for Bangladeshi conditions, on the basis of performances at the just-concluded World T20 tournament. Statistics were used but were not the sole basis for selections.

As the selection criteria for the Team of the Tournament are the performances of players in the conditions during the ICC World Twenty20 2014, some of the best players in world cricket had to be left out of the team, David Boon added.

The team includes four players from India, two each from South Africa and the West Indies, and one each from Australia, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka.

Full squad:

Rohit Sharma (India), Stephan Myburgh (Netherlands), Virat Kohli (India), J.P. Duminy (South Africa), Glenn Maxwell (Australia), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India -- captain), Darren Sammy (West Indies), Ravichandran Ashwin (India), Dale Steyn (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies) and Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka); 12th Player: Krishmar Santokie (West Indies).

BDST: 1544 HRS, APR 07, 2014