Dhaka: Bangladeshi selectors added a spinner and dropped two pacers from the squad that just played against India to face Zimbabwe in the first Test next week in Chittagong, a Bangladesh Cricket Board official said on Sunday.

Pacer Nazmul Hossain and Seamer Mushfiqur Rahman were left out in favour of left-hand spinner Enamul Haque in a 13-member squad led by Habibul Bashar, chief selector Faruque Ahmed said.

The first of two Tests starts on Thursday. It will be Zimbabwe?s first Test series since a boycott by most of their senior players in May.

the SQUAD

Habibul Bashar (captain), Khaled Mashud, Nafis Iqbal, Javed Omar, Mohammed Ashraful, Rajin Saleh, Aftab Ahmed, Mohammed Rafique, Enamul Haque, Tapash Baishya, Mashrafee Murtaza, Talha Zubair and Manjurul Islam Rana.