Bangladesh ODI captain Tamim Iqbal and batting coach Jamie Siddons left the capital for West Indies Monday (Jun 6) night by a Qatar Airways flight. Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Yasir Ali are also part of the batch, the second to leave for the Tigers' tour of the West Indies. Bangladesh will have a full tour including two Tests, three ODI and three T201s in that order, with the first Test starting on June 16. The Test series will be part of the 2021-2023 ICC World Test Championship. Spinner Taijul Islam and pacer Mustafizur Rahman will fly for West Indies on Wednesday (June 8) while Bangladesh Test captain Shakib Al Hasan, who left Dhaka on Sunday for USA will join the team on June 10. Earlier in the first batch on Friday, fresh off the Test captaincy Mominul Haque, batsman Najmul Hossain Shanto, and pacemen Ebadot Hossain and Khaled Ahmed left Dhaka. They are already in the Caribbean.     Also Read: Mushfiqur, Liton grind Sri Lanka after Tamim’s ton Fast bowling coach Allan Donald will join the team in West Indies from London while Head Coach Russell Domingo and fielding coach Shane McDermott will also join the team from Cape Town.      On their last tour of the West Indies in 2018, Bangladesh clinched ODI and T20 series, but lost the Test series.  

Jamie Siddons, the batting coach of Bangladesh, believes Shakib Al Hasan would be a great captain for Bangladesh in Test cricket.  When Shakib became the captain of Bangladesh for the first time in 2009 in West Indies after then-captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza was injured, Siddons was the head coach of the Tigers.  And Bangladesh are now all set to tour West Indies again with Shakib taking the role of the Test captain. The former head coach and the current batting coach of Bangladesh said he found at least two positive things.  Read: Shakib Al Hasan's Captaincy Record in Test Cricket: An Overview “There are at least two sides of benefits with Shakib being the captain,” Siddons said on Saturday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. “Shakib is a regular performer, and now he is the captain. So it will be easy for him to lead the team. And the other thing is it will be easy for Mominul (Haque) to focus on his batting.” Shakib has previously led Bangladesh in 85 matches and won 33 of them.  At Test level he has led the team on 14 occasions, winning 3 of them. In the upcoming series against West Indies, Bangladesh will play two Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is.