The visitors will play their only warm-up game during the 31-day tour against the virtually second-string Bangladesh side, led by Rajin Saleh, at the newly-built Birshreshtha Ruhul Amin Stadium in Chittagong.

Both sides reached the port city yesterday morning but the local side had to fly with 12-men as Kapali did not fly due to his wrist injury during a practice session two weeks ago.

"Both the national team physio and local physio suggested me to take rest as I am still feeling a little bit of pain in the wrist. Actually it will not be impossible for me to play the match but I opted out as a precaution," Kapali told The Daily Star over phone.

The selectors picked an all-paced-up team including Tareq Aziz Khan, Mohammad Sharif, Shafaq Al Jabir, Shahjahan Selim and country's quickest bowler Shahadat Hossain Rajib as the Bangladesh think-tank has decided to offer a green-top track to Tatenda Taibu's men.

The focus will be on the right-arm pacer Sharif, who is going to play an international match after two years.

Apart from Rajin and Sharif, three more Test caps are in the squad with middle-order batsman Al Shahriar and Tushar Imran desperately trying to draw attention before the two Tests and five one-day internationals against Zimbabwe.

But it was learnt that the Faruque Ahmed-led selection committee was not eager to make too many changes like in the past but they are still looking forward to include another spinner when they will announce the 13-member squad for the first Test tomorrow.

The first Test of the two-match series begins at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong from January 6.

It is likely that left-arm spinner Enamul Haque will join Mohammad Rafique and all-rounder Mushfiqur Rahman will make way for the young spinner.

Any of the pace bowlers for the three-dayer could get a surprise call in the Test squad as back-up for tearaway Mashrafee-Bin-Mortuza and tested Tapash Baisya.

If that is the case, the axe will be on Talha Jubair and Nazmul Hossain, who played against India in the second Test. It also looks certain that Sharif will only be considered for the five-match limited-overs series.

Sources said there was a lot of discussion over former national captain Naimur Rahman who has been in outstanding form both with the bat and ball for his club Abahani in the ongoing Premier League.

With Bangladesh lacking a specialist off-spinner, Naimur is apparently high in the list for a recall after three years in the wilderness. But his reported reluctance to play for the national team unless given a long run is considered the major obstacle to an immediate call-up.