And the Sylhet paceman would get down to business straightaway as he was included in the 12-member squad in place of Mashrafe for the first ODI on Wednesday. The Bangladesh think-tank on Monday named Manjarul Islam Rana as the super-sub. Left-arm paceman Syed Rasel would make his debut and Tushar Imran, fresh from a healthy tour of England with the A side, replaced Rajin Saleh at the top of the batting order. Abdur Razzak Raj was the other player to be dropped.

Mashrafee would miss at least tomorrow's first one-day international after complaining of a back pain. The 'Narail Express' picked an injury during his first over in Sunday's practice match at Moratuwa, which the Tigers lost by ten wickets. He was replaced by super-sub Abdur Razzak.

"He withdrew from the match yesterday," said team physio Paul Close Monday morning during training at the Nondescript Cricket ground.

"He is suffering from lower back pain and the assessment is that it's a muscle type injury. He made the right choice by pulling himself out of the game. It was not severe but enough to be worrying for him. But the move was a precautionary thing from his point of view," Close said.

"His condition is not better from yesterday and I think we are looking forward to get him back within four or five days.

"At this stage we are pretty confident that it is a muscle injury. Doing an X-ray or a scan won't give us any extra information," he added when asked whether the pacer needed any further investigation.

Although Close claimed that he had no information about Mashrafee carrying an injury to the tour, sources said that the fast bowler had complained about back pains after returning from the South African trip for the Afro-Asian Cup.

Close also reportedly snubbed Mashrafee on the eve of the practice match saying 'I'll talk after dinner' when he was approached.

Other players have also complained that they have not received 'proper' service from Close on different problems. It seems that the Australian physio has been ignoring his tasks and had he given not paid heed to Mashrafee's complaints, the team would have not lost their best bowler ahead of the series.

He has also been branded as 'idle' by the members of the team when he should have been the busiest one.

Tapash was ignored for the three one-dayers due to injury but coach Dav Whatmore confirmed that he has recovered.

"We are considering Tapash as an extra player, not a replacement. He had some problems but he is now okay," Whatmore said.

The 51-year-old Sri Lankan born Aussie, however, was dismissive about the big defeat to a local eleven on the previous day.

Lack of partnerships and poor batting in the slog overs apart from numerous dropped catches saw Bangladesh lose badly but Whatmore found something positive out of it.

"We batted pretty well to get to a total of 235. The second part of the game was not quite good and we did not bowl in the right spot. We learned a little about power-play," he said referring to Avishka Gunawardene and Upul Thiranga's hurricane centuries in an unbroken opening stand.

"The result was not good but it was a good exercise. We haven't played a game since the camp started seven or eight weeks ago. And also, with the new rules coming in, we needed to play that game."