The five Test players -- Bashar, Khaled Mashud, Rajin Saleh, Shahriar Nafees and Mohammad Sharif -- will be replaced by Aftab Ahmed, Tamim Iqbal, Forhad Reza and Mahmudullah Riyad, who will play in the one-day series that begins on July 20. The four Colombo-bound players will leave Dhaka on July 14.

Tushar Imran was also in the list for only ODIs but the middle-order batsman had was flown to Sri Lanka earlier to play the ongoing third and final Test in Kandy.

Having amassed only 54 runs from five completed innings including the first innings of the Kandy Test, Bashar failed to make an impact on the selectors. This was the first time that the highest Test and one-day scorer for the Tigers was overlooked for an entire one-day series.

Bashar's exclusion was pending since his Test performance would have guaranteed him a place in the limited-overs outfit. But after his omission from the Twenty20 World Championship preliminary squad and this drop, it seems that Bashar's days in the shorter version are numbered.

Apart from Bashar, it was also a wake-up call for opener Nafees who has averaged 20.40 in the Test series and has frustrated the team think-tank with some reckless batting in crucial stages in the Tests.

For Saleh, who fought hard to score a fifty in the first Test, and Sharif, who played the second Test without any success, this would be yet another one-day disappointment. Interestingly, Mehrab Hossain has been retained in the team.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Rafique will also return home due to a family emergency and is expected to rejoin the team in Colombo later. The six players will leave Colombo on July 16.