Will Joy, Raja be left on the periphery?
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) injected fresh blood into the squad for the Tigers' first World Test Championship fixture against Pakistan in the form of batter Mahmudul Hasan Joy and pacer Rejaur Rahman Raja.
The pertinent question now is whether these two be given fair opportunities or if they will be left to rot in the periphery.
If history is anything to go by, the latter could be a more likely answer and the case of Yasir Ali Rabbi is one that could shed some light in this regard.
For over two years, even as Bangladesh made a number of changes to their squads across the formats, the only consistent was Yasir Ali on the sidelines.
Since earning a maiden call-up to the national team in 2019, the right-handed middle-order batter has seen as many as three Test debutants, six new entrants to the ODI squad and a total of 10 players get T20I caps.
He probably thought his fate would change when the team was purported to be undergoing a massive overhaul after the T20 World Cup debacle. Even drills during practice sessions suggested that Yasir Ali was being moulded into a sought-after big-hitter for the Tigers' T20 side.
But the 25-year-old still remains uncapped across formats.
The fear of seeing the two new Test entrants endure a similarly endless wait on the sidelines is amplified considering their experience, or rather the lack thereof, in longer-version cricket. Both Raja and Joy have played only 16 first-class matches between them.
It should not require pointing out that the players have only been included in the squad since the likes of Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Taskin Ahmed and Shoriful Islam have been left out due to injuries.
Although Joy secured a nod from the national selectors hot on the heels of two successive first-class tons while representing Chattogram Division in the ongoing National Cricket League (NCL), his background is as modest as Raja's, who took 12 wickets at an average of 16.91 in the NCL.
That begs the question whether their inclusion is another typical spur-of-the-moment decision by the BCB, taken only to show that the revamping process is a serious one.
That could be the case as the board pulled the same trick when they called up Parvez Hossain Emon and Kamrul Islam all of a sudden before the final Pakistan T20I, only to have them warm the bench on matchday.
Even if Raja and Joy make their way into the eleven, what happens if the youngsters with just a handful of domestic games under their belt crumble under pressure against the experienced lot of Shaheen Shah Afridi and Hasan Ali and the wiles of visiting captain Babar Azam?
Will it be another case like Saif Hassan's, who despite never exhibiting T20-like batting nor being around the T20 set up, was fielded for only two T20Is before being cast aside after his predictable failure?
All that is left to be seen is whether Joy and Raja have only been included to prolong the national team waiting list alongside Yasir Ali or if the BCB actually has a long-term plan regarding any of them.