Bangladesh's leading pacer Marufa Akter is set to miss the upcoming tour of New Zealand due to an ankle injury.

The Bangladesh women's team are scheduled to depart Dhaka on December 4 for a white-ball series comprising three ODIs and as many T20Is. Marufa is currently on four weeks of bed rest and is expected to start walking again in the first week of December.

"She is unavailable for the tour of New Zealand as we don't want to rush her considering she is one of our premier cricketers and we need to make sure she returns back after recovering fully," a top BCB official working closely with the board's women's unit told Cricbuzz.

"The pain recurred in her ankle and we don't want that to happen again and so decided to give her as much time as needed to make sure she can bowl without any kind of discomfort going forward, because without full recovery she will face difficulty to do bowling according to her strength," he said.

Marufa is suffering from bone erosion at the base of the fifth metatarsal bone in her right foot. The condition worsened recently and she is currently wearing an Aircast boot. Cricbuzz understands that she had received an injection ahead of the recent tour of Australia, but the treatment did not produce the expected response. This prompted the team management to rest her for the final game of the tour.