Bangladesh win toss, choose to bat

Sport Desk: Bangladesh won toss and chose to bat first against touring Afghanistan in the first of a three-match One Day International (ODI) series in Dhaka today (Sunday).

The match began at 2:30 at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur.

This is Afghanistan`s first-ever bilateral series against Bangladesh.
 

Bangladesh Team 

1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Imrul Kayes, 4 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Shakib Al Hasan, 7 Sabbir Rahman, 8 Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Taijul Islam, 11 Rubel Hossain.

Afghanistan Team

1 Mohammad Shahzad (wk), 2 Shabir Noor, 3 Rahmat Shah, 4 Asghar Stanikzai (capt), 5 Hashmatullah Shahidi, 6 Najibullah Zadran, 7 Mohammad Nabi, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Mirwais Ashraf, 10 Dawlat Zadran, 11 Naveen-ul-Haq.

risingbd/DHAKA/Sept 25, 2016/Augustin Sujan