Nidahas Trophy: Bangladesh batting against India

Sports Desk: Bangladesh are batting first against India in their first game of the Nidahas Trophy 2018 at the R Premadasa Stadium of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

The match started at 7:30 pm on Thursday (BST).

It is the first match for the Tigers. But India are facing their second match in the series as they suffered a five-wicket loss to the host Sri Lanka in their opening fixture on Tuesday.

On Thursday, India skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bowl first.
 

The trophy, which was last held in 1998, then a 50-over affair, returns after a period over almost 20 years. It is being organised to mark the 70 years of Sri Lankan independence and this time, it will be a T20I tri-series.

Across seven games, the three teams will battle for the title which starts from March 6 (Tuesday) and the final will be held on March 18 (Sunday). All the games will be played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

Bangladesh (Playing XI): Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mahmudullah(c), Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Liton Das, Sabbir Rahman, Mehidy Hasan, Nazmul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik(w), Washington Sundar, Vijay Shankar, Jaydev Unadkat, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shardul Thakur

 

risingbd/Dhaka/March 08, 2018/A K Azad