Tigers face off India Sunday

Bangladesh are set to start their India tour by taking on the hosts in the first of three-match T20 series on Sunday at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

The match is scheduled to start at 7.30pm.

Bangladesh seemed to be in pain because of Shakib Al Hasan’s issue.

Shakib was banned for two years, with one year of that suspended after he accepted three charges of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
Bangladesh will also miss the service of Tamim Iqbal and Seam bowling all-rounder Saifuddin, but their absence was not shocking. Tamim skipped the tour as he and his wife is expecting their second baby while Saifuddin’s absence is injury related.

The three-match T20 series is indeed the both side’s reparations for 2020 October’s Men’s T20 World Cup.

That Bangladesh is yet to learn the art of T20 cricket is evidenced in the stats. The Tigers played eight T20 Internationals against India and lost all of them.

But, they have something to cherish despite their poor T20 record. It will be just the second time the two sides have met on Indian soil in the short format, following India’s dramatic single run victory in Bangalore during the group stages of the 2016 World Twenty20.

India is currently fifth ranked team in T20 cricket while Bangladesh currently sits in ninth.

Bangladesh squad

Mahmudullah (captain), Liton Das, Abu Hider, Afif Hossain, Al-Amin Hossain, Mossadek Hossain, Aminul Islam, Shafiul Islam, Taijul Islam, Mohammad Mithun, Mohammad Naim, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mustafizur Rahman, Soumya Sarkar, Arafat Sunny.

Dhaka/AKA