Home ›› Sports

Tigers to bat first in first T20I

Staff Correspondent
03 Aug 2021 17:59:08 | Update: 03 Aug 2021 20:13:42
Tigers to bat first in first T20I
BCB Photo

Bangladesh will bat first in their first twenty20 international against Australia at Mirpur as Aussie skipper Matthew Wade won the toss and elected to field first.

Bangladesh have brought in a couple of changes from their last T20I vs Zimbabwe as Mustafizur Rahman and Shak Mahedi Hasan returned to the XI in place of Taskin Ahmed and Mohammad Saifuddin.

The Aussies have also shaken it up as they have three changes- Ashton Turner, Ashton Agar and Mitchell Starc coming in to replace Aaron Finch, Jason Behrendorff and Mitchell Swepson.

Bangladesh have faced Australia four times in T20Is and lost all of them.

This is the first of the five-match T20I series.

Bangladesh XI: Mohammad Naim Sheikh, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah Riyad (c), Nurul Hasan Sohan (wk), Afif Hossain, Shamim Hossain, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam

Australia XI: Matthee Wade (c), Josh Philippe, Mitchell Marsh, Moises Henriques, Alex Carey (wk), Ashton Turner, Ashton Agar, Mitchell Starc, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

×