Bangladesh bowl first; Sam Curran, Saqib Mahmood return for England

Bangladesh gained the toss and selected to bowl first vs England

Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh’s captain, gained the toss and selected to bowl first, in a bid for the victory that might lengthen their proud unbeaten run on dwelling soil, within the second ODI towards England at Mirpur.

No visiting 50-over facet has gained a sequence in Bangladesh’s circumstances since England themselves secured a 2-1 win in 2016-17, however Jos Buttler’s males are in a promising place now, because of Dawid Malan’s excellent unbeaten hundred in Wednesday’s first recreation.

And with that profitable chase in thoughts, Tamim opted to take first use of a pitch that he described as being “a bit soft compared to the first match, and a bit tackier”.

“Mirpur has been a fantastic ground for us but today’s a big game,” he stated, having named an unchanged XI. “We need to bat well today and repeat the same what we did in fielding and bowling.”

England have made two modifications to their XI, with Sam Curran returning to the line-up instead of Chris Woakes, and Saqib Mahmood swapping in for Jofra Archer in what can be his first England look since sustaining a stress fracture of the again final summer season.

“We were going to look to bat first,” Buttler stated. “It’s a bit tacky but the previous wicket was similar. Dawid played an outstanding innings and carried the batting on his own there. We have a lot of areas to improve on today.”

Bangladesh : 1 Tamim Iqbal (capt), 2 Litton Das, 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 4 Shakib Al Hasan, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 6 Mahmudullah, 7 Afif Hossain, 8 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Taijul Islam, 11 Mustafizur Rahman

England: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Phil Salt, 3 Dawid Malan, 4 James Vince, 5 Jos Buttler (capt, wk), 6 Will Jacks, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Sam Curran, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Saqib Mahmood, 11 Mark Wood

Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com

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