Toss Ireland received the toss and selected to bowl towards Bangladesh
Ireland’s stand-in captain Paul Stirling determined to bowl first towards Bangladesh within the first T20I in Chattogram. He stated that their lack of awareness in regards to the circumstances prompted the choice. His counterpart Shakib Al Hasan stated he would have bowled first too, as they did not know what rating on that pitch can be.
The residence facet made one like-for-like change: they introduced in left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed instead of Tanvir Islam, who had made his worldwide debut within the third T20I towards England two weeks again.
However, Ireland needed to make a bunch of adjustments from their final T20I, which got here towards Zimbabwe in January. Stirling changed the rested Andrew Balbirnie each as captain and opener, whereas Lorcan Tucker, Gareth Delany, Craig Young and Graham Hume additionally got here into the XI to take the place of Stephen Doheny, Neil Rock and Barry McCarthy.
The sides had final met in a T20I in the course of the T20 World Cup in 2016, though that match was rained out.
Bangladesh: 1 Litton Das (wk), 2 Rony Talukdar, 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 4 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 5 Towhid Hridoy, 6 Shamim Hossain, 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Nasum Ahmed, 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Hasan Mahmud, 11 Mustafizur Rahman
Ireland: 1 Paul Stirling (capt), 2 Ross Adair, 3 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 4 Harry Tector, 5 Curtis Campher, 6 George Dockrell, 7 Gareth Delany, 8 Mark Adair, 9 Craig Young, 10 Graham Hume, 11 Ben White
Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com
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