Sharjah – West Indies will be batting after Bangladesh won the toss and chose to field in their ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup on Friday at the Sharjah International Cricket Stadium in the United Arab Emirates.
Both teams made two changes: The Windies brought in Roston Chase for his Twenty20 International debut to replace opener Lendl Simmons and Jason Holder takes the place of leg-spinner Hayden Walsh Jr; and for Bangladesh, Nurul Hasan is not playing and Soumya Sarkar comes in, and Nasum Ahmed is not playing and Taskin Ahmed comes in.
Both teams lost their first two matches: For West Indies, England beat them by six wickets and South Africa brushed them aside by eight wickets; and for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka beat them by five wickets and England swept them aside by eight wickets.
Teams:
West Indies: Kieron Pollard (captain), Chris Gayle, Evin Lewis, Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran (wicketkeeper), Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Ravi Rampaul.
Bangladesh: Mahmudullah (captain), Mohammad Naim, Liton Das (wicketkeeper), Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Soumya Sarkar, Mahedi Hasan, Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman.
Umpires: Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Rod Tucker (Australia).
TV umpire: Paul Reiffel (Australia).
Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire: Marais Erasmus (South Africa).
(AR)
