Ireland have won the toss and sent Bangladesh to field first in the first ODI of the three-match series at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

Bangladesh kept Mehedi Hasan Miraz out due to his injury, apart from leaving out Afif Hossain from the lineup.

Right-handed batter Towhid Hridoy made his ODI debut, and Yasir Ali Chowdhury was also named in the best eleven.

Bangladesh are looking forward to play their best cricket and keep the winning momentum going.

Bangladesh are high on confidence following their landmark T20 whitewash on world champions England and would start the Ireland series as hot favourtie.

According to stat, Ireland which came here for the first time since 2008 for a bilateral series are no match for the Tigers. Of the 10 ODI matches between the two sides, Bangladesh won seven and lost just two while other match ended in a no result.

Ireland won the maiden encounter between the two sides in 2007 ODI World Cup in Bridgetown, West Indies and last time they beat Bangladesh in 2010 at Belfast. They could never put up any resistance in the matches they played against Bangladesh in the last decade.

This will be the two sides’ first match in this decade, having faced off each other in last encounter in 2019 at Dublin, a match of a tri-nation tournament that Bangladesh won comfortably by six wickets. Bangladesh indeed won their only major trophy in the history by beating West Indies, the other team of that tri-nation tournament.

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal (c), Liton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Yasir Ali, Towhid Hridoy, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman

Ireland: Paul Stirling, Stephen Doheny, Gareth Delany, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker (wk), Stephen Doheny, George Dockrell, Curtis Campher, Andy McBrine, Mark Adair, Graham Hume

BDST: 1404 HRS, MAR 18, 2023
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