DHAKA: Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar paved the ground for Bangladesh to make a quality target for India in their first ODI of the 3-match series at Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in city’s Mirpur on Thursday.

After the end of 24-over, Bangladesh scored 147 for four wickets. Tamim and Soumya took 60 and 54 respectively before going back to pavilion.

Soumya Sarkar led the attack to blunt Indian bowling attack. He hit 54-run off 40-ball before returning to pavilion in the 14th over.

The match was interrupted by the rain for around an hour.

Shakib Al Hasan and Sabbir Rahman are on the crease with 5 and 0 runs.

Ashwin took three wickets while Soumya was run out by Raina.

Earlier, Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza won the toss and elected to bat first. The match kicked off at 3:00pm local time.

Bangladesh have one win against India in a bilateral series, in Dhaka in 2004. Both teams have played three series in 2004, 2007 and 2014. India have sealed all series.

Litton Das and Mustafizur Rahman have made their debut, becoming the 117th and 118th players to play ODIs for Bangladesh.

Bangladesh have left out Rony Talukdar, Mominul Haque and Arafat Sunny from their squad.

India have left out Axar Patel, Stuart Binny, Ambati Rayudu and Dhawal Kulkarni, continuing with the three-seamer-two-spinner combination.

This series is more important for the hosts. Tigers need two wins out of the six matches at home, against India and South Africa, to stay in the top eight of the ICC ODI rankings for the Champions Trophy qualification.


Bangladesh Team:

Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Mushfiqur Rahim†, Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza (C), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed

India Team:

Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (C&WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma

BDST: 1748 HRS, JUN 18, 2015
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** Tigers facing Indian bowlers