DHAKA: Bangladesh are batting first against host Sri Lanka in the first T20 international at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on Tuesday (April 4).
Tiger captain Mashrafe Mortaza won the toss and decided to bat first in the match.
This series against Sri Lanka will be Mashrafe’s last series as he has announced his retirement from T20Is.
Bangladesh’s all-rounder Saifuddin is making his T20 debut.
Sri Lanka Team
MDKJ Perera†, EMDY Munaweera, WU Tharanga*, CK Kapugedera, DAS Gunaratne, TAM Siriwardana, NLTC Perera, S Prasanna, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, JRMVB Sanjaya
Bangladesh Team
Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Mushfiqur Rahim†, Shakib Al Hasan, Mosaddek Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza*, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed
BDST: 2018 HRS, APR 04, 2017
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