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Comilla Victorians choose to bowl first

Comilla Victorians captain Mohammad Nabi won the toss and opted to bowl first against Chittagong Vikings in the 5th match of the 5th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.

Vikings are playing their first game of the tournament while Comilla have the same XI that lost their opening game to Sylhet Sixers.

Chittagong, led by Misbah-ul-Haq, picked Luke Ronchi, Dilshan Munaweera, Luis Reece, the England allrounder, and Sikandar Raza, the in-form Zimbabwe allrounder, as their four overseas players.

Comilla's foreign line-up comprised Nabi and his Afghanistan team-mate Rashid Khan, along with West Indies' World T20 winners Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Bravo.

Comilla Victorians: 1 Liton Das (wk), 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Marlon Samuels, 4 Jos Buttler, 5 Alok Kapali, 6 Mohammad Nabi (capt), 7 Dwayne Bravo, 8 Mohammad Saifuddin, 9 Rashid Khan, 10 Arafat Sunny, 11 Al-Amin Hossain

Chittagong Vikings: 1 Anamul Haque, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Luke Ronchi, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Dilshan Munaweera, 6 Luis Reece, 7 Sikandar Raza, 8 Subashis Roy, 9 Suhrawadi Shuvo, 10 Sunzamul Islam, 11 Taskin Ahmed