Rangpur Riders captain Mashrafe Mortaza decided to field in the 7th Match of the BPL T20 series at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
He followed the trend of the three previous captains who also decided to bowl first after winning the toss in a day game; all of them went on to win as well.
Pitches have been slow in the afternoon matches, prompting the use of plenty of spin in the first 10 overs. Rangpur have dropped Adam Lyth and Rubel Hossain, replacing them with allrounders Samiullah Shenwari and Ziaur Rahman.
Tanbir Hayder, meanwhile, was included in the Chittagong Vikings line-up, in place of Suhrawadi Shuvo.
Rangpur Riders: 1 Jonathan Charles, 2 Mohammad Mithun, 3 Samiullah Shenwari, 4 Shahriar Nafees, 5 Ravi Bopara, 6 Thisara Perera, 7 Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), 8 Ziaur Rahman, 9 Sohag Gazi, 10 Nazmul Islam, 11 Lasith Malinga
Chittagong Vikings: 1 Luke Ronchi, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Dilshan Munaweera, 4 Anamul Haque, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt.), 6 Luis Reece, 7 Sikandar Raza, 8 Tanbir Hayder, 9 Sunzamul Islam, 10 Subashis Roy, 11 Taskin Ahmed