Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie decided to bat against Bangladesh in the one-off Test in Dhaka with as many as six Test debutants in his XI on Tuesday.
He said it looked like a pretty good pitch to bat on whereas Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan said he wanted his fast bowlers to take advantage of the slight presence of grass on the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium pitch.
Ireland's Test debutants were Murray Commins, Harry Tector, Curtis Campher, Lorcan Tucker, Graham Hume and Ben White, whereas Peter Moor was making his Ireland debut, having already played eight Tests for Zimbabwe. For the legspinner White, it was a first-class debut too.
Bangladesh had six specialist bowlers by picking Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam and Khaled Ahmed in the pace attack, and Shakib Al Hasan, Taijul Islam and Mehidy Hasan Miraz as the spinners.
This is the first Test between the two sides, and Ireland's first Test after more than three years.
Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 3 Mominul Haque, 4 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 5 Mushfiqur Rahim, 6 Litton Das (wk), 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Taijul Islam, 9 Khaled Ahmed, 10 Shoriful Islam, 11 Ebadot Hossain
Ireland: 1 Murray Commins, 2 James McCollum, 3 Andy Balbirnie, 4 Harry Tector, 5 PJ Moor, 6 Curtis Campher, 7 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 8 Mark Adair, 9 Andy McBrine, 10 Graham Hume, 11 Ben White
Source: ESPNcricinfo