Bangladesh choose to bat against Afghanistan in 1st T20

Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bat first against Afghanistan in the first match of two-match T20I series at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday. 

Bangladesh won the ODI series 2-1 as Afghanistan prevented a whitewash by winning the third and final ODI by seven wickets in Chattogram, on Monday. 

Afghanistan were dominant all the way through, they first bundled out the home team to 192 in 46.5 overs and then chased down the target in just 40.1 overs. Although they lost the ODI series, they earned ten valuable World Cup Super League points with the recent result.

Coming to the T20I record, the visiting team have won two of their last five games, whereas the hosts lost all five of their previous matches so far. 

Bangladesh: Mohammad Naim, Liton Das, Afif Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Naeem Ahmed

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Hazratullah Zazai, Najibullah Zadran, Usman Ghani, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Janat, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, Qais Ahmed