T20 WC: Bangladesh choose to bowl first against India

Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bowl first against India in their fourth match of the T20 World Cup at the Adelaide Oval on Wednesday in a bid to stay alive in the semifinal race. 

A defeat in the match will mathematically eliminate Bangladesh from the semifinal race, which they target after fulfilling their initial goal by winning two matches. The magnitude of the two victories in a single T20 World Cup is huge, considering the fact that Bangladesh never won a match in the second round of the tournament since their victory against West Indies in the inaugural edition in 2007.

They firstly ended their win draught in this World Cup, beating Netherlands by 9 runs and then saw the other side of the coin by tasting a 104-run defeat to South Africa, which is their biggest ever T20 defeat in terms of runs.

However they bounced back nicely and held the nerve in a nerve-wrecking moment to beat familiar foes Zimbabwe by 3 runs in the last match.

Squads:

Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Afif Hossain, Mossadek Hossain, Liton Das, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Najmul Hossain, Nasum Ahmed and Soumya Sarkar.

India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh.