Afghanistan choose to bat first against Bangladesh in 3rd ODI

Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat first against Bangladesh in the third and final ODI match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Tuesday. 

Bangladesh made three changes to the playing XI. Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud and Ebadot Hossain have been rested to pave way for Taskin Ahmed, Taijul Islam and Shoriful Islam.

The visitors who have already sealed the series, made two changes to their playing XI. The biggest of them is Rashid Khan being rested and Mohammad Saleem making his way out. Abdul Rahman and Zia-ur-Rehman replace them in the XI, making their ODI debuts.

Bangladesh lost the first match by 17 runs on DLS and suffered a crushing 142-run, their largest margin defeat by runs against Afghanistan, in the second game to loss their only third series at home since 2015. World champions England were the team to beat Bangladesh twice in this period.

But what the English couldn't do, Afghanistan looked on course to do that by inflicting a whitewash, something Bangladesh never experienced at home since 2012.

Last time Bangladesh lost all of the matches of the ODI series at home was back in 2012 against Pakistan. Later in 2014, they also suffered a 2-0 defeat to India in three-match series.