BD-Afghan 1st T20I today

Sports Reporter :
Bangladesh Cricket team will take on Afghanistan Cricket team in their first Twenty20 International (T20I) match at Sylhat International Cricket Stadium today. The match will start at 6.00pm (Bangladesh Standard Time). Private satellite sports channel T Sports and private satellite channel GTV will telecast the game live.
Before today’s encounter, Bangladesh and Afghanistan faced each other in the nine occasions. Of them, Bangladesh registered three victories, while Afghanistan won six matches. But Bangladesh posted two victories out of the last five matches between Bangladesh and Afghanistan
Captain of Bangladesh T20I Cricket team Shakib Al Hasan said to the newsmen on Thursday, ” You can reveal any team as the favourites, but we want to win the two clashes. We played well in the last two series at home venue. Afghanistan definitely a good team. We shall try to keep our performance to win against our opponents,”
Shakib said, ” Every series is challenging. Specially in T20I format, the challenge is very much big. Because, all the participating teams have same opportunity to win. I think there are no strong or no weak team in T20I format. Any team can beat any team in T20I match. It is enjoyable for us to take the challenge. We defeated England by 3-0 in a T20I series recently. But we lost to Ireland in a match few months ago.”
Hasan said, ” I think we play well as team when we think less about our opponents.”
Captain of Afghanistan T20I Cricket team Rashid Khan said, “We shall play against them in the forthcoming Asia Cup and also ICC World Cup. We know about them. I think the series will be competitive and the spectators will enjoy the matches.”
Squads:
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (Captain), Litton Das, Rony Talukdar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Rishad Hossain and Afif Hossain
Afghanistan : Rashid Khan (Captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Shahzad, Ibrahim Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Sediq Atal, Karim Janat, Azmatullah Omarzai, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Wafadar Momand, Farid Ahmad Malik, Noor Ahmad and Mujeeb Ur Rahman.