Yasir Ali makes debut as Bangladesh opt to bat against Pakistan
Sports Desk
Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque won the toss and elected to bat first in the opening match in two-match Test series against Pakistan at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Friday.
Yasir Ali has been handed his test debut.
Bangladesh came off the series with eight straight T20 defeats, including a 3-0 loss against Pakistan.But Bangladesh’s Test record in this year also is not convincing enough. Early in the year, they lost two Tests against West Indies at home. Both of the Tests, they lost from a favorable position. In Sri Lanka, the Tigers lost two-match series by 1-0 before securing a 220-run win in Zimbabwe.
Bangladesh: 1 Saif Hassan, 2 Shadman Islam 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 4 Mominul Haque (capt), 5 Mushfiqur Rahim, 6 Yasir Ali, 7 Liton Das (wk), 8 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 9 Taijul Islam, 10 Abu Jayed, 11 Ebadot Hossain
Pakistan: 1 Abdullah Shafique, 2 Abid Ali, 3 Azhar Ali 4 Babar Azam (capt), 5 Fawad Alam, 6 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 7 Faheem Ashraf, 8 Nauman Ali, 9 Hasan Ali, 10 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 11 Sajid Khan
