Bangladesh bowl first, Sunny in for Taskin

Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza
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NN Sports Desk: Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza won the toss and opted to bowl first against visiting India in the third and final ODI at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in the capital on Wednesday. Bangladesh are leading the three-match series 2-0 and looking for a Banglawash over their mighty opponents. Left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny made his first appearances of the series and replaced the fast bowler Taskin Ahmed, who suffered a side strain during the second ODI. India made two changes, with Stuart Binny replacing Ravindra Jadeja in an allrounder-for-allrounder swap and Umesh Yadav coming into the pace attack in place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Ambati Rayudu kept his place in the middle order, ahead of Ajinkya Rahane. Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Litton Das (wk), 4 Mushfiqur Rahim, 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Sabbir Rahman, 7 Nasir Hossain, 8 Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), 9 Rubel Hossain, 10 Mustafizur Rahman, 11 Arafat Sunny. India: 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Ambati Rayudu, 5 Suresh Raina 6 MS Dhoni (capt &wk), 7 Stuart Binny, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Axar Patel, 10 Umesh Yadav, 11 Dhawal Kulkarni.

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