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Pakistan tour of Bangladesh 2026 | LOL Classico | 3 ODIs | 11th March - 15th March | 1:45 pm IST

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Form guide

Bangladesh: WLWLL (Last five completed ODIs, most recent first)
Pakistan: WWWWL
 

 

In the spotlight: Litton Das & Shaheen Shah Afridi

 

 

Despite his woeful ODI form in the last two years, the selectors welcomed back Litton Das into the format, as they hope Litton's skills against spin will get them back on track. Litton will also retain the ODI gloves, with coach Phil Simmons hoping that batting at No. 5 will also provide him some rest after a wicketkeeping stint. The onus will now be on Litton to improve his ODI form that went kaput as far back as December 2023.

 

 

Shaheen Shah Afridi will be looking to make it a hat-trick of ODI series wins as captain after winning 2-1 and 2-0 against South Africa and Sri Lanka respectively in his first two series as skipper. Afridi though, arrived in Bangladesh after a pretty average T20 World Cup campaign, when he took eight wickets but conceded runs at 10.52 per over.

 

 

Team news: Plenty of debutants for Pakistan

Litton and Afif will bat in the middle order, while Bangladesh could just go with two pace options.

 

Bangladesh (probable XI): 1 Saif Hassan, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Towhid Hridoy, 4 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 5 Litton Das (wk), 6 Afif Hossain, 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz (capt), 8 Rishad Hossain, 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Tanvir Islam, 11 Mustafizur Rahman
 
 
ODI debutants Farhan, Shamyl and Sadaqat will form the top three, according to captain Afridi. Middle-order batter Abdul Samad is also set to make his debut.

 

Pakistan (probable XI): 1 Sahibzada Farhan, 2 Maaz Sadaqat, 3 Shamyl Hussain, 4 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 5 Salman Agha, 6 Hussain Talat, 7 Abdul Samad, 8 Faheem Ashraf, 9 Shaheen Shah Afridi (capt), 10 Mohammad Wasim, 11 Faisal Akram
 
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Pak should have sent babar and Ayub. Akaram is LA wrist spin a good pick,Maaz had good emerging asa cup but not that good bpl, Samad is like a big hitting finisher that Pak team is trying. Not sure if Pak team is taking this tour as prep. for the SA WC.

 

Shaheen should have rested , he gt injured in bbl and had to leave the league in between due to injury and made hasty recovery just before the T20i WC.

He has done this multiple times that after injury he has played cricket even when he has not fully recovered. For Wcs players do that but this is just a bilateral series 

 

Bd has not been good in Odis for sometime now , they should give some games to Nahid can be useful in SA,Only Santo, Sarkar and Dhar have odi avg above 30, but in the whole team no one has 35+ Odi avg.

 

Bd has been the most difficult tours in LOIs in recent times for the touring teams.

 

In last 5 years Bd has only lost 2 home Odi series out of 8. those were vs afgn and eng 

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Agha jee also gone to Rana. He's making them dance with his pace.

 

Shame shame puppy shame to Agha jee. He was caught at short leg in an ODI match.

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Just now, VT87 said:

Why did they drop Babar?  

 

He is the biggest softie. Even he wouldn't be able to do anything. Nahid was bowling thunderbolts.

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