1st ODI Pakistan Vs Bangladesh at Lahore 2008 Preview Plus Live Sopcast Streaming

After Australian team pulling back their hands from the tour to Pakistan ,Bangladesh finds it right to test their skills against Pakistan which is looking in good touch too . This tour is like a compensation one for Pakistan but cant be taken lightly as Bangladesh is one team which is popular due to capabilites to pull upset with big bang. Mohammad Ashraful took looking confident over his team to give good moments to their supporters all over thw world. It will be interesting how bangladesh will be using this fabulous chance to show themself against a quality oppostion.

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After Pakistan beaten Zimbabwe 5-0 in ODI Series they are looking much more confident and is looking like that they are not perfectly balanced and found one new star in their team, Nasir Jamshed who was success stories in Pakistan's experimental one-day line-up in the home series against Zimbabwe recently. He scored 197 runs in 5 ODis and showed the Selectors that they had made a good decision. He gave Selectors another Options for Opening slot which is the main problem for Pakistan from last few years.

For Bangladesh Ireland series was like a recovering one after getting fully shattered into pieces by South Africa .This recovery was done with the help of Shahriar Nafees who had three conscutive half-centuries back to back . He just backed his promotion to opening slot as he scored with an average of 102 and was awarded amn of the match.

Selecting team for the first ODI wont be tough for both the teams as Pakistan called back Umar Gul and Rao Iftikhar Anjum back in squad with some doubts about Umar gul who had ankle injury few days back but looking fit. Sohail Khan and Wahab Riaz who did good against Zimbabwe might get chance in upcoming ODI's of the sereis.

For Bangladesh Syed Rasel, the left-arm seamer, is the only addition to the 14-member squad who may be staying out of squad in first ODI .

Pitch Is likely to be good one and will be better in afternoon,as match is start at 3 pm the cpatain who wil win the toss will be electing batting first due to hot climate and due in the evening which may play good role in this match.

Teams Composition :

Bangladesh (likely) 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Shahriar Nafees, 3 Aftab Ahmed, 4 Mohammad Ashraful (capt), 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Raqibul Hasan, 7 Mahmudullah Riyad, 8 Mashrafe Mortaza, 9 Farhad Reza, 10 Dhiman Ghosh (wk), 11 Abdur Razzak.

Pakistan (likely) 1 Salman Butt, 2 Nasir Jamshed, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Mohammad Yousuf, 5 Shoaib Malik (capt), 6 Misbah-ul-Haq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Kamran Akmal (wk), 9 Rao Iftikhar, 10 Umar Gul, 11 Sohail Tanveer.

Umpires: Steve Bucknor, Aleem Dar

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