After losing the toss in two consecutive matches, the luck of the toss helped the Tigers in the third match. Captain Shakib Al Hasan won the toss and decided to bat first in the third match of the three-match T20I series against Ireland. The match starts at 2 pm on Friday (March 31) at the Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong.

Bangladesh made a couple of changes in the XI of the third match. Rishad Hossain made his debut. The 20-year-old leg-spinner is Bangladesh's 80th cricketer in this edition.

Besides, left-handed pacer Shariful Islam got a chance in the XI for the first time after the match against India in the last World Cup. Mustafizur Rahman and Mehdi Hasan Miraj are absent from the XI of the last match.

Bangladesh XI: Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Liton Kumar Das, Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Shamim Hossain, Shariful Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Roni Talukder, Tawhid Hriday.

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