Dhaka: High-flying Bangladesh take on visiting Pakistan in the only Twenty20 match scheduled to be held on Friday at the Sheer-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

Private satellite channel Gazi TV will telecast the match live that kicks off at 6:30pm.

Bangladesh will take to the field today with a upper hand as they have already completed whitewash against Pakistan in the three-match ODI series, although the record said Bangladesh lost all the last seven matches against Pakistan.

Meanwhile, batsman Litton Das and left-arm fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman, both uncapped, have been included in the Bangladesh squad for the only T20 international against Pakistan. They have replaced Mominul Haque and Rubel Hossain - who has been rested - in the team that won the ODI series.

The Tigers fans again expect explosive batting display from their heroes Tamim Iqbal, Mushffiqur Rahim and Soumya Sarkar in the T20 match.

The visitors are among the most successful T20 sides while Bangladesh are 12th in terms of wins, but on current form the home team is the favourite going into the only Twenty20 international in Mirpur.  

Tigers, however, have not played a T20 for more than a year. Their only match in this format after the World T20 at home was washed out in the West Indies in August last year.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has not staged a domestic T20 tournament since December 2013 either, so the players will need to adapt their ODI confidence and skills to the shorter format.

Pakistan have won the most T20 internationals. Shahid Afridi's side have T20 match-winners like Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Sohail Tanvir and Ahmed Shehzad. These players appear in domestic T20 tournaments around the world. Shehzad, Afridi and Tanvir are only part of the T20 side, while Gul and Ajmal have struggled so far in Bangladesh.

Pakistan may have won 50 out of 85 T20s, while Bangladesh only have 11 wins in 41 games, but the number the visitors will want to improve is their zero victories on this tour so far.

After the lone T20 match the two side then move to Khulna to play the first Test of two-match Test series scheduled to be held on 28 April to 2 May in Khulna.

TEAMS

Bangladesh (probable): Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mahmudullah, Litton Das, Rony Talukdar, Mushfiqur Rahim (wicket keeper), Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza (captain), Arafat Sunny, Taskin Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman.

Pakistan (probable): Sarfraz Ahmed (wicket keeper), Ahmed Shehzad, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Rizwan, Mukhtar Ahmed, Shahid Afridi (captain), Saad Nasim, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal and Umar Gul.