DHAKA: Bangladesh are facing Afghanistan blowers in the teams’ first ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Pool A match at Manuka Oval at Canberra on Wednesday morning.

The match kicked off at 9:30am.

Till filling of the report, Bangladesh have scored 19 for no loss at the end of overs-5.

Anamul Haque opened the Bangladesh innings by facing Afghanistan’s Hamid Hassan. He scored 5 runs off 16 balls. 

Tamim Iqbal is assisting Anamul Haque on the other end of the crease. He has scored 11 runs off 18 balls.
Earlier, Tigers’ captain Mashrafe Mortaza won toss and decided to bat.
Bangladesh left out Nasir Hossain, Taijul Islam, Arafat Sunny and Al-Amin while Dawlat Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Usman Ghani, Nasir Jamal are not playing for Afghanistan
After winning the toss, Tigers skipper Mashrafe Mortaza said; "Looks like a good track. We can put up a good total."
Squads
 
Bangladesh

Tamim Iqbal, Anamul Haque, Mominul Haque, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim†, Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza*, Soumya Sarkar, Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed

Afghanistan

Afsar Zazai†, Javed Ahmadi, Nawroz Mangal, Asghar Stanikzai, Samiullah Shenwari, Mohammad Nabi*, Najibullah Zadran, Mirwais Ashraf, Aftab Alam, Shapoor Zadran, Hamid Hassan

** Bangladesh decide to bat first

BDST: 1001 HRS, FEB 18, 2015