Netherlands captain Scott Edwards has won the toss and elected to bowl first against Bangladesh in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.

“We are bowling first because this ground hasn’t hosted a match for a long time (10 years). We are confident of our performance against Bangladesh. It is important to give our best in today’s game,” he said on Star Sports.

Najmul Hossain Shanto is not worried about losing the toss. “The wicket looks good and we are ready to bat.

It is important to execute our plans against the Netherlands. The players are looking excited for this contest,” he said.

Bangladesh: 1 Tanzid Hasan, 2 Litton Das (wk), 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), 4 Towhid Hridoy, 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Mahmudullah, 7 Jaker Ali, 8 Rishad Hossain, 9 Tanzim Hasan, 10 Taskin Ahmed, 11 Mustafizur Rahman

Netherlands: 1 Michael Levitt, 2 Max O'Dowd, 3 Vikramjit Singh, 4 Sybrand Engelbrecht, 5 Scott Edwards (capt, wk), 6 Bas de Leede, 7 Logan van Beek, 8 Tim Pringle, 9 Aryan Dutt, 10 Paul van Meekeren , 11 Vivian Kingma