BANGLADESH have the opportunity to record a limited-overs clean sweep over Pakistan and inflict more misery on the beleaguered visitors in the one-off Twenty20 in Mirpur.Mashrafe Mortaza’s team are on a high after wrapping up a 3-0 one-day international series victory at the same venue last Wednesday.

The opposite is true of their opponents, who can only hope a switch in formats, and some personnel with Shahid Afridi back as their 20-over leader, somehow does the trick today.
Pakistan’s former World Cup-winning captain Imran Khan is far from optimistic about a short-term revival, however, citing “nepotism” at board level as a root cause of problems.
Imran is aghast at Pakistan’s low ebb, eighth in the International Cricket Council’s ODI rankings after a fifth successive series defeat.
“Pakistan’s cricket will not improve as long as there are people in the cricket board who have come through nepotism and without any merit,” said the great all-rounder.
“Sadly, the people in our cricket board don’t have any knowledge of cricket. I never thought Pakistan would lose to Bangladesh 3-0 and drop to number eight in the ODI Rankings.”
Mashrafe, in contrast, is delighted at Bangladesh’s revival.
“From a professional point of view, the happiness comes from seeing the team come out of a tough situation,” he said, after Pakistan had seemed set for a much bigger total only to collapse batting first in the final ODI.
“It is natural for the captain to get credit when the team does well. (But) the players have been wonderful … if we keep performing in this manner, we can continue to go up.”
Bangladesh have decided to rest strike bowler Rubel Hossain before the forthcoming Test series, bringing uncapped pair Mustafizur Rahman and Litton Das into a 14-man squad.