The Stars of Pakistan travel to Dhaka this weekend to square off against the host nation Tigers of Bangladesh for the first of three ODI matches in Dhaka on Saturday.
Both teams are coming off admirable performances from this year's Cricket World Cup in their rearview mirror. The Pakistanis rebounded from an 0-2 start in group play to make the quarterfinals (a usual occurrence for them). Bangladesh also made it into the quarters, for the first time in their history.
Besides general bragging rights and the reality of competition, the entity most readily at stake here in this series is Pakistan's international ranking. Should they be swept at Bangladesh's hands, they will drop below the West Indies into 8th in the world standings. They'll obviously try to avoid that fate from the first bowl.
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Bangladesh Squad (subject to change)
Mashrafe Mortaza*, Mushfiqur Rahim*†, Anamul Haque, Arafat Sunny, Imrul Kayes, Jubair Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mominul Haque, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal
Pakistan squad (subject to change)
Misbah-ul-Haq*, Ahmed Shehzad, Bilawal Bhatti, Ehsan Adil, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Irfan, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shahid Afridi, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Khan, Umar Akmal†, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Younis Khan
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