Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has won the toss and decided to bat first against Pakistan in the all-important encounter in Asia cup 2018 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday (Sep 26).

According to Mashrafe, Shanto is not playing. Soumya is coming back. Apu is not playing, and Rubel is back. And big loss that Shkaib is not playing. He's fractured his finger. Mominul is also in. Fans have been supporting us.

The winner of this match will place India in the grand finale in two days’ time which will be played in Dubai.

Bangladesh: Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mominul Haque, Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mehidy Hasan, Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman

Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Imam Ul Haq, Babar Azam, Sarfraz Ahmed (c, wk), Shoaib Malik, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Junaid Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi

BDST: 1730 HRS, SEP 26, 2018
AP