Dhaka: With the fresh memory of whitewashing the visitors in the three-match ODI series, Bangladesh will face Zimbabwe in the first T20I of the two-match series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Friday.  

The battle between the two teams in the shortest format of cricket will start at 5:00pm local time.  

Earlier on Wednesday, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 14-member T20I squad with five changes from the Tigers’ last T20I squad that played against South Africa in July.  

Kamrul Islam Rabbi has got the first call to make his international debut.  

Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Rubel Hossain, Rony Talukdar and Sohagh Gazi have been excluded from the T20I squad.  

Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah Riyad, Al-Amin Hossain, Anamul Haque Bijoy and Kamrul Islam Rabbi were included to fill these vacant positions.  

Bangladesh selectors kept 14 players in the T20I squad from the squad of the 3rd ODI against Zimbabwe.  

In the latest ICC T20 ranking, Bangladesh are holding the 10th slot while Zimbabwe are in the 14th.

Bangladesh beat the Zimbabweans two times in their three T20 meetings.  

Bangladesh 14 squad: Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (captain), Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Liton Kumar Das, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah Riyad, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Arafat Sunny, Jubair Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Al-Amin Hossain, Anamul Haque and Kamrul Islam Rabbi.