Hello and welcome to Sportstar’s highlights of the first T20I between Bangladesh and Netherlands, held at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on August 30.TOSSBangladesh won the toss and elected to bowl.PREVIEWBangladesh and the Netherlands will face off in a three-match T20 International series, starting on Saturday, at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium.The two teams will be locking horns in a bilateral series for the first time since 2012, when the two-match affair ended in a 1-1 stalemate. The series will provide crucial match practice for Bangladesh ahead of the Asia Cup next month, while the Dutch will cherish the opportunity to prepare ahead of next year’s T20 World Cup, to be held in India and Sri Lanka.The Tigers are flying high into this series, having won back-to-back T20I series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan under the leadership of Litton Das. Meanwhile, Netherlands too has had its fair share of success of late, having topped the table in the Europe Region qualifier event for the T20 World Cup next year.THE SQUADSBangladesh: Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Parvez Hossain Emon, Litton Das (wk) (c), Towhid Hridoy, Jaker Ali, Shamim Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Mohammad Saifuddin, Nasum Ahmed, Nurul Hasan, Saif Hassan, Taskin Ahmed.Netherlands: Max O’Dowd, Vikramjit Singh, Scott Edwards (wk) (c), Noah Croes, Cedric de Lange, Teja Nidamanuru, Sikander Zulfiqar, Sebastiaan Braat, Aryan Dutt, Daniel Doram, Paul van Meekeren, Ben Fletcher, Kyle Klein, Tim Pringle, Shariz Ahmad.Published on Aug 30, 2025
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