Dhaka, Nov. 27 -- Bangladesh won the toss and chose to field first in the opening T20I against Ireland on Thursday in Chattogram.

Bangladesh won the two-match Test series before this T20I series.

This series is Bangladesh's chance to fine-tune their T20I set-up ahead of the World Cup next year, which will take place in India.

Bangladesh XI: Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Parvez Hossain Emon, Saif Hassan, Litton Das (capt & wk), Towhid Hridoy, Jaker Ali, Tanzim Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam

Ireland XI: Paul Stirling (capt), Tim Tector, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker (wk), Curtis Campher, George Dockrell, Gareth Delany, Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy, Matthew Humphreys, Josh Little.

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