Ireland stand in captain Paul Stirling acknowledged that Bangladesh were “a very strong team”, but added that “he didn’t think it was going to be one-sided.”
Although he was expected to put up some resistance in Friday’s match.
“We have to think about team selection. We will have an unused pitch on Friday and hopefully we will be a step ahead. There is no dead-rubber as far as we are concerned and we want to…show that We’re serious.”
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (c), Liton Das, Ronnie Talukdar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Tauheed Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraj, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmood, Taskin Ahmed, Shorful Islam, Rishad Hossain, Zaker Ali
Ireland: Paul Stirling (c), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Barry McCarthy, Fionn Hand, Conor Olfert, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young
