Tigers promise to fight hard in final today

Bangladesh will play Sri Lanka in the final of the seven-match Tri-nation ODI series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium of Mirpur in the today (Saturday), reports UNB.

The final match of the series will begin at 12pm (Bangladesh time).

The Tigers' captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza expected from his boys to play the final as that strongly as Sri Lanka played against them on Thursday, for a befitting reply to the 10-wickets loss against the visitors.

"We hope that tomorrow [Saturday] they will come face us strongly, and we can also show them a strong reply in return," the skipper said during a press conference on Friday, ahead of the series final.

Despite he has grief for the only and a huge 10-wicket margin loss in the series against Sri Lanka in their last match, Mashrafe wants to remain positive in this regard as he said, "An accident happened, which is good. It will give us the feel of what we can do during a bad time. We want to remain positive. What I want to say is that we did not come up with strong reply when Sri Lanka played aggressive cricket yesterday."

The captain suggested his boys to take lesson from that big loss, which was an accident as he thought, and made a call to come up for a strong reply with competitive spirit when they will play the final against Sri Lanka's strong brand of aggressive cricket.