Wounding Bangladesh hope for respite in T20Is

It's all one-sided contests, so far in this tour for  Bangladesh, as the South African team have been too good a team to pose a challenge in their own backyard. With already Tests and ODIS swept clean by the hosts, now they take on the under-performing visitors in two T20Is Series which is set to start in Bloemfontein on Thursday.

No one has expected, Bangladesh to win a test in South Africa, but many expected a fightback, but it isn't produced. Coming into the ODI Series with their recent growth in international Cricket, South Africa could have thought about a contest between the teams, but it barely happened as Visitors continued, their slump form into the ODIs as well.

More than the defeats, it has been the way they occurred with losing by a large margin is an issue with Bangladesh. There have been some individual performance but they can't come close to the South African collective effort as a team. With adding to those above, the bowling of the hosts has been a second string attack which the visitors couldn't tackle.

However, if, there is a format that anything could happen, is the T20I format and Bangladesh need a win to take some sort of pride of the tour.

South Africa

            Faf Du Plessis's injury means, he is out of the T20Is, alongside to it Proteas rested their triumph bowlers, Rabada and Imran Tahir to give younger bowlers ago. While they need to decide whether to play with only spinner or couple.

Playing XI: Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock (wk), AB de Villiers (C), JP Duminy, David Miller, F Behardien,  Andile Phehlukwayo, Wiaan Mulder, Dane Paterson, D Pretorius, AM Phangiso/T Shamsi

Bangladesh

              The Visitors have a newly appointed captain Shakib for T20Is after Mortaza decided to step down from T20Is, earlier in the year. So with Mortaza out of T20Is, Bangladesh might pounder between Shaiful Islam and Nasir Hossain for Mortaza spot.    

Playing XI : Imrul Kayes, Soumya Sarkar,Liton Das,  Shakib Al Hasan (C), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mahmudullah, Sabbir Rahman, Mehidy Hasan,Nasir Hossain/ Shafiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed

Pitch and Conditions

             There's only one T20I played in Bloemfontein till date, and South Africa won with ease against Zimbabwe. While, the surface has been a good flat track for the batsman - to play strokes so, the T20I after a long time promises a run-fest.