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Summary The day/night match will start at 12:30 pm at Pakistan Standard Time.
Pakistan will take on Bangladesh in the first match of the three-match ODI series today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur.Bangladesh will take to the field toady with a very poor record against Pakistan in the limited version of cricket. The hosts have only one win against the visitors in their last 26 ODI encounters since 1986. Bangladesh beat Pakistan by 82 runs in the group match of the ICC Cricket World Cup in Northampton, England in 1999.Pakistan played their last full three-match ODI series in Bangladesh in 2001-2002 and made a clean sweep with a 3-0 victory over Bangladesh.In the last encounter, Pakistan crushed Bangladesh by 139 runs in the Asia Cup last year in Dambulla, Sri Lanka.Pakistan earlier started their campaign against Bangladesh with a thumping 50-run win in the only T20 match on Tuesday.Pakistan will play the second ODI against Bangladesh on December 3 at the SBNS in Dhaka and the third and last ODI on Dec 6 at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong under the floodlight, before the two-match Test series that will begin in Chittagong on Dec 9.
