Tigers hope for form reversal 

Bangladesh will take on the USA in their first World Cup warm-up match at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas on Tuesday, hoping for a drastic turnaround in form following their series loss against the same opposition in Houston.

The match will begin at 9:30pm Bangladesh Time. 

Having been the first-ever Test-playing nation to lose a series against the USA with successive losses in the first two matches, Bangladesh recorded their first win on US soil in the final T20I of the three-match series. The 10-wicket win in the dead rubber came against a USA side that had rested a number of their key players. 

The dominating win saw Mustafizur Rahman grab the limelight with record bowling figures of six for 10 while leg-spinner Rishad Hossain also impressed with the ball. 

At the top of the batting order, both openers – Tanzid Tamim and Soumya Sarkar – found some runs and the Tigers would be hoping to gain more momentum in the warm-up matches before the event proper. 

Rash shots had been a big part of Bangladesh's batting failure in the second T20I against the USA, where they made a meal out of an easy chase despite having wickets in hand.

The chairman of the selection panel, Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu, while talking to the media on Saturday, rued the fact that the team were not playing according to the match situation – a problem that has often remained evident in Tigers' T20I outings.

"We need to play according to the call of the hour. If we need to hit fours and sixes, we need to do that. And, if we see we need to play for singles with one or two boundaries here and there, we need to follow that. But, unfortunately, we are failing to do so," Lipu said.

Liton Das, who has been struggling to get runs in the white-ball formats for a while now, had returned to the lineup for the third T20I but did not get to bat while Jaker Ali's wicketkeeping has also come under the radar as Tigers look to gauge themselves ahead of the main event.

Bangladesh will play another warm-up against India on June 1 before they gear up to take on Sri Lanka on June 8 in Dallas.