Bangladesh national cricket team and Chandika Hathurusingha parted their ways in last year November. Bangladesh Cricket Board(BCB) has not hired a head coach since. As a result, the Tigers will be playing in the tri-nation series without any head coach.

Shakib Al Hasan and Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will face-off each other on 6th January in a warm-up match ahead of the tri-nation series. These two senior cricketers of the national side were supposed to 'coach' their team according to Papon's presser from a few days back.

Another warm-up match will take place on 9th January. Both the matches are supposed to start at 12pm but it may start 2 hours earlier due to the dew factor.

Shakib will be leading the team named BCB Red while Mash will be captaining the BCB Green. Although 11 men will be playing on each side, a total of 12 men have been named for each team.

Among the 32 players who were involved in the training camp 8 will not be participating in the game on Saturday including Mominul, Mosaddek, Taijul and Shafiul.

BCB Red : Tamim Iqbal, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Shakib Al Hasan(c), Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah Riyad, Sabbir Rahman, Sanjamul Islam, Ariful Haque, Taskin Ahmed, Abu Hider Rony, Rubel Hossain, Abul Hasan.