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UNB, Dhaka

Bangladesh faces hosts Pakistan in their last super four encounter of the Star Cricket Asia Cup Friday at the National Stadium in Karachi.

The day/night affair will commence at 4pm BST. Star Cricket and state-run BTV will telecast the match live.

This will be the 26th ODI encounter between these two subcontinent cricketing nations. Earlier in the previous 25 matches, Pakistan won 24 matches while Bangladesh won just one match back in the 1999 World Cup in England.

Bangladesh, which has already made their exit from the Asia Cup, faces Pakistan for the first time in the meet.

Ahead of the last super four encounter, the Tigers had their last session of practice at the National Bank of Pakistan ground today (Thursday).

They did their practice including running, stretching, fielding, bowling and nets from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm. They also had a swimming session.

Bangladesh Squad: Mohammad Ashraful (Captain), Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (Vice Captain), Mahmudullah Riyad, Tamim Iqbal, Alok Kapali, Abdur Razzak, Farhad Reza, Shahriar Nafees Ahmed, Nazim Uddin, Roqibul Hassan, Shahadat Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mehrab Hossain (Jr.), Dollar Mahmud and Musharraf Hossain