Tigers out to salvage pride

Bangladesh will aim to avoid a series whitewash when they face Australia in the third and final T20 International on Sunday at the Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Cricket Stadium in Chattogram, with the visitors having already wrapped up the three-match series 2-0.
The hosts would continue to miss the services of the regular captain Litton Das, who was ruled out of the final game on Friday night. 
Litton suffered a left calf strain during the third and final One Day International against the same opposition earlier in Mirpur.
The newly-appointed vice-captain Towhid Hridoy filled in the captaincy role and is expected to continue in the third match.
However, Litton's absence was felt in both games, as batting frailties hurt the host.
They were all out for 131 runs in the first match after they failed to balance the right tempo on a slowish wicket. 
In the second match, they fell short by seven runs while chasing a record target of 197 runs, despite having taken control in the first half of the innings.
Parvez Hossain Emon, who scored 36 from 22, admitted that they lacked a big innings, which cost them the game.
Four of the first five batters crossed the 30-run mark, but none could make it past 42. 
Emon rued the absence of Litton, who generally plays the role of holding the innings together.
On the bowling front, Bangladesh made changes in both pace and spin departments in the last game. 
Taskin Ahmed, meanwhile, is yet to feature.
Debutant Abdul Gaffar Saqlain played in both matches but was expensive on both occasions.
Bangladesh are likely to persist with the same top-order for the decider, with Saif Hassan and Tanzid Hasan Tamim opening ahead of Soumya Sarkar, Emon and Hridoy, while Rishad Hossain or Taskin could come in alongside Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman and Nahid Rana as the side weighs up its bowling balance. 
The Chattogram surface is expected to continue favouring batters with little turn on offer, though pacers found some extra carry in the second match, and rain remains a lingering concern heading into the final game.
For Australia, the series has to be already counted as a great start in their new journey towards the next ICC T20 World Cup in 2028 which they would co-host alongside neighbours New Zealand. The Aussies crashed out of the group stage in the last edition.
While some key players were missing, the likes of Cooper Connolly and Matthew Renshaw stepped up to seize the opportunities presented to them.
Connolly scored an important 47 in the first match, the best of his short T20I career.
The 30-year-old Renshaw, on the other hand, led Australia's way to a big score with his unbeaten 89 in the second match.
Renshaw, who made his Test debut in 2016, has returned to international cricket after a long gap with the limited-over formats.
After the second match, he said that it would boost his confidence that he'd have the T20s in him.
However, Renshaw, the bowler, has also caused much trouble throughout the tour.
He picked up two in the first T20I to take his tally to eight.
Before this tour, he had a solitary international wicket.
With the series already sealed, Australia could finally hand debuts to Josh Philippe and Matt Kuhnemann, the two squad members yet to feature on tour.
The win also stretches Australia's head-to-head edge over Bangladesh in the format to 7-4 coming into this game, underlining just how steep the hosts' task of avoiding a clean sweep has become.