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Dhaka, Mar 6 : Quite incredible that we are having a match after that armageddon. What's more incredible is to see that not a single soul has left the stadium. Dhoni said that a shorter game favours the team batting second.

Pitch Report: 'Looking at the outfield, you wouldn't think there was rain here a couple of hours ago. It is a very, very good wicket. Even bit of grass covering, nice and hard and it is a very good batting track,' reckon Russel Arnold and Matthew Hayden.

Teams:

Bangladesh (Playing XI): Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Nasir Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza(c), Abu Hider, Al-Amin Hossain, Taskin Ahmed

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni(w/c), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ashish Nehra, Jasprit Bumrah

Mortaza: 'We wanted to field as well, but now we don't have any choice, we need to bat well. The ball can do its bit early on, but we will have to deal with the swing in the first 2-3 overs. The crowd has been supporting us. We have two changes, Nasir Hossain and Abu Haider Rony are in.'

Dhoni: 'We will bowl first. It's a shortened game. So I feel it is a bit of an advantage batting second because it is a 15-over game. This team is quite settled. So we have the same team that played Sri Lanka.'

India have won the toss and have opted to field

The captains are walking out for the toss.

Heavy downpour accompanied by thundershowers threatened to play spoilsport in the final of the Asia Cup T20 between Bangladesh and India.

The much hyped grand finale saw an anti-climax of sorts when there was a slight drizzle in the beginning with groundsmen covering the pitch area.

However just as they had removed the covers, there was sudden thunderstorm, which saw the TV crew commentators and players sprinting to the confines of the shade with the heavy pitch cover being blown away.

The stadium plunged to darkness as the lights went off.

Shere-e-Bangla Stadium has brilliant drainage facilities that one witnessed during 2014 World T20 final, which started 45 minutes post scheduled time but the groundsmen had prepared the ground.