India captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and elected to bat in the third T20I against Bangladesh in Hyderabad. India made one change to their playing XI with Ravi Bishnoi replacing seamer Arshdeep Singh while Bangladesh made two changes. However, there was no debut for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) pacer Harshit Rana, who was not available for selection as he did not travel with the team to Hyderabad. The BCCI on Saturday released a statement on Harshit’s availability and said that the pacer was ill and did not travel with the team from Delhi to Hyderabad.

“Mr Harshit Rana was unavailable for selection for the third T20I due to a viral infection and did not travel with the team to the stadium,” the BCCI said shortly after the toss.

Meanwhile, India have an unassailable 2-0 in the series after winning the first T20I in Gwalior by 7 wickets and the second in Delhi by 86 runs.

“Happy Dussehra to everyone and nice to see everyone on the ground even though we are 2-0 up. It’s important to maintain good habits, sometimes you can become complacent after a winning streak. We just want to give the person a lot of freedom.” “Looks like a good wicket and we said in the last game that we want to set a target and defend first,” Suryakumar said at the toss.

“I’m happy to bowl first, so it doesn’t matter. I want to take responsibility as a batting team – I hope they do something special today. Consistency is an area we need to improve. “I hope we will do something special in the entire 40 overs,” he added.

Teams: India: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Nitish Reddy, Hardik Pandya, Riyan Parag, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav.

Bangladesh: Parvez Hossain Emon, Litton Das (wk), Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Tanzid Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Rishad Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanzim Hasan Sakib.

(With PTI inputs)