Shai Hope-led West In­dies, buoyed by their unas­sail­able 2-0 lead, will be push­ing for a dom­i­nant 3-0 se­ries white­wash against Bangladesh in the fi­nal T20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) at Chat­togram, Bangladesh, to­day. For the home side, the third match presents a fi­nal chance to sal­vage pride and find a much-need­ed vic­to­ry.

Hope ac­knowl­edged that while the se­ries win is a huge boost, their per­for­mance in the sec­ond T20I—where they col­lapsed af­ter a strong start and fin­ished with a "con­cerned" score of 149—was less than ide­al.

"Def­i­nite­ly con­cerned (about 149). When we spoke at the halfway stage, we thought 190 or even 200 was on. But cred­it to the bowlers, that they gave us that win... We will want to fin­ish 3-0 and go to NZ on a high," said Hope said in his post-match in­ter­view.

​Hope al­so high­light­ed a crit­i­cal area for im­prove­ment, field­ing.

"We al­ways speak about catch­es win match­es and we did our­selves no favour there. Again, cred­it to the bowlers. We have to look at that [dropped catch­es] for the next game," he said.

​The Caribbean side's suc­cess, de­spite the bat­ting and field­ing laps­es, has large­ly been dri­ven by their ex­cep­tion­al bowl­ing unit, per­fect­ly en­cap­su­lat­ed by "Play­er of the Match", Ro­mario Shep­herd. His all-round con­tri­bu­tion proved de­ci­sive in the last game.

In the post-match in­ter­view, Shep­herd said, "It was dif­fi­cult to hit in the back­end and it was im­por­tant to start well with the ball. We knew if we bowled well in the mid­dle, it would be tough at the end. It was a small to­tal so there was no room for er­rors."

​Shep­herd, how­ev­er, dis­missed the field­ing er­rors as sim­ply "part of the game," stress­ing the im­por­tance of im­me­di­ate fo­cus, say­ing, "We just had to think about the next ball. What is gone is gone. We just want­ed to fo­cus on the next ball."

​Hav­ing al­ready lost the se­ries, Bangladesh will be fight­ing des­per­ate­ly to avoid a clean sweep in front of their home fans. The squad, led by Lit­ton Das, will re­ly heav­i­ly on bats­men like Tanzid Hasan Tamim and Towhid Hri­doy, as well as their po­tent bowl­ing at­tack fea­tur­ing Mustafizur Rah­man and Rishad Hos­sain, to de­liv­er a win­ning per­for­mance.

First ball is at 8 am.

​Squads

Bangladesh Squad: Saif Has­san, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Lit­ton Das(w/c), Towhid Hri­doy, Jak­er Ali, Shamim Hos­sain, Rishad Hos­sain, Tanz­im Hasan Sak­ib, Na­sum Ahmed, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rah­man, Ma­he­di Hasan, Shori­ful Is­lam, Parvez Hos­sain Emon, Nu­rul Hasan.

West In­dies Squad: Bran­don King, Al­ick Athanaze, Shai Hope(w/c), Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Rov­man Pow­ell, Ja­son Hold­er, Ros­ton Chase, Ro­mario Shep­herd, Khary Pierre, Akeal Ho­sein, Jay­den Seales, Ra­mon Sim­monds, Ac­k­eem Au­guste, Amir Jan­goo, Gu­dakesh Motie.