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Teams geared for the unfamiliar

FirstBD-SA women's ODI today

Sports Reporter
The Bangladesh women's cricket captain Salma Khatun was banking on her spinners ahead of today's first one-day international of the three-match series against the visiting South Africa women's cricket team at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. This series marks Bangladesh's first full series against a full-member side.
“Our spinners can play a big role through the series as we think that the pitch will behave the way it used to before. We don't know each other, so it will be a good game tomorrow (Thursday),” said Salma yesterday.
She said that her team is determined to play impressive cricket in the series, after which the teams will play three T20 international at the same venue. The weather however may play spoilsport in today's match.
“We are determined to put up a good played before so we don't really know what to expect. I think we should win the series in the end. We will assess tomorrow morning what would be a
show and we hope that we can utilise the advantage of playing at home,” she added.
South African skipper Mignon du Preez said that her team were looking forward to win the matches although the opponents are new to them.
“I am really looking forward to play this series in Bangladesh. We haven't good target,” said the 22-year old South African skipper.
South Africa will play the matches as part of their preparation for the ICC Women's World Twenty20 to be held in Sri Lanka in September-October.
“1 believe this series will give us the momentum for the World Cup. It is our final preparation and I think it will help us to get used to subcontinent pitches,” she said.
Du Preez however was little bothered
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with the spin threat from the home side.
"I know here there will be a lot of spinners in action but we have trained hard to play them and we are looking forward to play them,” said a confident du Preez.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 14-member team for the three-match ODI series against South Africa.