Bangladesh vs Ireland weather report, 2nd T20 (updated): Chattogram weather today on Wednesday, March 29

Bangladesh vs Ireland weather update: Bangladesh and Ireland will face off in the 2nd T20I in Chattogram on Thursday (March 29) as the hosts will aim to win the series after they won the first game by 22 runs (D/L method) with rain halting the match multiple times.

Bangladesh vs Ireland match details

Venue: Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram
Time: 1:30 PM
Umpires: Sharfuddoula, Tanvir Ahmed
Third Umpire: Masudur Rahman
Match Referee: David Boon

Chattogram weather today

After the match was delayed at the beginning of the day due to unexpected rain, all the covers are off now and the match will begin at 3:40 PM local time (3:10 PM IST). The match is now shortened to a 17-over-a-side contest with powerplay of five overs. Only two bowlers are allowed to bowl four overs.

Earlier as per weather forecast, the temperature on the day will fluctuate between 30^o to 22^o celsius. The probability of rain before the start of the match is 25% as per the latest weather update while the wind will blow at 15km/h from the south-southwest direction. There will be a cloud cover of just 18% on a sunny morning. During the match in the afternoon, there's next to no rain possibility while it will be quite humid in the middle at 67% with very little cloud cover.

Bangladesh are favourites to win the series as they earlier made lightwork of Ireland during the ODI series and also defeated World Champions England in the ODI series 3-0 to show their strength at home. Bangladesh batters are in hot form as they scored 207 runs in the first T20I as well.

Openers Rony Talukdar (67) and Litton Das (47) provided a firework-filled start after opting to bat first. Shamim Hossain (30) and Shakib Al Hasan (20) did some quick scoring down the order as well to show the side's middle- and lower-order strength.

Najmul Hossain has been good form as he scored runs at an average of 43.75 in the last 10 games while scoring 350 runs. Litton too has 337 runs to his name in as many games while spinner Hasan Mahmud has been in wicket-taking form with 12 wickets in 9 games.

Express pacer Taskin Ahmed took a career-best of 4/16 in the last game while taking three wickets in a single over when Ireland threatened to chase down a rain-truncated target. Taskin took three wickets in the last ODI against Ireland as well and has taken 16 wickets in the last 10 games.

For Ireland, Graham Hume was an exception among his misfiring bowlers in the team as he took eight wickets during the ODI series in three games and took a solitary wicket in the first T20 as well. Lorcan Tucker has been in good form with the bat as he has been averaging 38-plus in the last 10 games while Paul Stirling has been striking at a rate above 140.