Visiting New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first in the first Test at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, on a fine sunny Wednesday morning.
Two Tests and three One Day International matches to be played between Bangladesh and the visitors.
The newly-laid pitch is expected to be dry and favour slower bowlers but there is said to be a chance of rain interruption later in the afternoon.
Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Anamul Haque, 3 Marshall Ayub, 4 Mominul Haque, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), 6 Shakib Al Hasan, 7 Nasir Hossain, 8 Sohag Gazi, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Robiul Islam, 11 Rubel Hossain
New Zealand: 1 Peter Fulton, 2 Hamish Rutherford, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Brendon McCullum (capt), 6 Corey Anderson 7 BJ Watling (wk), 8 Doug Bracewell, 9 Ish Sodhi, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Bruce Martin
