Originally scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM local time, match officials conducted two separate pitch and boundary inspections after wet patches remained along the outfield. Following the final inspection at 9:45 AM, umpires officially reduced the contest to 13 overs per side. At the toss conducted at 9:55 AM, Pakistan captain Sahibzada Farhan won the coin toss and elected to field first, forcing Bangladesh skipper Litton Das to bat on a pitch that had remained under covers for over four days. Despite it being a working weekday, expatriate Bangladeshi fans turned out in significant numbers to support the team. Bangladesh named a spin-heavy playing XI featuring four specialist spinners—Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, and Mosaddek Hossain—alongside seamers Mustafizur Rahman and Shoriful Islam.