The Tigers licking their wounds after four consecutive defeats will be hoping to draw inspiration from their last game at Rawalpindi that the home side won with only a ball to spare.

The day-night match will start at 2:45pm (BST) with Bangladesh Television and Ten Sports covering the proceedings from the troubled port city that was rocked by a bomb blast Friday, prompting the cancel lation of South Africa's tour next week.

The game will also mark the end of Bangladesh's 38-day tour of Pakistan. The home side has already whitewashed the tourists 3-0 in the Test series.

Bangladesh lost the first one-day match in Multan by 137 runs and then suffered a 74-run defeat in the second at Faisalabad. They lost the third match by 42 runs at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

But despite losing 42 matches on a trot, Bangladesh showed a marked improvement after the opening one-dayer at Multan and Khaled Mahmud's men came agonisingly close to end the jinx at Rawalpindi Thursday night, only to be denied by a rock-solid Yousuf Youhana.

The Pakistan middle-order batsman stood between Bangladesh and victory with a superb 94 not out in that cliffhanger.

After that heart-breaking five-wicket defeat, coach Dav Whatmore has decided to retain the same combination for the finale.

But Whatmore, whose experiment to open the innings with wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud backfired at Rawalpindi, has planned to revert to an orthodox combination. The opening stand has remained an Achilles heel for Bangladesh in the series, with the best partnership yielding as few as nine runs so far.

Makeshift Mashud scored a duck while opening the innings with Hannan, forced the Bangladesh think-tank to bring Habibul Bashar back into the opening slot.

"We couldn't field well in the last two overs, perhaps the players were never before in a situation like that but I am sure we will do better in the final match," said Bangladesh skipper Khaled Mahmud yesterday.

The 33-year-old also said his young team was on the right track despite the defeats.

"We have achieved our first target of raising the performance graph. We came lose to winning once in both the Test and one-day series. So, if we can win the last match it will be a big boost for us," Mahmud said.

Pakistan made one change for Sunday's match. Controversial pacer Junaid Zia, the 19-year-old son of Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Tauqir Zia, was dropped after the Rawalpindi match. The home side is likely to bring back Shabbir Ahmed to open the bowling with Umar Gul.