IND vs BAN: India Playing XI vs Bangladesh- 1st Test

IND vs BAN: India Playing XI vs Bangladesh- 1st Test.  After a rare ODI series win against India, Bangladesh is all geared up to take the Test challenge in the 2 Tests series. The first Test will be played at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram, between 14-18 December from 9:30 am onwards.

The visitors will look forward to keeping their unbeaten record against Bangladesh in the Tests. After 11 matches between the sides in the longest format, the visitors are yet to lose a Test match against Bangladesh. The visitors have won 9 Tests and drawn 2 against Bangladesh.

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Both teams will be playing the longest format against each other after a gap of 3 years. The last time both teams played a day and night Test was at Eden Gardens in 2019. India won the Test by an innings and 46 runs. Batting first, Bangladesh were restricted to 106 after a five-for from Ishant Sharma. Virat Kohli’s 136 led India to declare the innings on 347 for the loss of 9 wickets. Umesh Yadav took 5 wickets in the second innings to register an easy victory for India.

India are currently placed fourth in the ICC Test Championship points table, with 6 wins, 4 losses, and 2 draws. They must win 5 of their last 6 Tests to qualify for the Final. On the other hand, Bangladesh are at the bottom of the table with just 1 win in 10 Tests of this cycle. The hosts have lost 4 of their last 5 Tests and have drawn one.

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India have played 2 Tests here, and they have won 1 match and drew the next. Bangladesh have played 22 Tests at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium and they have won just 2 matches while losing 13 matches. The remaining 7 matches ended in a draw.

India last played a Test in the month of July against England (the 5th rescheduled Test). It will be a challenge for skipper KL Rahul to adjust his team to the 5-day format in the absence of Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, and Mohammed Shami. He will open the innings with Shubman Gill. Both openers are inexperienced having not played against Bangladesh.

While KL Rahul has played just 2 Tests this year, Shubman Gill has been part of just one. All eyes will be glued to vice-captain Cheteshwar Pujara, who had a mind-blowing county stint this year for Sussex. Cheteshwar Pujara scored 1094 runs in 8 matches at an average of 109.40 with 3 double hundreds and 2 hundred.

Virat Kohli will be eager to take the guard in the middle to keep his form running. After finishing as the Asia Cup’s second leading run-scorer, T20 World Cup’s leading run scorer, Virat Kohli scored a century in the last ODI against Bangladesh. Virat Kohli averaged above 78 against Bangladesh and has 2 centuries in the 5 innings.

Surprisingly, his last century of this format came against Bangladesh three years ago. Shreyas Iyer will likely play with Rishabh Pant in the middle order. The latter has been the visitors leading run scorer of this ICC Test Championship 2021-23 cycle. Rishabh Pant has 636 runs in 8 Tests at an average of 45.43.

The visitors will use Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, and Shardul Thakur as pacers. Though the trio hasn’t played much together, they will still pose a threat to the weak Bangladeshi side. Shardul Thakur has 11 wickets in 3 Tests played this year, including a career-best of 7 for 61. Umesh Yadav had taken 8 wickets in the last test played against Bangladesh.

Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel will be added as the spinners. Ravichandran Ashwin will have a huge responsibility on his shoulder in the absence of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami – India’s leading wicket-takers of the ICC WTC besides injured spinner Ravindra Jadeja. Team India would have to make is to choose one between Kuldeep Yadav and Shardul Thakur.

Navdeep Saini, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Jaydev Unadkat and Saurabh Kumar have been added to the Indian Test squad for the Bangladesh series, the BCCI confirmed on Sunday (December 11).

India made a roaring comeback in the third and final ODI by winning the match by 227 runs after losing the first two ODIs narrowly by 1 wicket and 5 runs respectively. Ishan Kishan’s maiden double ton and Virat Kohli’s 44th ODI ton designed a big win for the visitors. Ishan Kishan became the first cricketer ever to convert his maiden century into a double hundred.

Experienced pacer Jaydev Unadkat, who was recalled after a 12-year exile, is all set to join the squad on Tuesday. While he was supposed to leave for Chattogram, visa issues delayed his departure. Now, he will link up with the squad in Chattogram a day prior to the 1st Test. However, the delay means, he is unlikely to feature in the Chattogram Test.

IND vs BAN: India Playing XI vs Bangladesh- 1st Test

KL Rahul (C)

Senior Indian batter, KL Rahul made his Test debut for India in the Boxing-day Test match in Melbourne against Australia in 2014. Since then, he has delivered some excellent knocks with the bat for India in the longest format of the game. He averages around 35 after playing 43 Tests.

Rohit Sharma has a very cherishing Test career against his name so far as an opener in Tests but will probably miss the upcoming Test series against Bangladesh due to dislocated thumb injury suffered in the 2nd ODI. He averages around 46 after playing 45 Tests.

Shubman Gill

Shubman Gill has played 11 Tests and averages around 30. Shubman Gill has already scored 4 fifties but is yet to score a ton. He will open in absence of injured Rohit Sharma in the Tests against Bangladesh. He scored 259 runs in 3 Tests in his debut Test series in the 2020/21 Australia tour where his career-best 91 came in the historic Test win at Gabba in the 4 Test.

Cheteshwar Pujara

After scoring 720 runs in 8 innings of the county championship with an average of 120, Cheteshwar Pujara made selectors look at him and give him a call back to the national team for the remaining rescheduled 5th Test match against England. He was axed for the home Sri Lanka Test series for poor form.

He has amassed 6792 runs in 96 Tests averaging 43.82. The 34-year-old batter who debuted way back in 2010 in Tests may retire after playing 100 Tests in his career.

Virat Kohli

Nobody is unacquainted with Virat Kohli’s excellent Test career so far in which he has played 102 Test matches. Appearing in 171 innings of these 102 matches, he has scored 8074 runs with a batting average of 55.69 adding 27 centuries and 28 half-centuries to his name.

However, his last Test ton came in the 2019 Eden Gardens day-night Test against the same opponents Bangladesh.

Shreyas Iyer

Shreyas Iyer made his Test debut in the home series against New Zealand last year in November. Since then, he has played 5 Test matches for India and delivered some stellar performances in this period. Shreyas Iyer has been consistent with his bat in all formats of the game. He averages 46.89 and has 1 Test ton and 3 fifties beside his name.

Rishabh Pant

Rishabh Pant made his Test debut for India back in 2018 against England in Nottingham Test. Since then, he has impressed both fans and cricket experts with his improvement and amazing performances in the traditional format of the game.

Rishabh Pant has so far played 31 Test matches, appearing in 53 innings of these matches, he has scored 2123 runs with an appreciable average of 43.33 hitting 5 centuries and 10 half-centuries. Rishabh Pant has also improved his wicketkeeping skills with time which was the reason for the criticism he was facing.

Ravichandran Ashwin

Ravichandran Ashwin made his Test debut in 2011 under the leadership of former Indian skipper MS Dhoni against West Indies in Delhi Test. Since then, he has amazed everyone with his all-round performances in the longest format of the game.

Appearing in 162 innings of 86 Test matches, Ravichandran Ashwin has scalped 442 wickets with a good bowling average of 24.13 and an economy rate of 2.77. He has claimed five-wicket hauls 30 times in his Test career. With the bat, he has scored 2931 runs averaging 26.89 with 5 tons and 12 fifties.

Umesh Yadav

Since then, Umesh Yadav has played 52 Tests and has had a chance to bowl in 102 innings. In his Test career, Umesh Yadav scalped 158 wickets with an average of 30.80 and an economy rate of 3.55 having three five-wicket hauls to his name.

Umesh Yadav, the 35-year-old pacer has played 52 Tests since debuting in the longest format in 2011. He has picked 158 scalps averaging 30.8 in his Test career. With age not on his side, he may retire from Tests, alongside pacer Ishant Sharma (34 years), keeper Wriddhiman Saha (38 years), and batter Ajinkya Rahane(34 years) who weren’t picked for the Bangladesh Tests.

Axar Patel

Axar Patel made his Test debut in February 2021, six years after playing his maiden limited-overs match for India, and starred so much so with the ball that he ended up picking 27 wickets from the 3 matches in the series. He took 4 five-wicket hauls as England lost the series 3-1.

England managed to win only the first Test match, which Axar Patel missed due to a knee injury. In his debut Test series, he finished behind Ravichandran Ashwin (32) in the leading wicket-takers list. In just 6 Tests, he has 39 scalps averaging a mere 12.43 which includes 1 four wickets and as many as 5 five-wicket hauls.

Kuldeep Yadav

His debut Test was way back in the 2016-17 Australia series and the last one came against England in 2021. Jaydev Unadkat has played a solitary Test in 2010 against Proteas and is recalled after a 12-year-old exile. Shardul Thakur has played 8 Tests and picked 27 scalps averaging 24.44. He had also scored 254 Test runs with 3 fifties in 8 Tests.

Mohammed Siraj

Pacer Mohammed Siraj, who debuted in the famous 2020-21 Australia tour has picked 40 scalps in only 13 Tests averaging 30.78. He picked 13 scalps in 3 Tests on his debut Australia tour and 18 scalps in 5 Tests on the England tour.

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