After four years, the Bangladesh national cricket team visited India to play a bilateral series. The Tigers will also play a three-match T20 series along with two Tests during this tour of about a month.
This tour starts with Test series. The Tigers will take the field in the first match of the two-match Test series. The two teams will meet at the M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Thursday. The game starts at 10 am Bangladesh time.
Bangladesh recently won the Test series against Pakistan by 2-0 on their soil. It was Bangladesh’s first Test win against Pakistan. Also the series win. Moreover, this is the first series win on Pakistani soil in any format.
Hathurusinghe’s army wants to retain the confidence of defeating Pakistan on their home soil in India as well. New history wants to be written on Indian soil too. He wants to do what has never happened before. He wants to get the taste of Test victory on Indian soil.
While India has a T20 win record against them on soil, there is no Test win record. However, Bangladesh could never beat India in a test even at home.
Despite playing a total of 13 Tests against India, the victory of the Tigers is elusive. Shamefully lost in 11 matches. The remaining two matches were drawn. Both of which are on the soil of Bangladesh. India played three matches and lost in all of them.
Despite not having a winning record against India, the Tigers have a history with them. Bangladesh got their first taste of playing against India in the pink-ball day-night Test. The match was held at the Eden Garden in Kolkata in 2019.
However, the Tigers will want to forget that match that was written in history. Muminul Haque’s team lost in that match by an innings and 46 runs. After that he played two more Tests against India but that was at home.
Mushfiqur Rahim is the highest run scorer for Bangladesh in the Test against India. He has 604 runs in 15 innings. Shakib Al Hasan is behind Mohammad Ashraful’s 386 runs. His run is 376. Sachin Tendulkar has the highest score of 820 runs for India.
Abu Zayed Raheer has the maximum 6 wickets for Bangladesh with the ball in hand. Ebadat Hossain and Taijul Islam have 4 wickets. Statistics show that the Tigers bowlers are not very successful with the ball against India.
Now Shakib-Mushfiqur will try their best to achieve that adorable achievement. Tigers are also confident.