Bangladesh captain Liton Das won the toss and elected to bowl India at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka. The visiting team has decided to hand over its debut cap to young fast bowler Kuldeep Sen for the first match of the three ODI series on Sunday. Sen impressed many in IPL 2022 with his discipline and raw pace with the ball, which he continued in domestic cricket and carved a path for himself in international cricket.
India decided to go with four pace bowling options as Mohammed Siraj has been given a chance to lead the attack. While Shardul Thakur and Deepak Chahar have been included as fast bowling all-rounders to add depth to the Indian batting.
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Interestingly, KL Rahul has been chosen over Rishabh Pant as he has also been given the wicket-keeping role.
The series opener re-united Rohit, Shikhar Dhawan and Kohli as the top three. since 2019 World Cup, the trio has played just 12 ODIs together.
While Washington Sundar and Shahbaz Ahmed were chosen as the spin all-rounders as India relied heavily on their top five to set the stage for a big score.
Captain Rohit Sharma said that the ODI World Cup is still far away and the team wants to take it one match at a time.
“Honestly speaking, I was not sure. We would have bowled first if the pitch was showing some moisture. Few injuries and few issues, we have four all-rounders playing. Washington, Shardul, Shabaz, Deepak Chahar. Kuldeep Sen Making debut myself Shikhar and Virat up the order.KL Rahul will be wicketkeeping.We hardly played many matches in New Zealand but we fought well.Some guys batted really well.World cup is far away, We don’t want to look too far ahead. We want to focus on what is in hand and play accordingly,” Rohit said at the toss.
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Meanwhile, Bangladesh skipper Das believes that the team needs to follow process to get past a team like India.
“We’re going to bowl first. It looks like it might be sticky for the first ten overs, so we’re going to bowl first. Three fast bowlers and two spinners for us. We want to follow process and play well.” Want to play cricket,” Das said.
Bangladesh (Playing XI): Liton Das (c), Anamul Haque, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (w), Mahmudullah, Afif Hossain, Mehdi Hasan Miraj, Hasan Mahmood, Mustafizur Rahman, Ebadot Hossain
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Sen
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