India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Rishabh Pant’s much-awaited return to Test cricket is among the big talking points as India face Bangladesh.
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: India return to Test cricket with a series at home against a buoyant Bangladesh side, who are riding high on their historic series win in Pakistan just before this. India have come up with a full-strength squad for the first Test, with all of their regular red-ball stars featuring in it.
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: India are returning to competitive cricket after more than a month by hosting Bangladesh for two Test matches and three T20Is. The Test series begins with the a match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai and it marks the beginning of the home run for India as far as qualification to the World Test Championship final is concerned. Over the course of the next six months, India are scheduled to host New Zealand in a three-match series after the Bangladesh rubber and that will be followed by an epic five-Test tour of Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
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Sep 19, 2024 8:30 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Bangladesh’s overseas Test wins
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Since they started playing Test cricket in 2000, Bangladesh have won eight matches away from home. That is an impressive record, 24 years remains a short period for any side to transform themselves into a strong Test nation. Moreover, four of these wins have come since 2021.
Sep 19, 2024 8:15 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: India’s Test schedule
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: The second Test of this series is set to be played in Kanpur from October 1. This will be followed by a three-match Test series against New Zealand, who are currently playing out a series in Sri Lanka. The first match will be from October 16 in Bengaluru after which the second starts on October 24 in Pune. The third Test will be hosted at the Wankhede Stadium from November 1.
That ends the home Test season for India but it will be followed by arguably the biggest cricket event left in this calendar year – the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The series has expanded to five Tests and the first will be held in Perth from November 22. The second Test is the annual Adelaide pink-ball Test, a rather infamous event for India considering how it went in the last tour, and this starts from December 6. India then return to the venue of their greatest heist in the last tour Down Under, the Gabba in Brisbane for the third Test from December 14 and that will be followed by the Boxing Day Test at the MCG from December 26. The final match of the epic tour will be the New Year’s Test in Sydney from January 3.
Sep 19, 2024 8:09 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Kuldeep Yadav the batter
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Kuldeep Yadav has worked on his batting to make sure that his frailty in that department doesn’t go against him in close selection calls. He had scored 28 and 30 in the last two times that he batted in Test cricket. Both those innings came as part of big lower-order stands that propelled India to a commanding position in those Tests.
Sep 19, 2024 8:06 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Three spinners or no for India
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Considering the fact that the seamers are set to have a big say on the basis of what the pitch looks like, the big question is whether India will go with an additional spinner with Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. If they do, it is quite likely that Kuldeep Yadav would get the nod ahead of Axar Patel.
Sep 19, 2024 8:03 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: The Chepauk pitch
The track at the MA Chidambaram Stadium has been laid out with the red soil, which is usually seen at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Red-soil pitches generally have bounce and carry and thus keep the seamers in the picture. However, the hot and humid conditions in Chennai could possibly offer grip for the spinners as the Test progresses. But it would be the quicks who are expected to make an impact in the match because of the nature of the track and conditions. There would be a few sessions in the Test that would be dominated by reverse swing too.
Sep 19, 2024 8:01 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Weather in Chennai
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: One can expect it to be nice and sunny in Chennai. In fact, forget about rain, the scorching heat might be some cause of concern for player over the course of this Test. Parts of Tamil Nadu were sizzling at over 40 degrees celsius on Tuesday. Chennai has recorded temperatures close to 40 degrees celsius in the afternoon quite frequently in the last few days.
Sep 19, 2024 7:49 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Yaz chasing Baz
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Yazball was said to have chased away Bazball earlier this year when England toured India for five Test matches. Now Yashasvi Jaiswal really is chasing a record that belongs to Brendon McCullum. Jaiswal is only seven sixes behind McCullum’s record of most sixes (33) hit in a calendar year in Tests.
Sep 19, 2024 7:39 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Rishabh Pant in Test cricket
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Rishabh Pant made his first runs in Test cricket by hitting a six. He blasted the second ball he faced in his career from Adil Rashid at Trent Bridge for a big one in August 2018. He has played 33 Test matches in his career in which he has scored 2271 runs at an average of 43.67. Pant has scored five centuries and 11 half-centuries. Nine of those 11 half-centuries have in fact been 90s.
Sep 19, 2024 7:30 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: India’s 21st century turnaround
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: India have always been a difficult side to beat at home but they have taken this dominance to unprecedented levels since 2013. This has meant that their overall record in the 21st century is quite extraordinary. India came into it with 63 wins and 112 defeats from 336 matches played. It put the country’s win-loss record in Tests at 0.562. It now stands at exactly 1.
Sep 19, 2024 7:22 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: India close to doing something they’ve never done
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: If India win this match, their win-loss ratio will be more than 1 for the first time in their Test history. Having played their first Test match in 1932 at Lord’s against England, never before have India won more matches than they have lost in the longest format. Of the 579 Tests they have played, India have won and lost 178 matches and drawn 222. There has also been one extraordinary tied Test in Chennai in September 1986.
India will be the fifth team to have more wins than losses in their Test history after Australia, England, Pakistan and South Africa.
Sep 19, 2024 7:10 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Mushfiqur Rahim’s threat
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Bangladesh have a few Test veterans in their side and none have been more damaging for India than Mushfiqur Rahim. The wicketkeeper-batter is known for his meticulous preparation before a series and was seen practising a variety of sweeps at the Chepauk Stadium. Mushfiqur is one of few touring batters in the world who have a good Test record in India. He may have played only three Tests in the country but the Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batter has scored 331 runs at an average of 55.16 with one century and two half-centuries.
Sep 19, 2024 7:01 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Rishabh Pant’s comeback
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: The biggest talking point of this series is Rishabh Pant’s return. His career, one of the most incredible things Test cricket had ever seen in the last five years, went into a temporary deep freeze after he suffered a car crash at the turn of the year betwen 2022 and 2023. He had played his last international match just before that, which was also a Test against Bangladesh incidentally, where he scored 93 off 104 in the first innings. It was the sixth time that he had been dismissed in the 90s in Test cricket and he has five centuries to his name as well in just 33 matches. No wonder he is back in the squad as soon as he was available.
Sep 19, 2024 6:51 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Jasprit Bumrah, the best in the world
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: That was the assessment of his new head coach, Gautam Gambhir, yesterday. This will be the first time that Gambhir will work with India’s pace genius.
“Bumrah is the best fast bowler in the world in all the three formats. And it’s not just his performance, it’s just his hunger as well. The best part is that he wants to play as much Test cricket as he can,” Gambhir told reporters yesterday.
“I think what he has done in T20 format in West Indies to what he can do in red-ball cricket, what he did against England. So I feel that yes, it is actually not even a luxury. I think it’s really an honour that we’ve got someone like Bumrah playing for us and sitting in that dressing room. We can make a change, we can make a difference at any stage of the game. So yes, hopefully, we can do the same in this series and going forward as well.”
Sep 19, 2024 6:44 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Kohli’s three-word game
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: “Kindness”. “Chivalry”. “Respect”.
What did Kohli mean when he tweeted out those three words on X? Is it going to be his mantra in the upcoming Test matches? Is this what he is demanding from fans whenever they turn up in the stands for this series? Will it be his philosophy whenever he has a chat with opposition players? Has three words of the English language ever been analysed as much as this? Questions, questions everywhere and, let’s face it, Kohli is under no obligation to clear up the three-word mystery.
Sep 19, 2024 6:35 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: The threat that Bangladesh carry
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: They may be minnows in Test cricket but Bangladesh bring to India the kind of threats that the hosts are not used to facing when other top sides come visiting. Unlike England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, Bangladesh have more than one genuine world class spinner in their lineup and the average batter from the country is more adept at handling this type of bowling than one from any of the aforementioned nations. Add to all this the fact that Bangladesh just looked much kore steady in all departments of the game than they ever have in that series in Pakistan and it becomes pretty clear that we have an interesting series in our hands. It will still be the mother of all upsets, to put it lightly, if Bangladesh manage to win even one of the two Tests, let alone the series, but it is not something that is entirely improbable, which was the case the last two times they toured India.
Sep 19, 2024 6:29 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: What the presence of Jasprit Bumrah tells you…
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Bumrah was not expected to be a part of the Indian team for this series even until a day before the squad for the first Test was announced. While there were some raised eyebrows over some senior Indian players not appearing in the Duleep Trophy, there was absolutely no one having any issue with Bumrah being given as much rest as he needed, considering the humungous value he brings when India travel to Australia for a five-Test series and then try to win the Champions Trophy next year.
However, there he is, preparing to throw them down at the Bangladesh batters. This could mean either of two things. One is that India are wary of the threat Bangladesh carry, especially considering what they did to Pakistan in Pakistan just before this series. If somehow Bangladesh pull off a similar heist in India, anyone who has followed cricket in this nation would know that all the euphoria of winning the T20 World Cup would be replaced by obituaries to India’s life in Test cricket. And so, the selectors decided that no stone could be left unturned in trying to win at least the first Test. The other possibility is that Bumrah had enough of sitting at home and couldn’t bear missing out on his beloved Test cricket when being fully fit.
Sep 19, 2024 6:18 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Bangladesh full squad for first and second Tests
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Shadman Islam, Zakir Hasan, Mominul Haque, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Litton Das(w), Jaker Ali, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Khaled Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Taijul Islam, Nayeem Hasan, Nahid Rana
Sep 19, 2024 6:09 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: India full squad for the first Test
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sarfaraz Khan, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Dhruv Jurel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Akash Deep
Sep 19, 2024 6:01 AM IST
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Hello and welcome! It’s time for some Test cricket!
India vs Bangladesh Live Score 1st Test, Day 1: Get your white shirts and pants out of the washing machine because the Indian men’s team is back to playing Test cricket after a six-month-long break! They face Bangladesh in the first Test at the Chepauk Stadium. Stay tuned for more updates.
