Bangladesh bowl in historic Test against India

Sport Desk: India have won toss and chose to bat first against Bangladesh in the one-off Test at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad Thursday.

This is Tigers first Test in Indian soil 17 year after they achieved Test-status.

Bangladesh left pacer Subashis Roy and picked up spinner Taijul Islam in the XI considering the condition of the pitch.

Soumya Sarkar will open batting with Tamim Iqbal as Imrul Kayes ruled out for injury.

India left Karun Nair who scored 303 not out in his last innings and picket up Ajinkya Rahane.

Bangladesh Team

1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Mominul Haque 4 Mahmudullah, 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Mushfiqur Rahim ( capt. & wk), 7 Sabbir Rahman, 8 Mehedi Hasan, 9 Taijul Islam, 10 Taskin Ahmed, 11 Kamrul Islam Rabbi.

India Team

1 M Vijay, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli (capt.), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 R Ashwin, 7 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Umesh Yadav.

 

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