IPL 2015 is done and dusted. Congratulation to Mumbai Indians and tough luck Chennai Super Kings. Its time now to focus again on the International stage of cricket. While Indian players enjoyed a good entertaining cricket in the IPL, Bangladesh enjoyed ODI series win over Pakistan at home. Now these two teams would lock horns in a bilateral series. India will tour to Bangladesh for a bilateral series that kicks off from 10th June 2015.
Here is the full schedule:
10 June to 14 June 2015
Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
India vs Bangladesh 1st ODI Match
18 June 2015
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
India vs Bangladesh 2nd ODI Match
21 June 2015
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
India vs Bangladesh 3rd ODI Match
24 June 2015
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
So sans T20 cricket we have rest two forms of cricket involved here. Good, we need some break from T20 after IPL!
Here is the Indian squad for test and ODI series:
Test - Virat Kohli (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhimaan Saha, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, K L Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron and Ishant Sharma.
ODI - Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Stuart Binny and Dhawal Kulkarni.
Some cricket fans would have been shocked to see Harbhajan into the squad based on his IPL performance. Although not fair but gives the touring Indian team a good experienced player. Harbhajan can come in handy with his off-spinners and batting too. He played his last test match for India in March 2013 against Australia. Not to forget he has 413 wickets to his name in 101 test matches.
Based on some good performances by Bangladesh (including a good show in the 2015 cricket world cup), Indian team won't take them lightly. Infact they would be wary of the improvements in the Bangladeshi team. Hence they have pitched in a full strenght squad.
The last time these two teams met was in the ICC cricket world cup 2015 quarter finals. Although Bangladesh were comfortably beaten by India, no one can take away the credit from Bangladesh. They played some really good cricket throughout the world cup. They created some upsets and also managed to reach the knock out stage. Recently they handed over a 3-0 whitewash to Pakistan in an ODI series back home. That proves how good this team could be against India.
With an improved Bangladeshi team and a full strenght Indian squad, we are bound to be served with some good quality test and ODI cricket. Stay tuned with us for more previews and reviews while you enjoy live cricket streaming and telecast on Star Sports HD and HotStar live match streaming on mobile.
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