Bangladesh battles India in a test cricket match between two international powers at midnight ET.
India hosts Bangladesh in the first Test cricket match on Monday. As a Test side India has been close to unbeatable at home for over 35 years, having lost only three full home series since 1987. In the 1990s it was its spinners – India’s greatest match-winner, Anil Kumble, and a support cast – who gave the country a home field advantage. In the second half of the 2010s and after, India also produced excellent fast bowlers (Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and others) to become one of the most formidable teams in Test cricket, home and away. The country went 11 Test series without a loss from 2008-09, won two Test series on the bounce in Australia from 2018-19 and got to the final of the World Test Championship in both of the first two cycles of that tournament.
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Match Date: Sept. 23, 2024
Match Time: 12:00 a.m. ET
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Bangladesh also has a long history, as it beat India and South Africa in the 2007 World Cup, where its mix of experience and youth – in the form of Mashrafe Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim – paid dividends. Senior players Habibul Bashar and Mohammad Rafique retired in 2008, and the talented Mohammad Ashraful became more inconsistent.
Mashrafe, Shakib and Tamim took the reins as the team built through the 2010s under various coaches, among them Jamie Siddons, Shane Jurgensen and Chandika Hathurusinghe. The country transferred those gains into Tests when it beat England and Australia in 2016 and 2017. In 2024 came perhaps its greatest achievement in Test cricket, beating Pakistan 2-0 away.
Bangladesh is hoping it can continue that good play and knock of India in the first test. The second test will be played on Sept. 27 in Kanpur.
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