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IND vs BAN 1st Test 2024: Ahead of the Bangladesh Tour of India, Team Blue will host the two-match test series against Bangla Tigers starting on 19 September in Chennai. This blog is all about the India vs Bangladesh player battle to watch out for in the 1st test match in 2024.
IND vs BAN 1st test match will take place at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai starting on Thursday at 9:30 PM. The bilateral test series between India and Bangladesh is one of the crucial tournaments that is also part of the ICC World Test Championship 2023-2025.
Where India tries to win the series gaining the points for the upcoming World Test Championship 2025 final match. While rival Bangladesh will seek their first-ever victory in Test cricket against India.
Once again skipper Rohit Sharma will guide Team Blue in the India home Test series 2024 against Bangladesh. The BCCI selectors also put some of the prominent Indian players including Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, and KL Rahul. The squad also has Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Yash Dayal, and Akash Deep.
On the other side, the Bangladesh team will be led by Najmul Hossain Shanto who recently beat Pakistan in a two-match test series 2024. The 16-member Bangladesh Squad for the Test series against India is more or less like Pakistan’s beating team. Only uncapped keeper-batter Jaker Ali Anik replaced pacer Shoriful Islam who ruled out from the series due to an injury.
So these are the major changes of the India and Bangladesh Test series 2024 squad. Let’s take a look at the top 3 IND vs BAN battle players to watch out for
India vs Bangladesh Test Overall Head-to-Head Records and Stats
So far, India and Bangladesh have played 8 series in the International Test cricket. This will be the third IND vs BAN Test series on the home ground and 9th overall. A total of 13 test matches have been played between India and Bangladesh. Out of 13, India crushed Bangladesh in 11 Test matches. The two test games were drawn without any results.
The table contains IND vs BAN Head to head in the Test cricket format.
| Matches | IND Won | BAN Won | Draw | Tie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | – |
Let’s look at the top 3 Key Players’ battles for the IND vs BAN ahead of the 2-match Test Series.
Top 3 Key Player Battle Between IND vs BAN 2-match Test Series 2024
Virat Kohli vs Taijul Islam
India star batter Virat Kohli is going to break his long-due pause from the red ball cricket in the upcoming India vs Bangladesh Test series. Last time he played a test series for India in the South Africa tour in 2023. Although he missed a home series against England earlier this year, King Kohli maintained the best form in the Test series. Especially against Bangladesh, Kohli averaged almost 95 in home Test matches. In the upcoming 1st Test match vs BAN, Kohli will face spinner Taijul Islam who scalped his wicket 2 times. While Kohli is only a few runs away from completing his 9000-run mark in Test cricket. Bangladeshi Southpaw bowler will try to clinch his wicket as early as possible.
Virat Kohli vs Taijul Islam player battle records ahead of IND vs BAN 1st Test match 2024
| Year | Outs | Runs | Balls | Dots | SR | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 69 | 88 | 49 | 78.4 | 69 |
| 2019 | 0 | 42 | 76 | 48 | 55.3 | – |
| 2022 | 1 | 11 | 55 | 47 | 20 | 11 |
| Total | 2 | 122 | 219 | 144 | 55.7 | 61.0 |
Virat Kohli vs Bangladesh
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100s | 4s | 6s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs Bangladesh | 6 | 9 | 1 | 437 | 204 | 54.62 | 633 | 69.03 | 2 | 49 | 1 |
Mushfiqur Rahim vs Ravichandran Ashwin
The next player battle is between Bangladesh’s top test batter Mushfiqur Rahim and India’s finest spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the upcoming Test match series. Mushfiqur Rahim amassed 5892 runs with an average of 39.1 in 90 test matches. He is also the star performer in the recent Test match series against Pakistan scoring 191 runs.
In the upcoming Test series, Rahim will face R Ashwin who scalped him 4 times in the test matches. R Ashwin is on the verge of breaking Anil Kumble’s 619 most wickets in the test for India. Ashwin has scalped 516 test wickets so far and will try to minimize the gap in the two-match series 2024.
Mushfiqur Rahim vs Ravichandran Ashwin player battle records ahead of IND vs BAN Test Series 2024
| Year | Outs | Runs | Balls | Dots | SR | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 40 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 47 | 69 | 48 | 68.1 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 1 | 52 | 87 | 60 | 59.8 | 52 |
| 2022 | 0 | 36 | 42 | 23 | 85.7 | – |
| Total | 4 | 137 | 203 | 135 | 67.5 | 34.2 |
Apart from Mushfiqur Rahim, there is one more batter Ashwin would like to target and that’s Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batter Liton Das. In the 4 test matches, Ashwin has scalped Litton three times.
Rishabh Pant vs Mehidy Hasan
Last but not least is the Rishabh Pant vs Mehidy Hasan player battle in the India vs Bangladesh test match series 2024. The series will also be marking the return of wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant to red-ball cricket after an almost two-year gap. By chance, his last test series was also against Bangladesh in 2022. He played an amazing innings and scored 93 runs off 104 balls. In test cricket, Pant has a 43 average with a stunning 73.63 strike rate.
Rishabh’s battle against Mehidy Hasan will be a watch out as the Bangladeshi bowling allrounder has sent Pant back to the pavilion in all three face-offs in 2022. In his Test cricket career, Hasan Miraz has bagged 174 wickets with a 3.10 economy rate in the 45 test matches.
Rishabh Pant vs Mehidy Hasanplayer battle records ahead of IND vs BAN Test Series 2024
| Year | Outs | Runs | Balls | Dots | SR | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 50 | 51 | 29 | 98 | 16.7 |
So these are our top 3 India vs Bangladesh key player battles for today’s first Test game of 2 Test series.
