India opt to bat in historic test against Bangladesh

Feb. 9 (CRICKETNMORE) - Indian Captain Virat Kohli won the toss and opt to bat in the historic test against Bangladesh at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday. The historic Test in Hyderabad is Bangladesh Cricket first Test match on Indian soil.

Kohli was looking positive after winning the toss and said, ""We would like to bat first. Hyderabad has always been a good batting wicket. It is hard and the fast bowlers do get some help out here. For us the opposition is not something we focus on, we focus on executing our skills and we would like to go ahead with the same mindset. We are playing with five bowlers and unfortunately Karun misses out."

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On the other hand, Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim is expecting good performance from his team, "A great moment for Bangladesh cricket and hopefully we would put up a good performance against the number one team in the world. We learnt a couple of things from the last match, a couple of mistakes cost us the game against NZ. We have to keep our momentum up for all five days and we learnt some key lessons out there. The wicket would be pretty good for the first two days and the spinners will come in later. We are going in with two quicks, two spinners and seven batsmen."

Teams

India (Playing XI): Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma

Bangladesh (Playing XI): Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim(w/c), Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Kamrul Islam Rabbi

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Saurabh Sharma