First Time In 92 Years: India 1 Win Away From Sensational Check Cricket Feat

After a protracted hole of 45 days, the Indian cricket crew is ready to return to motion subsequent week as they tackle Bangladesh within the first Check of a two-match collection in Chennai. Forward of the collection opener, the Rohit Sharma-led aspect assembled in Chennai on Friday, with head coach Gautam Gambhir main a coaching session on the MA Chidambaram Stadium. The collection will likely be Gambhir’s first Check assignement since taking on as head coach from Rahul Dravid in July. Since making their Check debut in 1932, India have featured in 579 matches. Whereas they’ve received and misplaced 178 video games every, a complete of 222 matches have witnessed a stalemate.

If India beat Bangladesh in Chennai, the Rohit Sharma-led wil obtain a momentous feat. India can have 179 wins in the event that they beat Bangladesh, which means that Rohit and his males would surpass the variety of losses in India’s Check cricket historical past for the primary time since 1932.

Dravid’s final collection as head coach noticed India thump England 4-1 earlier this yr. Star batter Virat Kohli had missed the collection as a consequence of his son Akaay’s delivery.

Important World Check Championship (WTC) factors are at stake within the two-match collection as India prepare for a a gruelling 10-match Check season, which additionally features a three-Check collection at residence towards New Zealand and the five-match Border-Gavaskar collection later this yr in Australia.

India are at the moment main the desk with 68.52 share factors, whereas Australia are a detailed second with 62.50 share factors.

Bangladesh have jumped to fourth spot with 45.83 share factors following their 10-wicket win over Pakistan within the opening Check and their superb fightback within the second Check the place wicketkeeper-batter Litton Das scored a century to singlehandedly information the aspect to a collection sweep.

The 2nd Check of the collection will likely be performed on the Inexperienced Park in Kanpur from September 27.

Indian squad for first Check towards Bangladesh: Rohit Sharma (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah, and Yash Dayal

(With PTI Inputs)