IND Vs BAN: The three-match T20 International series between IND Vs BAN will start tomorrow, Sunday, 6th October 2024 at New Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium in Gwalior. India will be under the leadership of their star batter of the shortest format, Suryakumar Yadav. At the same time, Najmal Hossain Shanto who led Bangladesh in the Test match series will continue to lead his team in T20Is.
India has the upper hand against the Bangla Tigers in the formats like Test matches and T20I Cricket. The Men in Blue are yet to lose a red ball match and a Test series against Bangladesh and in the shortest format, Bangladesh has won only one game against India till now. Before the 1st match of the three match T20I series starts, let us know when and where Bangladesh achieved this feat of winning a lone T20I match against India.
IND Vs BAN: Rohit Sharma’s Achievements As The Skipper Of The Men In Blue –
Rohit Sharma is a great leader of India in all three forms of the game. He is the captain who won the five titles in the Indian Premier League and was the first skipper to reach that feat for Mumbai Indians before Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former skipper of Chennai Super Kings equalled that record.
Under Rohit’s captaincy, India reached the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia, the finals of the World Test Championship and the ODI World Cup finals in 2023. HITMAN has also been crowned as the World Champion after the Men in Blue won the T20 World Cup in this year of 2024. India was undefeated in the whole tournament.
IND Vs BAN: Rohit Sharma Is The Only Skipper Of Team India To Lose A T20 International Match Versus Bangladesh –
Despite still being a great leader in all three forms of the game, Rohit Sharma, the current winner of the shortest-format World Cup in the Caribbean had one low point in his T20I career. During the series played in 2019 at the National Capital in Delhi, HITMAN Sharma became the only Indian skipper to lose a game of the shortest format versus the Bangladeshi Tigers.
The last time when Bangladesh toured India was in 2019. The visitors played a three-match series of the shortest format and that tour of India concluded with one red ball game in Indore and one Day-Night Test match at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The Tigers shocked every single Indian fan during the opening match of the T20 International series at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi as they won the game by seven wickets and three deliveries to spare.
IND Vs BAN: 2 Best Performers Of Bangladesh In That Lone T20I Win Against India –
1. Shafiul Islam –
India batted first in that game. But the home side could manage only 148 runs on the board and that was mainly because Shafiul Islam, the bowler of the Bangladeshi side did a good job in restricting the batting powerhouse of India to that score. Shafiul picked up 2 wickets to his name in that T20I encounter. Aminul Islam was the other bowler who bagged two scalps to his name in this match.
2. Mushfiqur Rahim –
The legendary wicketkeeper batter, Mushfiqur Rahim was the first Bangladeshi batter to score a red ball century in India and he was again in the mix when his side bagged the lone T20I win over the Men in Blue. Mushi anchored the innings extremely well and guided Bangladesh to a seven-wicket win over the hosts. Rahim was unbeaten on 60 runs and also won the Player of the Match award for his excellent knock.
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