Indian skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first against Bangladesh in the fourth Twenty20 World Cup match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Saturday.
India are one of cricket’s most marketable and followed teams.They are the defending ICC World Twenty20 champions and the ‘rockstars’ of cricket. India’s loss in a major tournament or a game makes for bigger news than a victory.
Bangladesh, on the other hand, are the poor cousins of the subcontinent. But if ever there’s a leveller in cricket, then it’s the T20 format.
Bangladesh will hope to do what they did to India in the 2007 World Cup in Port-of-Spain. After all, they have been the giantslayers over the past four years. They beat India and South Africa in the 50-over World Cup in 2007 in West Indies and entered the Super Eights.
They knocked out West Indies in the ICC World T20 in 2007 in South Africa to progress to the Super Eights there as well.
Thanks to the IPL, MS Dhoni’s boys know exactly what to do in pressure situations.
Teams:
India: Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (capt./wk), Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Pragyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma
Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mohammad Ashraful (capt.), Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Raqibul Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mashrafe Mortaza, Rubel Hossain, Shahadat Hossain, Naeem Islam
