Groups ending within the prime two of the WTC desk will contest within the remaining, which is scheduled to be performed on the Lord’s Cricket Floor in London from June 11.
India have a complete of 10 Assessments left to play within the ongoing WTC cycle, 5 in opposition to Bangladesh (2 Assessments) and New Zealand (3 Assessments) at dwelling and a five-match sequence on the tour of Australia because the defending champions of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
A singular report awaits India proper initially of that 10-Take a look at run, in the event that they handle to beat Bangladesh within the first match of the sequence, starting September 19 in Chennai.
By no means earlier than within the historical past of Indian cricket have the wins outnumbered the defeats. However a victory over Bangladesh will change that statistic.
India have to this point performed 579 Assessments. The wins and losses from these video games are at present tied at 178 every, whereas 222 matches ended as attracts and one was tied.
A victory will imply India’s tally of Take a look at wins could be greater than the defeats for the primary time.
Listed below are another fascinating information within the offing in the course of the India vs Bangladesh Take a look at sequence:
– Having gained the final 5 Assessments in succession vs Bangladesh between 2017 and 2022 (one every at Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Chattogram and Mirpur), India want to lengthen their profitable streak.
– Virat Kohli (8848 runs at a median of 49.15 in 113 matches) wants 152 runs to change into the fourth Indian batsman to finish 9000-plus runs in Assessments. Sachin Tendulkar (15921), Rahul Dravid (13288) and Sunil Gavaskar (10122) are the batsmen forward of Kohli.
– Mushfiqur Rahim (5892 runs at a median of 39.01 in 90 Assessments) is all set to change into the primary batsman to finish 6000 runs for Bangladesh in Assessments.
– Taijul Islam (195 wickets at 31.92 in 46 Assessments) wants simply 5 wickets to finish 200 wickets and to change into the second Bangladeshi bowler after Shakib Al Hasan (242 at 31.31 in 69 Assessments) to attain the excellence.
– Ravindra Jadeja wants simply six wickets to finish the double of 3000 runs and 300 wickets in Assessments. His current tally is 3036 runs at a median of 36.14 and 294 wickets at 24.13 runs apiece in 72 Assessments. Simply two Indian all-rounders have completed the feats — Kapil Dev (5248 runs and 434 wickets) in 131 Assessments and Ravichandran Ashwin (3309 runs and 516 wickets in 100 Assessments).
– With one other six wickets, Jadeja will change into the third left-arm spinner to finish 300-plus wickets in Assessments. At current, solely three left-arm spinners are forward of him — Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath (463), New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori (362) and England’s Derek Underwood (297).
– Having managed 26,942 runs at a median of 53.35 in 591 innings, Kohli is poised to change into the fourth batter to finish 27,000-plus runs throughout codecs in worldwide cricket and to affix Sachin Tendulkar (34,357), Kumar Sangakkara (28,016) and Ricky Ponting (27,483).
– Kohli is all set to create cricket historical past as and when he reaches 27,000 runs throughout codecs. Tendulkar had taken 623 innings to attain the excellence. Having performed 591 innings and needing simply 58 runs to perform the feat, Kohli is poised to interrupt Tendulkar’s report for quickest to 27,000 worldwide runs.
(Stats By: Rajesh Kumar)
