Pride dented after the loss to Sri Lanka, India need an improved showing in all departments when they take on Bangladesh in their second outing of the tri-series on Thursday.
Having comprehensively beaten a full strength Sri Lanka at home last month, in-form India will hope to have it easy when they take on the injury-ravaged islanders in their opening match of the tri-series in Mirpur on Tuesday.
Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi is expected to be sidelined with a knee injury for around 12 weeks, ruling him out of South Africa's home Test series against Pakistan starting next month as he seeks to be regain full fitness for the 2019 World Cup.
Reigning champion India will be bidding to gain further momentum and become only the third side in World Cup history to successfully defend its title after West Indies in 1975 and 1979 and Australia, who won the coveted prize three times in succession between 1999 and 2007.
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The Indian squads for the upcoming Asia Cup T20 tournament in Bangladesh and the subsequent International Cricket Council World Twenty20 championship in India are to be chosen on February 5 at Delhi by the national selection panel headed by Sandeep Patil.
Bangladesh are no pushovers and are capable of not only giving India a good fight in the second Test but also beat them and square the series, host opener Tamim Iqbal said in Mirpur on Saturday.
Two ODI centuries in 19 matches and Virat Kohli has grabbed every opportunity that has come his way. But the young batsman says he will take one step at a time and not of too far ahead to keep pressure at bay.
The head of Pakistani cricket has taken the unusual step of writing directly to the team management, expressing his disgust with the humiliating 140-run defeat to India in the triangular series in Bangladesh. Ashraf singled out wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, describing his performance as "pathetic".
The victory margin of 140 runs in Tuesday's ODI is the biggest for India in all matches versus Pakistan.
History was made on Saturday when Rahul Dravid, Dinesh Karthik and Sachin Tendulkar scored centuries in India's first innings of the second Test against Bangladesh in Mirpur.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit out at his fast bowlers, saying that the time has come to decide on the future of the existing pace attack.
India's Team director Ravi Shastri hosted the entire Test squad for 'Team Dinner'.
Skipper Mohammad Ashraful hit an unbeaten half-century as Bangladesh batted defiantly in pursuit of a massive victory target in the first test against Sri Lanka at Mirpur on Tuesday.
The sixth edition of the World T20 cricket tournament is beginning in Nagpur on Tuesday with two qualifying matches being played. In the opening game, 13th-ranked Zimbabwe will take on 14th-ranked Hong Kong in Group B at 3 p.m. In the second match, also in Group B, 9th-ranked Afghanistan and 11th-ranked Scotland will clash at the same venue later in the evening at 7.30 p.m. Qualifying matches of Group A will be played at Dharamsala on Wednesday. The second round of the tournament, known as Super 10, will kick off on 15th March, also in Nagpur, when India go head to head with New Zealand in Group B. The other teams in Group B are Pakistan and Australia. They will be joined by the qualifying team.
Aaqib Javed has said that Ashish Nehra is a short term solution to India's fast bowling problems.
Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim faces a race against time to be fit for the one-off Test against India next month after the wicketkeeper-batsman was advised a week's rest to recover from a finger injury.
Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed on Thursday for genocide during Bangladesh's 1971 liberation war, hours after the Supreme Court rejected his review petition.
Pakistan bulldozed Bangladesh by 70 runs in a rain-curtailed tri-series opener to extend their unbeaten run in one-day internationals to 12 at Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka on Sunday. Riding on sparkling half-centuries by Salman Butt (70) and Mohammad Yousuf (59), Pakistan scored a challenging 233 before being folded in 39.3 overs, after sent in to bat in a match reduced to a 40-40 affair.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sympathised with Shakib and stated that the country's cricket board will stand by their Test and T20 captain in this difficult period.
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will play a tri-series of one-day internationals between June 8 and 15 at the Sher e Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.
India beat Bangladesh by 46 runs in the second ODI to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
Young leg-spinner Piyush Chawla will make his debut in the second ODI against Bangladesh.
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Pakistan teams of the bygone era, were better while India now have a more compact side.
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A century in each Test of the Bangladesh series propelled the ace batsman to 15th position in the ICC rankings.
India won the two-Test series 1-0 and condemned Bangladesh to their 40th Test defeat.
The Indian captain was involved in a world record 106-run partnership with Wasim Jaffer on Friday.
India is slated to play three ODIs and two Tests in Bangladesh.
The innings and 51-run victory over the West Indies in the first Test at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata is India's fifth straight win, their best run in Tests. The team beat Australia in all four Tests in February/March this year.
Special Trial Tribunal-3 Judge Sayeed Ahmed pronounced the verdict in presence of seven of the accused. One of the death row convict is on the run.
Bangladesh were 58 for 5 in the first innings in reply to India 610 for 3 at close on Day 2 in the second Test.
Wasim Jaffer scored a brilliant 138 before retiring due to cramps as India amassed 326 for no loss on Day 1 of the second Test against Bangladesh.
Eighteen--year-old Ishant Sharma was handed his Test debut. He replaced V R V Singh, who failed to make any impression in the first Test at Chittagong.
Gautam Gambhir became the fourth Indian batsman to post a hundred against Bangladesh.
India beat Bangladesh by five wickets in the first of the three ODIs.
Early morning rain forced the match to be reduced to 47 overs-a-side.
Only 30 per cent of the 20,000 available tickets have being sold so far.
