India vs Bangladesh Test, Stats Records: The two-match Test series between India and Bangladesh is starting from 19 September. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is soon going to announce the team for this upcoming series. The first match of the 2-Test series will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The second Test match will be played at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur from 27 September.
The history of Test cricket between the two countries is more than 2 decades old. 13 Test series have been played between the two neighbouring countries in the last 23 years. During this period, the Indian team has dominated Test cricket. Most of the series have been played in Bangladesh.
If we look into the history of Test cricket between the two countries, the first match of this format was played in Dhaka on 10 November 2000. This was the only Test match of that series. India won this match in Dhaka by 9 wickets. The Indian captain then was Sourav Ganguly.
Including that first series, a total of 8 series have been played between India and Bangladesh since then. Out of these eight series, India has won 7 series. The only series between the two countries was a draw in the year 2015. A total of 13 test matches have been played between the two countries in 23 years. In this, India has won a total of 11 matches and 2 draws (2007, 2015), that is, one thing is clear that India has dominated in test cricket.
The last series between India and Bangladesh was held in December 2022. Where the captaincy was in the hands of KL Rahul. India won both these Test matches held in Chittagong and Mirpur. India won the Chittagong Test by 188 and the Mirpur Test by 3 wickets.
That is, the story of the series between India and Bangladesh is something like this. 13 Tests have been played between India and Bangladesh in 23 years, during this time Bangladesh has never won any Test match against India. In such a situation, this time also the Indian team under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma would like to win this series.
But now it will not be that easy to defeat Bangladesh, because Bangladesh has defeated Pakistan in its home ground by 2-0 in the test series. Bangladesh has whitewashed Pakistan for the first time. Bangladesh defeated Pakistan on the last and fifth day of the match on 3rd September and won the series by 2-0. Earlier, the first match of the two-match test series between Pakistan and Bangladesh was played in Rawalpindi. In this match, Bangladesh defeated the host team by 10 wickets.
India vs Bangladesh head to head test match
Total matches 13
India won 11
Bangladesh won 0
draw 2
series between india and bangladesh
2000: Bangladesh host: India won 1-0
2004: Bangladesh host: India won 2-0
2007: Bangladesh host: India won 1-0 (2 match series)
2010: Bangladesh host: India won 2-0
2015: Bangladesh host: 0-0 (draw)
2017: India host: India won 1-0
2019: India host: India won 2-0
2022: Bangladesh hosts: India wins 2-0
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)