India, scuffling with accidents and fitness-related issues, shall be decided to keep away from being on the fallacious finish of a whitewash in opposition to Bangladesh by profitable the ultimate One-Day International (ODI) of the three-match collection right here on Saturday.
Bangladesh, using on two contrasting but sensible knocks from Mehidy Hasan Miraz, has already sealed the collection after profitable the primary two matches however a 3-0 win shall be a historic first for Bangladesh. It will even considerably dent the visiting staff’s confidence forward of the Test collection beginning right here in lower than per week’s time (December 14).
For India, there have been 20 cricketers initially accessible for this collection. But now solely 14 can be found for the third ODI.
Kuldeep Yadav has been flown into Chattogram on an SOS foundation because the Indian bowling assault seems to be skinny on expertise. It is to be seen whether or not India brings in Ishan Kishan into the taking part in XI as an opener or whether or not stand-in skipper Ok. L. Rahul, who’s now a delegated middle-order batter-keeper on this format, decides to advertise himself identical to he did in the course of the tour of South Africa.
Teams (from)
Bangladesh: Litton Das, Anamul Hague Bijoy, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Yasir All Chowdhury, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Ebadot Hossain Chowdhury, Nasum Ahmed, Mahmud Ullah, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Quazi Nurul Hasan Sohan, Shoriful Islam.
India: Ok. L. Rahul (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Mohammed Siraj, Rajat Patidar, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Umran Malik, Kuldeep Yadav.
Match begins: 11:30 am IST.
The different possibility is continuous with Virat Kohli-Shikhar Dhawan mixture and get Rahul Tripathi, who also can bowl some cutters, within the taking part in XI. If the staff administration goes for a pure batter relatively than a utility participant, then the fashionable Rajat Patidar might get his first recreation for India.
There isn’t a back-up pacer who might substitute Deepak Chahar, and the staff won’t have an possibility however to fall again to all-rounder Shahbaz Ahmed, who may very well be the sixth bowling possibility.
India’s five-pronged bowling assault shall be Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Umran Malik, Washington Sundar and Axar Patel. With no Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami or Ravindra Jadeja, the Indian bowling unit’s efficiency on the back-end has been removed from spectacular. In the primary match, the demise bowling was poor with just one wicket to get and 51 runs nonetheless required, whereas within the second recreation, Bangladesh scored 200-plus runs after being six down for 69.
In the second recreation, Chahar’s breakdown with one other hamstring damage prompted skipper Rohit Sharma to make a terse assertion about how one must unravel the problem to search out out why so many gamers (quick bowlers particularly) are getting injured.
While a full-strength Bangladesh will begin as favorite within the remaining recreation, the larger fear would be the type of Rahul, the skipper. His document, save for the ODI collection win in opposition to a below-par Zimbabwe, has been dismal and the very last thing he would want is one other whitewash in opposition to his title after the tour of South Africa.