Daijiworld Media Network
Dhaka, Mar 16 : India take on Bangladesh in the 4th match of the Asia Cup at Dhaka. India come into the match a confident unit after winning their opening game against Sri Lanka. Bangladesh too will be fairly confident - although they lost to Pakistan, they competed hard and nearly pulled off an upset. A victory for India will more or less seal their spot in the finals and virtually knock Bangladesh out of the tournament.
Pitch report: It is a new pitch. The difference in this one is that there has been a few foot marks on the pitch owing to the fielders running around on it during the previous game. The spinners might get a little bit of turn on this track and Sunil Gavaskar feels that is where Bangladesh can get an edge. According to him the team that wins the toss will want to bat first and put on something in excess of 250.
Bangladesh have won the toss and elected to field
Mushfiqur: We would like to bowl first because we think there might be some spin and we want to capitalize on that. I think if we bowl well and field well then we can do well against a team like India. I think there is more to come from us today. We are unchanged.
Dhoni: I think in the second half the pitch over here gets a little better. We aren't really unhappy to bat first since it spins a little more in the latter part of the day. Dinda has come in for this game for Vinay Kumar who is unwell. We have been beaten by Bangladesh a few times since 2004. We never take any side lightly no matter who they are. I think we have been doing well but there are a few areas where we need to improve especially when it comes to the bowling and fielding.
Teams:
India (Playing XI): Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Irfan Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ashok Dinda
Bangladesh (Playing XI): Tamim Iqbal, Nazimuddin, Jahurul Islam, Mushfiqur Rahim(w/c), Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza, Abdur Razzak, Shafiul Islam, Shahadat Hossain