Bangladesh will face India in the first Test on Thursday (September 19) morning at the M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. This is going to be the first Test assignment of India’s new coach Gautam Gambhir. He is quite cautious for good reason.
Head coach Gambhir gave an idea of ​​how India’s XI will be in a press conference on Wednesday ahead of this Test. It means that Sarfraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel will not have a place in the eleven. He will keep Rishabh Pant and Lokesh Rahul in the middle order.
‘We are not really excluding anyone. We are only taking fit players in the XI. We believe in the eleventh election according to the conditions. Jurel is definitely the player to talk about. But when Pant comes, others will have to wait a bit. Same thing with Sarfraz. Opportunity will come for them too. We have to wait until then.’
He also said, ‘I have never been a head coach before. But as I have good experience with Rohit, Kohli, Ashwin, Bumrah and Jadeja, I hope we will find it easy.’
In that case, India’s XI in the first Test against Bangladesh could be just like-
Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashwi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Lokesh Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj.