Bangladesh win toss, invite India to bat in 1st World Cup match
At the flip of a coin, the ICC World Cup 2011 commenced. In the inaugural game of the tournament, co-hosts Bangladesh and Team India face each other in the former’s home ground.
Indian captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-c73820 chose the wrong side of the coin and Bangladesh won the toss. Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan opted to bowl first.
Both the teams are charged up for the game, and India will be haunted by memories of their last World Cup. In World Cup 2007 in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, Bangladesh defeated Team India in one of the biggest upsets of the competition.
The pitch report from Mirpur suggests that the track is slow and batting second will be a trouble. However, there is the dew factor and considering that the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 captain has opted to bowl first. The match is expected to be a high-scoring encounter.
Historically, the team batting second has always had the advantage. In the last 12 games, the teams chasing have won all the games. So the important toss in the first game of the World Cup can play a significant role.
India have dropped Suresh Raina and have replaced him with in-form batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Piyush-c82317 Chawla were in good form in the warm-up games, but the spin duo has
been dropped for the first encounter.
For Bangladesh, their former captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imrul-Kayes-c64265. In the bowling department, spinner Abdur Razzak is the man to beware of.
At the toss, the host captain said that his boys were confident for their first clash. He added that his team will be happy to chase anything under 260. Considering the Indian batting line up, it will be a big task for the Bangladeshi bowlers to restrict
Team India under 260.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashish-Nehra-c46293 is not part of the team and there are speculations that he is
out tending a sore back.
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