The Indian national cricket team visited Bangladesh in November 2000 to take part in the inaugural Test match played by the Bangladesh national cricket team,[2][3] which India won by nine wickets. The tour consisted of the one-off Test match only.[4] Bangladesh's Aminul Islam became the third batsman to make a century in their country's inaugural Test.[5][6]
Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2000–01 | |||
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bangladesh | India | ||
Dates | 10 November – 13 November 2000 | ||
Captains | Naimur Rahman | Sourav Ganguly | |
Test series | |||
Result | India won the 1-match series 1–0 | ||
Most runs | Aminul Islam (151) | Sunil Joshi (92) | |
Most wickets | Naimur Rahman (6) | Sunil Joshi (8)[1] |
This was the first Test match played in present-day Bangladesh (previously East Pakistan) since Pakistan played against New Zealand in November 1969, just a few years before the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.[7]
Squads
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Only Test
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- Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
- Akram Khan, Al Sahariar, Aminul Islam Bulbul, Habibul Bashar, Khaled Mashud, Mehrab Hossain, Mohammad Rafique, Naimur Rahman, Ranjan Das, Hasibul Hossain and Shahriar Hossain made their Test debuts for Bangladesh.
- Shiv Sunder Das, Saba Karim and Zaheer Khan made their debuts for India.
- Aminul Islam Bulbul became third cricketer in history to score a century on his country's inaugural test.[8]
References
edit- ^ Partab Ramchand. "Sunil Joshi - an unlikely hero". India Today. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ "Liton Das in squad for one-off Test in India". ESPNcricinfo. February 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ Mohammad Isam. "When Bangladesh strode onto the Test stage". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ "India in Bangladesh 2000–01". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Hadlee's slow start". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ Rajneesh Gupta. "One-off Test, India v Bangladesh, Statistical Highlights". India Today. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ "The Home of CricketArchive".
- ^ Shashank Kishore. "The many hats of Aminul Islam, Bangladesh's first Test centurion". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
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