India and Bangladesh play a short test match series in Bangladesh in January month of 2010, which will be India's 4th trip to neighbouring country. Following are informations related to this cricket series :-

Match dates

A two test match series it will be, first test is from 17th Jan at Chittagong and 2nd test from 24th Jan at Dhaka.

Live telecast channels

Nimbus Communication is official broadcaster of Bangladesh cricket board and hence, Neocricket will show India v Bangladesh test series in India and most of asia. Note that Doordarshan will now do live coverage. World wide broadcasters.

Watch online

Few and even fewer are free but fans can try www.espn360.com (only for members in USA) or www.willow.tv which has internet rights for most cricket series around the world .matches can be viewed also in www.action8cricket.com , www.live-cricket-match.com

Tickets

Local fans in Bangladesh can buy tickets for tests against India at all Grameen phone outlets in city and also at the stadium counters, on match days.

Match start timings

9.30am local bangladesh star for each day's play in both the tests, it turns into 9am India time = 2.30pm Sydney in Australia = 3.30am UK = 10.30pm Canada = 11.30am Malaysia/Singapore = 4.30pm New Zealand = 7.30pm Los Angeles in US = 7.30am Middle East.


India test squad for Bangladesh tour : January 2010.

India test squad for Bangladesh tour has Sachin Tendulkar coming back after Mumbai vetern decided to skip the one day triseries.. Tendulkar will form the same strong middle order for visitors with Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman who too don't play shorter version on tour earlier.

MS Dhoni is yet to lose a test match as Indian captain, nor has India ever lost or even draw a test against Bangladesh and they should have it easy against lowest ranked test team this time, although Bangla tigers are expected to be competitive in home conditions.

Subramaniam Badrinath, the right handed middle order batsman, has been axed from the side that featured against Sri Lanka, without playing a match while Dinesh Karthik returns (not sure as keeper or as batsman). Murali Vijay will be opening batsman in waiting with first choice Gautam Gambhir and Virendra Sehwag. Yuvraj Singh will bat at number six.

Indian selectors have opted for 3 spinners for Bangladesh test series, with Harbhajan Singh ~ the off spinner, Amit Mishra ~ the leg spinner and Pragyan Ojha ~ the left arm orthodox spinner.

Indian pace attack has one major change with Sudeep Tyagi, the Utter Pradesh and Chennai Super kings bowler, given his maiden test call to partner experienced Zaheer Khan. Ishant Sharma finds himself back into International arena although he hasn't had much rhythm of late. S Sreesath made a solid comeback into Indian test team with a man of match performance against Sri Lanka couple of months ago and will be second choice medium pacer in the 16 member squad.

Dates : India vs Bangladesh 1st test from 17 to 21 January 2010 at Chittagong and 2nd test from 24th to 28th before Indians return home to play South Africans.

India squad for 2 test match series in Bangladesh.
MS Dhoni (capt)	Yuvraj Singh	Zaheer Khan
Sachin Tendulkar	Murali Vijay	Ishant Sharma
Rahul Dravid	Dinesh Karthik	S Sreesanth
VVS Laxman	Harbhajan Singh	Sudeep Tyagi
Virendra Sehwag	Amit Mishra	Gary Kirsten (Coach)
Gautam Gambhir	Pragyan Ojha

Bangladesh test squad for 2 test series against India, January 2010.

Bangladesh squad for tests against India still doesn't have their best player = Mashrafe Mortaza, who is close to fitness after his knee injury and may comeback for second test match.

Shakib Al Hasan will captain Bangladesh who have only drawn once and lost 4 of 5 tests against India. Having said that, Bangladeshis are fresh from their first ever overseas test series victory in West Indies the last time they played test cricket and are supposed to pose problems for current world number 1 team India, specially at home.

Shahriar Nafees, having broken his ties with rebel Indian cricket league (ICL), makes a comeback into Bangladesh test squad. Nafees last played a test back in March 2008 against South Africa. experienced Mohammad Ashraful, Mahmudullah Riyad and Roqibul Hasan will form a strong middle order with Nafees for Bangla tigers.

Bangladesh selectors have opted for 3 other openers, all left handers, in Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique and Imrul Kayes.

Home team have concentrated on fast bowlers more than spinners with Shahadat Hossain, Rubel Hossain and young Shafiul Islam who made his international debut during triseries earlier on tour. left arm spinner Abdur Razzak has been overlooked for Enamul Hossain Junior in squad for 14.

Mahbubul Islam, the 26 year old right arm fast bowler who made his debut against New Zealand lin 2008 but didn't play a single game in 2009, has been given another chance.

Bangladesh squad for 2 test match series vs India.
Shakib Al Hasan (captain)	Mahmudullah Riyad	Rubel Hossain
Mohammad Ashraful	Raqibul Hasan	Enamul Hossain Junior
Shahriar Nafees	Imrul Kayes	Mahbubul Alam
Tamim Iqbal	Mushfiqur Rahim	Shaiful Islam
Junaid Siddique	Shahadat Hossain	Jamie Siddon (coach)

Grounds

Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium in Chittagong, which has so far hosted 6 tests, gets the first game (none won by Bangladesh, 5 lost) while Shere-Bangla stadium in Mirpur in Dhaka will stage the second test match. Bangla stadium has so far seen 4 tests, none won by Bangladesh, losing thrice.

News & Photos

on India v Bangladesh test series 2010 can be found easily at news.google.com and at espn.go.com respectively.

Head to head

Bangladesh played their first ever test match against India back in year 2000, 5 in total so far and India have won all of them. Interestingly, all those tests have also been in Bangladesh only.

India v Bangladesh test records

Sachin Tendulkar's 248*, which is his best test score as well, is highest by a batsman in Ind v Bdesh tests while 6 for 51 is best bowling, by Irfan Pathan (Naimur Rehman has also achieved the feat, although conceeding more runs). 610/3 declared is highest total, by India, and Bangladesh holds the record of lowest total = 91, at Dhaka. Innings + 239 runs is biggest win, for India of course.