Friday, 18 February 2011

India will face Bangladesh in World Cup opening match today


The long lasting wait is over, and the ICC World Cup 2011 is all set to start today.

The most favourite team India, which has high chances to life the cup this year, will face Bangladesh today match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium amid enthusiasm of cricket crazy fans.

This is going to be the day-night game, and would start at 2:30 pm (BST) at the renovated and well-decorated 25,000-capacity stadium. State-owned Bangladesh Television (BTV) will telecast the match live.

However, players from both the cricket teams made practices at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

The Bengal-team will be their captain Shakib-Al-Hasan- made practice in the morning while MS Dhoni-led India in the afternoon.

India and Bangladesh are in Group B along with England, South Africa, West Indies Ireland and the Netherlands. Four teams will advance to the quarterfinals.

Probable Bangladesh Team: Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Junaid Siddique, Mushfiqur Rahim (Wk), Raqibul Hasan, Shakib Al Hasan (Cap), Mahmudullah Riyad, Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak, Shafiul Islam and Rubel Hossain.

Probable Indian Team :Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt and Wk), Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra and Munaf Patel.

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