After verbal Joust to experienced opposition in Chittagong, the teams arrived in Dhaka, which have established their points in different ways. Virender Sehwag had called Bangladesh “normal”, but for the first half of the match, they were more than a match for the Indians. Sehwag himself would have felt necessary by the fact that India won with 113 runs, but Bangladesh came close to taking the 20 gates that he consideration them incompetent of.
The Indian team management will take a final decision Saturday, the accessibility of VVS Laxman for the second test against Bangladesh starting here on Sunday.
Friday was a spectacular day for Team India. Team leadership, apparently on a request from Laxman took back its decision to send him home during the day.
Laxman, who injured his left hand in the closing stages of Day IV of the Chittagong Test, was predictable to come only after five days. But it seems he asked the team association to adjust its fitness on Saturday, ahead of the second and final test. He has received around ten small stitches on the tissue of his left hand. “We have decided to wait pending tomorrow in his case, director Arshad Ayub said.
India, for its part not to be as wet as they were in Chittagong, and they will certainly be strengthened by the return of MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh. With Sreesanth has gone home with a hamstring strain injury, it would not be shocking if Amit Mishra was conserved after a decent showing in the first test. It has been years since Norway won four tests on a bounce, and achievement in Dhaka will set them up nicely for a two-match series against South Africa will almost definitely settle on which team is ranked No. 1 in the world.
