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The two-match Test series between India and Bangladesh is starting from Thursday. The first match will be played at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai from September 19. Both the teams have started preparing for it.
On Tuesday, Indian team captain Rohit Sharma held a press conference and on Wednesday, Indian team head coach Gautam Gambhir also held a press conference. Gambhir indicated that young players like Dhruv Jurel and Sarfaraz are unlikely to be selected for the first Test against Bangladesh. Gambhir told the media that both of them will have to wait a bit to play in the Test team. India's head coach Gautam Gambhir, while addressing the media, said that the best style of play is the one that helps the team win. Along with this, Gambhir clearly indicated that he will protect the players with full confidence in the series against Bangladesh. After defeating Pakistan, the Bangladesh team is full of confidence and the Indian players will not try to take them lightly.
India have won 15 Tests at Chepauk
So far 34 Test matches have been played at Chepauk. In which India has won 15 matches, while lost seven matches. While 11 matches were drawn and one match was tied. The team batting first on this ground has won 13 Tests. The Indian team played its last Test here in 2021 against England, in which they won by 317 runs.
Rohit has a chance to register a unique record of 100 sixes
Rohit Sharma has 84 sixes in Test cricket and he needs 16 more long shots to cross the 100 sixes mark. Rohit can register this record in his name in the series against Bangladesh. If he hits 100 sixes in the two-Test series, he will become the first batsman to hit 100 sixes in all three formats of world cricket. Rohit has already achieved this feat in ODIs and T20 Internationals. Also, he can become the fourth batsman in the world to hit 100 sixes in Tests. England all-rounder Ben Stokes leads the way with 131 sixes. New Zealand's Brendon McCullum is second with 107 sixes and Australia's veteran wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist is third with 100 sixes. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored over 700 runs with two double centuries in the Test series against England this year. He can become the highest run-scorer in the 2023-25 cycle of the World Test Championship. Jaiswal needs 132 runs to register the record.
Jaiswal will be targeting McCullum's 10 year old record
India's left-handed opener Yashasvi Jaiswal will have a chance to break a unique record in the Test series against Bangladesh. He can break the record of former New Zealand left-handed opener Brendon McCullum. Jaiswal needs eight more sixes to break McCullum's record. McCullum hit a total of 33 sixes in the Test format in the 2014 season. Jaiswal has 26 sixes to his name so far in 2024. England's Ben Stokes is third on this list with 26 sixes and will achieve this feat in 2022.
Kohli has a chance to join the elite club of Sachin and Dravid
Indian star batsman Virat Kohli is desperate to return to the Test team. He decided to stay out of the five-match Test series against England due to personal reasons. The Test series against Bangladesh starting Thursday, September 19, will be important for him. He can make some records in this category. Kohli has scored 8848 runs in 113 Test matches. He has a chance to complete nine thousand runs in Tests. Only three batsmen from India, Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid, have been able to achieve this feat. He needs 152 more runs to cross the nine thousand mark. Sachin is at the forefront in this matter, who has scored 15921 runs in 329 innings of 200 matches. Dravid scored 13265 runs in 284 innings and Gavaskar scored 10122 runs in 214 innings. Kohli has scored 26942 runs in 591 innings in international cricket. Kohli needs 58 more runs to cross the mark of 27 thousand runs.
