Opener Shikhar Dhawan, who rose to 10th in the latest rankings, is top batsman of the tournament so far with a century and two fifties under his belt as India approaches its semi-final showdown against Bangladesh.
Against India, the onus will be as much on Bangladesh's pace bowlers.
Mustafizur, nicknamed "Fizz", vowed to do justice to his reputation in the semi-final. A win would give us a lot of confidence.
Luck also played a role with Bangladesh heading to nearly certain defeat against Australia until rain washed out the match. Virat Kohli and Tamim Iqbal combined offer a very decent 12/1.
India-Bangladesh Match is not that much rivalry as that of India-Pakistan.
According to a report in Bangladesh's vernacular daily "Jugantor" published on Tuesday, a section of Bangladesh supporters have the 2015 World Cup quarter-final in mind where two decisions went against them.
Mashrafe Mortaza, the Bangladesh captain, agreed.
The disrespect of Bangladesh towards India continued.
Players like to pretend they do not follow what is written or tweeted, but in reality, their bubbles are not impervious to popular sentiment.
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The Bangladeshis are known to be passionate, vocal and opinionated about their cricket.
Bangladesh's place in the last four was then confirmed when England beat Australia at Edgbaston. "Hopefully, it's our day tomorrow". The entire team joined in chorus and they uploaded the video on facebook, which acquired millions of hits. Apart from that many other cricketing greats like Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and more have been signed on by MRF previously. He is one win away from leading his side into a major final and will not be distracted by all the palaver about this being a "grudge match".
Kohli›s side crushed South Africa by eight wickets at The Oval in their final Group B fixture to set up a likely semi-final showdown with Bangladesh on Thursday.
They still believe that Rohit Sharma was out as Rubel Hossain bowled a perfectly legal delivery.
England won all three of their matches.
Bangladesh had defeated New Zealand in their last group stage match to reach here.
The former skipper had to delete it after instructions from the Bangladesh Cricket Board.
The Tigers have been playing fearless cricket for the last couple of years and the way they have adjusted to the English conditions in this tournament so far showed their ability to adapt to alien conditions like other big teams. Imrul Kayes might struggle to make it back to the XI.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a legend in 50-overs cricket where Mushfiqur Rahim is still an inconsistent player. Yuvraj Singh is worthy of a nibble in this market too. This time when India has geared up to face Bangladesh on semifinal, the Bangladesh fans have shown disregard to our Indian tri-colour flag on social media by draping it around a dog. But even there, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya have more quality.
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