India vs Bangladesh 2019: Combined XI from the Test series

Only three Bangladesh players make it to this team.

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India’s home domination continued as they pummelled Bangladesh and won the series 2-0. Be it with the red ball in the first Test in Indore or the pink ball under lights at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, the Bangla Tigers were no match to the Virat Kohli-led Indian side. It was a very one-sided contest and the visitors hardly won a session in the entire series.

Both Test matches saw similar patterns. Bangladesh batted first and were bowled out for paltry scores before India racked up a big first-innings lead and eventually bowled the visitors out cheaply, winning by an innings. It was a series where the Indian fast bowlers stamped their authority and showed their dominance. The batsmen did their job but it was all about the Indian pace trio and them making Bangladesh batsmen dance to their tunes.

India recorded their seventh straight Test win (overall and all of them coming in 2019) and 12th successive Test series win at home. Moreover, they also finished the calendar year 2019 unbeaten. Meanwhile, Bangladesh lost all their five Tests in 2019.

Thus, with the Test series coming to an end, we look back at a combined XI:

Mayank Agarwal

Mayank Agarwal
Mayank Agarwal. (Photo Source: Twitter)

It was less than a year ago that Mayank Agarwal made his Test debut on Boxing Day at the MCG. He hasn’t looked back since and has been piling on the runs. In his first few Tests, he was getting out after scoring fifties and wasn’t converting them. But it hasn’t been a problem in this home season.

Agarwal scored a couple of hundreds against South Africa, which included a double ton as well. In the first Test against Bangladesh, he continued his purple patch as he stroked another fine double hundred. After Bangladesh were shot out for 150, India had lost Rohit Sharma early and thus, Agarwal took responsibility and batted long and big.

He was the lone centurion in that first game as he scored 243 and helped India take a huge first-innings lead. The Karnataka opener also looked good in his brief stay in the second game but was dismissed on 14. Due to that double ton, Agarwal finished the series as the leading run-getter.

Shadman Islam

Shadman Islam
Shadman Islam. (Photo Source: Twitter)

It wasn’t a series where all the openers excelled. Barring Mayank Agarwal, no other opener crossed the 30-run mark. Rohit Sharma struggled a bit as well. Every time, Bangladesh batted, the top order wickets fell like a procession. However, there was one Bangladesh opener who showed a decent fight.

Shadman Islam was one of the rare Bangladesh top-order batsmen who tried fighting it out against the relentless Indian pace attack. In fact, he was one of the only four Bangladesh players who faced more than 100 balls in the series. The left-hander may not have scored a lot of runs but looked compact and solid.

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