{"id":33178,"date":"2017-02-09T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33178"},"modified":"2017-02-09T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T07:03:32","slug":"rahane-returns-as-india-elects-to-bat-vs-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33178","title":{"rendered":"Rahane returns as India elects to bat vs Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-30378\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"368\" alt=\"Ajinkya Rahane Test\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test.png 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test-150x106.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Hyderabad: India won the toss and elected to bat in the one-off cricket Test against Bangladesh at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The match marks Bangladesh&#8217;s debut five-day game on Indian soil since gaining Test status in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>For India, middle order batsman Ajinkya Rahane and opener Murali Vijay returned to the side after recovering from their respective injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Between the two sides, World No 1 India has won six games out of eight while drawing remaining two.<\/p>\n<p>India: Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (Captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha (WK), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (Captain, WK), Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Kamrul Islam Rabbi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-30378\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"368\" alt=\"Ajinkya Rahane Test\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test.png 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ajinkya-Rahane-Test-150x106.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Hyderabad: India won the toss and elected to bat in the one-off cricket Test against Bangladesh at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The match marks Bangladesh&#8217;s debut five-day game on Indian soil since gaining Test status in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>For India, middle order batsman Ajinkya Rahane and opener Murali Vijay returned to the side after recovering from their respective injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1557,1275,4744,466,9949,3140,1130,542,709],"class_list":["post-33178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-cheteshwar-pujara","tag-cricket-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-lokesh-rahul","tag-murali-vijay","tag-ravichandran-ashwin","tag-virat-kohli","tag-wriddhiman-saha"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rahane returns as India elects to bat vs Bangladesh - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33178\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rahane returns as India elects to bat vs Bangladesh - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hyderabad: India won the toss and elected to bat in the one-off cricket Test against Bangladesh at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Thursday. 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