Before starting the T20 World Cup 2024, India played their only practice match against Bangladesh on Saturday, 1 June. Being a practice match, there was a lot of upheaval in the batting order of Team India. Sanju Samson came in to open the innings along with Rohit Sharma, while Rishabh Pant took over at number-3. Meanwhile, Pant played a brilliant innings of 53 runs in 32 balls with the help of 4 fours and six sixes. Pant retired after scoring a half-century to give other batsmen a chance to practice. After watching Pant’s brilliant batting, speculation started that he is a good number-3 option in the T20 World Cup, but captain Rohit Sharma clarified this after the match.
Rohit Sharma said after the match, “Just wanted to give him a chance. We haven’t prepared the batting line-up properly yet, we wanted most of the players to hit in the middle.”
Apart from this, the skipper said about the match, “I am very happy with the way things went, we got what we wanted in the game. It is important to adapt to the conditions. There is a new ground, a new ground and a drop-in pitch.
In the warm-up match against Bangladesh, the star of the Indian bowling unit was Arshdeep Singh, who took two wickets for just 12 runs in 3 overs. About the left-arm fast bowler, Rohit Sharma said, “He has shown us that he has both forward and backward skills, he has very good skills. We have 15 good players here, we just need to understand the conditions and one .need to select the best players.”
How was the warm-up match between India and Bangladesh?
Rohit Sharma and Sanju Samson opened the team after winning the toss and batting first. Samson could not use this opportunity and returned cheaply to the pavilion. After this, Rishabh Pant, who came to bat at number three, scored a quick 53 runs in 32 balls with the help of 4 fours and as many sixes. Pant retired after completing his half-century. After this, Suryakumar Yadav scored 31 runs in 18 balls and Hardik Pandya played a brilliant innings of 40 runs in 23 balls to take the team to 182 runs in the allotted 20 overs.
Chasing a target of 183 runs, the Bangladesh team could score only 122 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. For India, Shivam Dubey and Arshdeep Singh took the most wickets with 2 each. While Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Akshar Patel and Hardik Pandya had 1-1 success.