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Team India arrive in Dhaka

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Update: 2015-06-07 23:21:00
Team India arrive in Dhaka

DHAKA: Indian Cricket Team arrived in Dhaka on Monday morning for the one-off Test match and three-match ODI series against Bangladesh.

From Kolkata, a Jet Airways flight, carrying the Indian Cricket team, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:55 am.

The one-off test is scheduled to be played at Fatullah in Narayanganj from June 10.

Indian squad is scheduled to train at the Mirpur Academy premises at 2:30pm.

Offspinner Harbhajan Singh has returned to India's Test squad for the first time in two years after he was picked for the only Test in Bangladesh from June 10 to 14.

On the other hand, opener Lokesh Rahul was ruled out of the Indian cricket team's upcoming tour of Bangladesh as he is yet to recover from dengue.

Bangladesh played 8 Test matches against India and never tasted win but managed a draw while the Tiger’s sealed 3 wins in their 18 ODI meetings, of those a match was ended in no result as that was washed out due to rain in Mirpur in June 2014.

Three One Day Internationals will be played on Jun 18, Jun 21 and Jun 24 at Mirpur Sher-e Bangla Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.

Test squad: Virat Kohli (capt), M Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Ishant Sharma

ODI squad: MS Dhoni (capt), Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Stuart Binny, Dhawal Kulkarni

BDST: 0916 HRS, JUN 7, 2015
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