India skipper Rahul Dravid believes a lack of Test experience will be the undoing of Bangladesh in their upcoming series. The first of their two-Test series starts on Friday in Chittagong. India won a three-match one-day series 2-0 after the final game was abandoned because of a waterlogged outfield.
"Obviously it is going to be a bit more difficult for them in Tests simply because they haven't played that much Test cricket," said Dravid. "We have got players who have a lot of Test experience. So we expect to do well in both the Test matches."
Experienced batsmen Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly and leg-spinner Anil Kumble, who did not play in the one-day series, have joined India for the Tests. Bangladesh last played a two-match Test series at home in April 2006 when they lost 2-0 to Australia.
BANGLADESH: Habibul Bashar (Captain), Mohammad Ashraful, Javed Omar, Shahriar Nafees, Saqibul Hasan, Rajin Saleh, Tushar Imran, Khaled Mashud, Mohammed Rafique, Enamul Haque jnr., Mashrafe Mortaza, Shahadat Hossain, Syed Rasel, and Mehrab Hossain jnr.
INDIA: Rahul Dravid (Captain), Wasim Jaffer, Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S. Laxman, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik, R. P. Singh, Zaheer Khan, V.R.V. Singh, Munaf Patel, Anil Kumble, Ramesh Powar and Rajesh Pawar.