Commentary: India vs Bangladesh

March 19, 2015 09:05 am | Updated September 03, 2016 04:52 am IST - MELBOURNE

Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal plays a pull shot during the World Cup quarterfinal match against India in Melbourne on Thursday.

Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal plays a pull shot during the World Cup quarterfinal match against India in Melbourne on Thursday.

India won the toss and opted to bat in Thursday's World Cup quarter-final against Bangladesh at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The world champions retained the same starting 11 that beat Zimbabwe by six wickets in their last pool game in Auckland on Friday.

Bangladesh made one change to the team that lost to New Zealand by three wickets in Hamilton on Friday, with captain Mashrafe Mortaza returning at the expense of Taijul Islam.

Teams:

Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza, Anamul Haque, Arafat Sunny, Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim (c), Nasir Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Taijul Islam, Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed

India: MS Dhoni (c), R Ashwin, STR Binny, S Dhawan, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, B Kumar, Mohammed Shami, AR Patel, AM Rahane, SK Raina, AT Rayudu, MM Sharma, RG Sharma, UT Yadav

Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and IJ Gould (England)

TV umpire: SJ Davis

Match referee: RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka)

Reserve umpire: PR Reiffel

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