Thursday's action in the ICC Champions Trophy comes from Dubia where the tournaments rank outsiders Bangladesh take on the outright favourites India
This is a Group A match with India and Bangladesh, who meet in Dubai on Thursday, the other sides making up this quartet.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh had a hit out against a Pakistan A side in Dubai on Monday and they lost by 7 wickets after posting just 202.
In December 2024 they were whitewashed 3-0 by West Indies in the Caribbean, losing by margins of 5 wickets, 7 wickets and 4 wickets. A month earlier they lost a home series to Afghanistan 2-1.
Squad: Najmul Hossain Shanto (Captain), Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Parvez Hossain Emon, Tawhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmud Ullah, Jaker Ali Anik, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Nahid Rana
India
The tournament favourites arrive in good form. Earlier this month they completed a 3-0 clean sweep of England in a home series with the margins of victory being 4 wickets, 4 wickets and finally 142 runs. They did lose 2-0 in Sri Lanka in August 2024 which was their only ODI action in that calender year.
Aside from the absent Jasprit Bumrah India have brought along their big guns and they will select from the following squad.
Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Head to Head
Overall the teams have met 41 times in this format with Bangladesh winning 8 to India's 32 and there has been 1 no result
The most recent meeting came in the World Cup in October 2023 and India were 7 wicket winners in Pune
The Betting
At the time of writing Bangladesh are 6/1 to win this match and India can be backed at 1/10 with Betway
To in the tournament outright India are around 1.45/1 favourites and Bangladesh are 95/1 rank outsiders
To reach the semi final India are around 1 / 5 and Bangladesh are 5/1
Prices subject to change
The Verdict
This looks like a bit of a miss-match on paper and that is reflected in the betting.
I'll have a small interest in Shubman Gill to be top India batsmen, he was Player of the Series in that clean sweep of England and if the match result odds prove accurate you might need to look too far down the Indian batting line up.
Bet: Top India batter Shubman Gill at 22/10 with Betway
