The 1st test when India take on Bangladesh will be played at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on January 17-21, 2010.
Match begin at 09:30 local time (03:30 GMT) 9-00 am India time.
Indian Captain M.S. Dhoni would be not playing the test match due to injury and Sehwag will be leading the side in his absence. Kartik will keep wickets and open the batting for India.
Bangladesh has an uncanny way of beating top teams and they have done that in the past many a times.
India after losing the triangular series to Sri Lanka are on the lookout to win the test match. India should on the other hand not take Bangladesh for granted.
India: 1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 8, Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Sreesanth 12th man Ishant Sharma
Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Junaid Siddique, 4 Mohammad Ashraful, 5 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 6 Raqibul Hasan, 7 Mahmudullah, 8 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 9 Enamul Haque jnr, 10 Shahadat Hossain, 11 Rubel Hossain.
