3 reasons why Bangladesh can defeat India CT 2025: The Indian Cricket Team goes into their opening ICC Champions Trophy 2024-25 Group A game against Bangladesh as the overwhelming favourites. Not only are the Men in Blue expected to win this match, but win it convincingly enough to the point that most fans and experts are not even considering the opportunity of a Bangladesh win.
While the Bangladesh Cricket Team comes into this competition with several flaws and issues in their team, one can never count a team out in a short competition like the Champions Trophy. So today, we will look at the 3 reasons why Bangladesh can defeat India in CT 2025.
IND vs BAN: 3 reasons why Bangladesh can defeat India CT 2025
3) Jasprit Bumrah Missing In Action
India comes into this competition with a star-studded squad. But the Indian player that has been in the best form is absent from this competition. Jasprit Bumrah will be missing the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 due to a back injury.
While the absence of one player will not be enough to turn the tides of this match-up, Bumrah is the player whose absence will affect India the most. The 2024 ICC Men’s Player of the Year was crucial to the national team’s success last year. Player of the Tournament in the 2024 T20 World Cup, he was also the Player of the Series in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.
Imagine India’s fate in the BGT or the T20 World Cup without Bumrah; we would not have won the World Cup or would not have been competitive against the Aussies. So the absence of the ace pacer might just be the reason that India lost this match.
2) Promising Bangladesh Squad
The Bangladesh Cricket Team seems to be moving away from some of the established stars that were holding the team back. Like, after what seemed like a million years, Shakin Al Hasan will not be in the squad for his national side.
But besides that, there are a lot of promising names on this squad that can play spoilsport against a bigger team on their day. Mehidy Hasan Miraz promises to be the next poster boy of Bangladeshi cricket. Najmul Hossain Shanto as the captain is a world-class player. Player Jaker Ali has shown a lot of promise with the gloves while keeping and batting. There is also Soumya Sarkar, who has been inconsistent on the highest level but might just be the ace up the Bangladeshi sleeve.
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1) History Repeating Itself
What would you say is the darkest moment in the Indian Cricket Team’s history in the 21st century? Your answer would probably be the group stage exit in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. And while it was Sri Lanka that knocked us out of that competition, it was the defeat against Bangladesh in the opening game that truly sealed our deal in the four-team league group.
That 2007 Indian team was one of the best squads we had ever fielded with some players towards the end of their international careers. The similarities between then and now are uncanny. And if doubt creeps into the mind of Indian players, that heart-breaking loss could be repeated today.
Honourable Mention: Poor Form of Superstar Batters
Virat Kohli and captain Rohit Sharma, despite one good result each against England recently, have not been in the best form across formats for the past eight months.
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