Sports Desk:

Bangladesh have won the toss and elected to bowl first in the first of the two-match Test series against hosts India at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

The match is set to start at 10: 00am on Friday (Bangladesh Time).

Bangladesh come fresh from their historic Test series victory over hosts Pakistan this month. The Tigers will be well aware that they have a much steeper task at hand against India but will still be fancying their chances of creating more history in the longer format, owing to their recent form in the longest format of the game.

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj.

Bangladesh (Playing XI): 1 Shadman Islam, 2 Zakir Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), 4 Mominul Haque, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim, 6 Shakib Al Hasan, 7 Litton Das (wk), 8 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 9 Hasan Mahmud, 10 Nahid Rana, 11 Taskin Ahmed.