India will square off against Bangladesh in the opening Test match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai from Thursday onwards. The match will be played on a red soil pitch and the track will offer bounce and carry, with the reverse swing also expected to come into the picture.

India will look to make of their home conditions and the batters will also need to pull up their socks. The Indian batters have been averaging 33.40 since 2021 in the home conditions and thus they need to deliver as a unit.

On the other hand, Bangladesh are high on confidence after their 2-0 win against Pakistan. The Tigers will look to come up with a collective show against the Indian juggernauts.

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Ravindra Jadeja needs another six scalps to reach the milestone of 300 wickets. The all-rounder will join Kapil Dev and Ravichandran Ashwin as the third Indian player to reach the double of 300 Test wickets and 3000 Test runs.

Virat Kohli needs 58 runs to complete 27000 International runs across formats. Kohli has scored 26942 runs in 591 innings and he is all set to become the fastest to the milestone. The talisman also needs 152 runs to reach the 9000-run mark in Test cricket.

Shubman Gill needs eight runs to complete 1500 runs in the red-ball format.

KL Rahul needs 137 runs to reach the 3000-run mark in the multi-day format. The flamboyant batter also needs six fours to reach the 350 boundaries.

Shakib Al Hasan needs eight wickets to complete 250 scalps in the Test format. The left-hander also needs four fours to complete 550 boundaries in the pristine form of the game.

Mehidy Hasan Miraz needs eight fours to complete 200 boundaries in the red-ball version.

Mushfiqur Rahim needs 108 runs to reach the 6000-run mark whereas he needs four more boundaries to complete 700 fours in Test cricket.

Taijul Islam needs five wickets to complete 200 wickets in Test cricket.