Rishabh Pant has once again been left out of the playing 11 in India’s crucial T20 World Cup match vs Bangladesh. Shakib Al-Hasan won the toss and decided to field first. 

India playing XI:  

Rohit Sharma(c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh

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Many fans of the wicketkeeper were disappointed, and some voiced their frustuation on Twitter. Take a look at some of the reactions below: 

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India made one change to the playing 11 that lost to South Africa. Axar Patel made a comeback in place of Deepak Hooda. 

Bangladesh also made a single change to their playing 11, with Shoriful Islam coming in place of Soumya Sarkar. After winning the toss, Al Hasan said,” We will bowl first. There is rain predicted. We don’t know what is a good score on this wicket. Big game. We are well prepared today. Boys are gelling well. We have been playing with this side for some time. We need to continue doing the good things. We can continue working on our batting. One change. Sarkar is not playing. Shoriful Islam comes in.”

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Rohit Sharma also said that India would have batter first. He further added,” We would look to bat well. All games are important in this format. We didn’t play well in the last game. Hopefully, we can play some good cricket and get those two points. Good ground and good atmosphere here. Good weather as well. We have one change. Axar is in for Hooda.”