The way India hunted down their opponents one by one in the group stage was nothing short of clinical. The clarity of plans and calmness in their execution was remarkable. The lucidly defined roles were played to the T.
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The sense of confidence in being unbeaten in the first stage of the tournament combined with the wariness of the knockout stage puts Team India in a good mental space going into the quarter-final.
“It is true that it is a dream that we are all living but we need to realise there is no end to one’s dreams,” Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza said. “At the start of the tournament our aim was to qualify for the second round and now we want to make it to the semi-finals.”
“We will concentrate on what is in our hands and that is our match against India. Our focus is to play the way we have until now,” Mortaza said. “We need to do well as a team in all three departments of the game.”
“We need to implement things to our benefit like we did in the last few matches since that approach got us a lot of success. If we execute our plans well, we can do well. We will try our best to perform tomorrow.”
Squad: India: MS Dhoni (c), Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Stuart Binny, Axar Patel, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Mohit Sharma.
Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Aminul Haque, Arafat Sunny, Imrul Kayes, Mahmadullah, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Nasir Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Taijul Islam, Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed.
