Today India and Bangladesh will face each other at Pune for the 17th game of world cup 2023. India is coming with a big win over Pakistan, and on the other hand Bangladesh is coming with a loss against New Zealand. This world cup has seen two big upsets and no one can be sure that there isn’t more. We’ve seen before Bangladesh shocking everyone in big events and it happens anytime again. No doubt India is stronger than Bangladesh in records but Bangladesh is capable of giving a strong competition to any big team. 

Both teams have played 40 ODIs together where India has won 31 out of them and Bangladesh also manages to win 8 of them. We’ve seen so many thrilling games between these two Asian teams, so fans have lots of expectations for this game. Whenever India vs Bangladesh happens a lot of ruins flows, recently Indian wicket-keeper batter Ishan Kishan has made the fastest double century in ODIs against Bangladesh. Indian batters love to bat against Bangladesh and same as with bangladesh too. In this article you’ll see three batters who’ve scored most runs in this rivalry.  

Virat Kohli 

Indian star batter Virat kohli is at the top of the list. He has the most runs in ODIs against Bangladesh. He has played 15 games between 2010 to 2022 against the opponent and with the help of four centuries he has scored 807 runs, he has the average of 67.25. In the last game that he played against Bangladesh last year he scored 113 runs with the strike rate of 124.18, 136 runs in 2014 is the highest score in this stat. Virat is in great form and today he could add some more runs in the list. Virat has so many memorable innings against Bangladesh.   

He has awesome records in this venue, he has played 7 games at this ground and with the two beautiful hundreds he has has 448 runs. He batted with the average of 64, in 2017 his 122 against England is the highest score in this ground. Today is going to be the first time that he will play against Bangladesh at this venue. 

Shakib Al Hasan

Bangladesh captain holds the second position in this list with 751 runs in 22 games since 2007. He has scored these runs without a single triple digit score, 85 in 2010 is his highest score in this rivalry. All rounder has the strike rate of 37.55 in the list He is the oldest player alive in this race.  Being an all rounder he has awesome records against India. With 9 half centuries he has the highest fifty plus scores in the list. Today if he gets the chance to come early in the innings surely he is going to use his experience against India and score some runs to bother the opponent’s bowlers. 

Rohit Sharma

Captain Rohit Sharma has the third most runs in the table. He has played 16 matches and with 3 centuries, three half centuries, and an average of 56.76 he made 738 runs. The highest score is 137 runs which came in 2015 world cup quarterfinals at Melbourne. He has sent the ball out of the boundary most of the time between India vs Pakistan match which is 25 times. 

There is a slight problem with him playing in Pune, his records at this venue are not convincing. He played 6 ODI games in Pune where he has scored 147 runs with the average of 24.50, his highest score being 42 runs at this surface. Rohit is in great form in this World cup and he could change his stats after this game.

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