India has announced its squad for the upcoming two-match Test series against Bangladesh, with KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant making a comeback and left-arm pacer Yash Dayal earning his first-ever Test call-up. The series will start from September 19, with the first Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Bangladesh enters the series with high confidence after a historic 2-0 clean sweep of Pakistan on its home soil – its first-ever against the rival. On the other hand, India’s last Test assignment was a convincing 4-1 series win over England at home earlier this year.

This series marks Pant’s return to Test cricket for the first time since December 2022, when India last played in Bangladesh. The wicketkeeper-batter was sidelined after suffering a severe car accident shortly after the tour.

The India squad for the first Test includes: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah and Yash Dayal