As the Indian cricket team reached here aiming to avenge their World Cup loss, Bangladesh vice captain Mohammad Ashraful said his
side had plans to stretch Rahul Dravid's men in the upcoming series.
"They will come hard at us as they probably lost out on a Super Eights spot
because of us. But they could find themselves stretched here," said Ashraful,
a batting success at the recent World Cup.
Ashraful, in line to succeed long-serving captain Habibul
Bashar, said his side could repeat their World Cup performance against India
in the series beginning later this week.
"We can beat the best, we have shown that in the past,
and if everything clicks we can expect something good out of this series,"
said Ashraful, who will play his 100th ODI on Thursday.
The 22-year-old played a sterling knock of 87 in engineering
an upset over then world's number one-ranked team South Africa during
the World Cup in Caribbean.
Ashraful made more runs than any of his team-mates in scoring
216 from nine matches at the World Cup at an average of 36.00. He tends to do
well against big teams and usually has been at the forefront of the run-charge
in his country's wins against bigger Test nations such as Australia,
India and South Africa.
Ashraful also felt that the absence of Sachin Tendulkar
and Sourav Ganguly from the one-day squad could hurt the chances of the
visiting Indians.
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