India pick opener Mukund for Bangladesh Test

                                        Opener Abhinav Mukund on Tuesday came back to India's Test squad after a hole of over five years for a coincidental match against Bangladesh beginning one week from now in Hyderabad.

The left-gave batsman, who played the remainder of his five Tests for India against England in 2011, was incorporated into the 16-man squad taking after a fine household execution.

Mukund, 27, amassed 849 runs including four centuries for the south Indian condition of Tamil Nadu in the 2016-17 version of the Ranji Trophy.

Fit-again wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha advanced back in the wake of recuperating from a thigh damage supported amid the current home arrangement against England a year ago.

Parthiv Patel, who scored two half-hundreds of years in three recreations against England amid Saha's nonappearance, neglected to make the cut.

Harmed paceman Mohammed Shami, who missed the last two Tests against England, was additionally not picked by the MSK Prasad-drove determination board of trustees that met in New Delhi.

Batsman Ajinkya Rahane and all-rounders Jayant Yadav and Hardik Pandya came back to the group in the wake of affliction wounds amid the England arrangement, which India won 4-0.

The Virat Kohli-drove India, who are positioned number one on the planet, are facilitating Bangladesh without precedent for a Test coordinate.

Squad: Virat Kohli (commander), Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Abhinav Mukund, Hardik Pandya