Before India and Bangladesh faced off in the 40th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2019, the two teams took on each other in one of the practice matches ahead of the tournament. India and Bangladesh played the second warm-up at Cardiff\u2019s Sophia Gardens and batting first, KL Rahul and MS Dhoni scored centuries to take the total to 359\/7.<\/p>\n
Bangladeshi pacer, Mohammad Saifuddin having had just begun his career at that time with barely 14 wickets under his belt was relising the opportunity to bowl to Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. The batsmen ranked number 1 and 2 in ODI rankings are a force to be reckoned with, and for the young bowler, this was a dream come true.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring our practice match at Cardiff, Rohit Sharma was at the striker\u2019s end with Virat Kohli as the non-striker. I told Rohit, \u2018it\u2019s been 10 to 12 years since I\u2019ve been watching you guys on TV, both of you are our dream cricketers. Now I\u2019m bowling to you and I don\u2019t know what to do,\u2019\u201d Saifuddin said during an interview with BDCrictime.<\/p>\n
Saifuddin went on to describe how he was eager to get either Kohli or Rohit out and narrated a hilarious incident regarding the India opener. \u201cThen Rohit laughed at me and said \u2018Good luck\u2019. Then I was trying my best to make sure that I got at least one of them out. Luckily, I was able to dismiss Kohli,\u201d Saifuddin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to sledge them. We have grown up, seeing them play and we can\u2019t imagine sledging them. Cricket is a gentleman\u2019s game and should remain that way. Also, because there\u2019s demerit points, we have to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bangladesh pacer Mohammad Saifuddin, who had played 14 ODIs till then, revealed how he was in awe of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and lived his dream of bowling to two of the world\u2019s best batsmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}