Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2000–01

The Indian national cricket team visited Bangladesh in November 2000 to take part in the inaugural Test match played by the Bangladesh national cricket team, which India won by nine wickets. The tour consisted of the one-off Test match only. Bangladesh's Aminul Islam became the third batsman to make a century in their country's inaugural Test.

Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2000–01
 
  bangladesh India
Dates 10 November – 13 November 2000
Captains Naimur Rahman Sourav Ganguly
Test series
Result India won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs Aminul Islam (151) Sunil Joshi (92)
Most wickets Naimur Rahman (6) Sunil Joshi (8)

This was the first Test match played in present-day Bangladesh (previously East Pakistan) since Pakistan played against New Zealand in November 1969, just a few years before the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

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