India out to return to winning ways

"Now we have not played cricket for a while after the World Cup which has been a disappointment so like anything, once you have had a disappointment you want to go out, in fact, you can't wait to get out there are try and correct that and try and play some good cricket. And the boys have been really waiting for it. So the boys are looking forward to it," said Dravid.

Bangladesh, now enter the series with self belief and a home support that suddenly believes in their team. Victories over the likes of India and South Africa in the World Cup has given them just the lift they needed. Now they need to follow it up consistently.

"More than anything else we want the players to enjoy themselves. But winning on home soil will be great and we are focussed on that." said Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar.

Indian team's jinx with injury in recent weeks continues in Dhaka as well as Manoj Tiwary is also out of One-day series because of shoulder injury.

However, the visitors are more concerned about a fine show in the first match of the One-Day series, even as Bangladesh looks all charged up to show that their World Cup victory wasn't a fluke.

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