BAN vs PAK: Rohit Sharma captain, Shubman Gill opener… Indian players playing in Pakistan’s playing-11?
Uma Shankar May 09, 2026 05:25 PM

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Verma, Arshdeep Singh, Rinku Singh… all these players are playing in the first test match between Bangladesh and Pakistan, that too on behalf of Pakistan. Not only this, Rohit Sharma is also the captain of this Pakistani team. Shocked? Can't believe it? How can this happen, after all all these players are from India and are busy in this IPL 2026 season. But if we look at the playing 11 shown during the test match, it will appear that the Indian stars are playing for Pakistan.

The first test match between the two teams started from May 8 in Mirpur, Bangladesh. In this match, Pakistani team took the field under the captaincy of Shan Masood, in which Babar Azam was not present. But on Fox Cricket 501 channel, which was telecasting the match, such a picture of the playing-11 was shown, which surprised. All the 11 names present in the playing-11 of the Pakistani team were of the players of Team India and there was not even a single Pakistani player.

According to this playing-11, Rohit Sharma is the captain of the team. Along with him, Shubman Gill was the opener of this team. Apart from these, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Jitesh Sharma, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Akshar Patel, Arshdeep Singh and Mukesh Kumar were also present in the playing-11. The interesting thing is that Tilak, Shivam, Jitesh, Rinku, Bishnoi and Arshdeep never played a test match even for Team India.

Apparently this was just a mistake, which was later rectified. But within no time its photo went viral on social media and trolling started as usual. Some users even said that this is the best Test XI from the Pakistani team.

Talking about the Test match, in this match host Bangladesh batted first and scored 413 runs in its first innings. Captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto scored a brilliant century for the team. He scored 101 runs. Whereas former captain Mominul Haq missed it and was out on 91 runs. Veteran batsman Mushfiqur Rahim also could not score a century and was out after scoring 71 runs on his birthday. For Pakistan, fast bowler Mohammad Abbas took 5 wickets, while Shaheen Shah Afridi also got 3 wickets.

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