Also Bulbul is not playing. And Bulbul is our best player against India. (Bulbul is a nobody against other countries - compared to what he is against India).
About the points, Bangladesh could only get past 200 run mark against India the last time. In other times, Bangladesh could not even reach the 200 run mark. And the last time India played a few very inexperienced fast bowlers.
This time too, there are some very inexperienced fast bowlers for India, so we can at best hope for a 200 run mark total against India in the 2 matches. But that's it.
Ganguly is also a big factor like Rajputro said. He is a proven factor for India against Bangladesh just like Bulbul is for Bangladesh against India.
May be this time, we may get another Bulbul in probably Kapali or somebody else. We might also get another Indian player who will follow Ganguly - like Yuvraj, Kaif, and Sehwag.
Also, though we had managed to score 248 against India the last time, if you look at the scorecard, you'll see that our bowlers were very bad in that match. So, in the end it turned out to be a no-contest after all.
I would rather tell you to focus your attention to another match may be during 1998 match held in India (probably). In one of those matches, Bangladeshi bowlers could take as more as 6 Indian wickets while India were chasing a target. After watching that match I thought that if our batsman could score just a few more runs, then there might have been a chance for an upset.
But that didn't happen as Nayan Mongia - the Indian wicket keeper at the time had stayed cool and defended balls - it was a maiden in the 46th or 48th over. And then a set batsman on the other end could score the winning runs in the next over.
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