There will be no element of a "fluke" if Bangladesh beat India, for the second time in a major tournament, at Trent Bridge.

Coach Jamie Siddons is sure of that much at least, because he believes the development of Bangladesh cricket is now at a stage where it should be defined by consistency at elite level rather than all too infrequent successes against the odds.

Bangladesh will be underdogs

Siddons concedes Mohammad Ashraful's team will be underdogs against champions India when they begin their Group A campaign in the World Twenty20.

But he is equally aware they have it in them to beat anyone, without needing to rely on any freak set of circumstances.

Bangladesh's notable high-profile victories so far have come at discreet intervals - against Pakistan at Northampton in 1999, Australia in the NatWest Series at Cardiff in 2005 and then a second major World Cup scalp when they saw off India in Trinidad in 2007.

Yet asked about their notoriety as giant-killers, Australian Siddons said: "That's not the type of reputation I want - because I call that a fluke, if you win one in 40 or 50 games.

"I don't think this team is about fluking it any more. We've done the work; we've got really good depth in our batting and bowling.

"We've moved on from that fluky win"

"We've moved on from that fluky win. We have a chance to push anyone any time now.

"The other teams are ranked higher than us and are still probably better teams on their day. But if they slip up, we're quite capable of jumping all over them."

The balance for Siddons is helping his young team reach their potential, without allowing them to spoil their chances by becoming too ambitious for their own good.

Tamim Iqbal, for example, is an opening batsman with the shot-making ability to take any attack apart - but by his own admission, all too often he fails to consolidate after a lightning start to the innings.

"Everyone knows we're dangerous at any time. We've got potential match-winners in any form of the game," Siddons said.

"Our consistency hasn't quite been there. We are the underdogs but we're looking forward to putting India under some pressure."

Tamim ready to shock biggies

Bangladesh have a pressure of their own too, of course, such is the importance of their emerging cricket team to a huge population back home.

"We've got 140, 150 million people there who really want us to do well," Siddons acknowledged.

"Every time we lose, they feel pain; every time we win, they're happy. They mean a lot to us - we want to impress them, do the right thing.

"As the underdogs against India, we'll go out there and give it a crack and see if we can come out on top."

The first prize for upsetting the odds again will be that Bangladesh would already be sure of a place in the Super Eight stage, however they fare in their second and final group game against Ireland at the same venue on Monday.

"If we do (win), we don't have to worry about the following game against Ireland - that can be a practice match," the coach pointed out. If we lose this game, we've only got one more chance. So we're going into this game to win it.

"It's time for all our players to stand up. Their inexperience isn't an excuse any more."