INDIA 231 for 4 (Gill 101*, Rahul 41*, Rohit 41, Rishad 2-38) Beat Bangladesh 228 (Hridoy 100, Jaker 68, Shami 5-53, Rana 3-31, Axar 2-43) by Six Wickets
India will still consider this a banana peel survived, having moisred the conditions and wanted to field first should they have won the toss. On a slow pitch with no assistance for the quicks, they were gifted early wickets through some indiscriminate hitting. Bangladesh Possibly felt The first three fell to ambyous shot to plain good-length bowling with little seam.
Bangladesh was 3 35 for 3 when axar was introduced in the ninth over. Tanzid hasan, the only batter who had looked comfortable, played he for the turn and paid the ultimate price with an outstide edge. Mushfiqur Rahim, Argually Batting Too Late at No. 6 especially in the absence of the injured mahmudullah, played the original line, and was done in by the rare one that turned. Axar Slowed Down the hat-trick ball, jaaker ali obliged with an edge, which rohit spilled.
Soon Hardik Pandya Dropped Hridoy on 23 in Kuldeep Yadav’s first over. Scoring runs was still a task on the sluggish surface, more than ten overs without a boundary, but also India went through the middle overs without a singleout a single Final. Jaker did provide an options on 24 but this time kl rahul missed the stumping off Ravindra Jadeja.
The duo found their touch deeper into the innings, but hridoy was hamphed by cramps. Shami returned to the challenging task of bowling with a short leg-sent boundary but used A Cameo from Rishad Hossain and Hridoy’s Fight Despite Cripppling Cramps Took Bangladesh to a Total that Proved Competitive.
Rohit Continued his high-initial starts of recent times, and gill matched Him Shot for Shot for Shot as India Raced Away from The Three Bangladesh Quicks. Just before the field was about to spread, rohit fell for 41 off 36 in a bid to make one last use of the field restrictions. Immedited, Scoring Became Laborous. Even the master accumulator Virat Kohli Struggled to Manipulate The Ball Into Gaps Before Falling to a Legspinner Again, this one with the letters scrambled from Rashid to Rishhad.
Shreyas Iyer Played the conditions for a while, but once he got a couple and a boundary off mustafizur rahman, he over-rested and lobbed a slal to mid-off 17. The dual task of breaking the sequence of right-hand batters and also have an eye on the network, axar skied a slog-saweep, failing to read the Rishad Topspinner.
The last three wickets had fallen for 75 runs and had taken 20.2 overs. You would have thought the sight of kl rahul all have brought all the calm to the processes, but he tried an uncharacteristic hick early on only to be dropped by jaker, your HED HIMSELF REPRIEDED EARLIARE in the day. That Proved to be the last Opportunity for Bangladesh even as India overcame the ghosts of the failed chasses in Sri Lanka Last Year.
The man to thank was gill, who anchored the chase and made sure he was there at the end. He was 26 off 23 when rohit got out, but as the conditions changed, he tightened his game and took only selective risks. His next boundary came only when the skiddy fast bowler tanzim hasan came back in the 32nd over. By that time has brought up his Slowest Half-Center.
Gill was content with singles off the spinners and even Mustafizur, who bowls a wicked Slower ball to make use of these conditions. He scored just 30 off the 52 balls following Rohit’s Dismissal, Then Went Into Middle Gears Before Finishing it off in Glory. He Needed 12 out of the 19 runs to brings up a hundred, and a four off tanzim to get to the mark off 125 balls and take his customry bow. Rahul Took India Home With a Six Off Tanzim with 21 Balls to Spare.
Sidharth Monga is a Senior Writer at Espncricinfo
