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T20 WC 2016

Scorecard - 25th Match, Super 10 Group 2, India vs Bangladesh at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India (23 Mar 2016)

India

146/7 (20) RR:7.3

India won by 1 run

MOM: Ravichandran Ashwin
Bangladesh

145/9 (20) RR:7.25

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19.2 - Mustafizur to Ashwin, FOUR, poor delivery, cutter down leg, Ashwin plays the fine leg-glance. A Test match stroke played in a T20I. Still works though and beats fine leg easily. Ashwin is off the mark with a four. He and Dhoni have a chat

18.5 - Al-Amin to Ravindra Jadeja, FOUR, consecutive fours for Ravindra Jadeja. Al-Amin grimaces. While Shakib is not happy with the field setting. Slower short ball on the stumps, sits up for Jadeja to be pulled away, he does so, getting it behind square, beating the fielder inside the ring. He rolled his wrists on that and kept it along the ground too. The crowd are back to their full voices now

18.4 - Al-Amin to Ravindra Jadeja, FOUR, glove love between Ravindra Jadeja and Dhoni. This was a low full toss outside off, Jadeja opened the bat face on that and then sliced that wide of point. Well wide of sweeper cover. India needed that boundary. The key was opening of the bat face and that's what Jadeja did expertly well there

18.2 - Al-Amin to Dhoni, FOUR, look at Dhoni. Look at him doing a 360 degree body swing. It was full and outside off, Dhoni reached out and slammed it over cover. Almost swung himself off his feet. Such was the ferociousness of his bat swing. Gave it his all and the ball sped away to the fence. A mini helicopter that. Need more of those though

15.0 - Shakib to Pandya, FOUR, Pandya has been sent with a license to throw his bat. Comes down the track and takes it on the full, sliced over cover and once he got it over the fielder, it was four all the way. Suddenly the Bangladeshis are under pressure. Pandya's move to bat ahead of Yuvi and Mahendra Singh Dhoni so far working

14.5 - Shakib to Pandya, FOUR, Shakib puts his head back. Long-on was too wide for him to have a chance. Uses his feet and takes it on the full, hit wide of Raina and since the fielder was wide, he had no chance of cutting that off

13.1 - Shuvagata to Raina, FOUR, that's Raina at his best. Use of the feet and to the pitch of the ball, still not off the meat of the blade, off the bottom of the bat but he goes back over Shuvagata's head and that races away to the straight boundary. Good start to the over

4.0 - Mustafizur to Dhawan, FOUR, the quicker length ball on off and middle. Sounds strange to say that - when a seamer like Mustafizur is bowling. But he bowls cutters mostly. So this will be his change-up delivery, short-arm jabbed over mid-wicket. Dhawan was aiming for that stroke all over and finally gets it off the last ball

2.1 - Al-Amin to Rohit, FOUR, that is pure class. Just class from Rohit. He rocked back to a back of a length delivery, which wasn't short at all. But the skill of Rohit come to the fore, used the depth of the crease and then cut it late. The key was to play the ball late and that's what Rohit did. There was a sweeper placed, he had a few paces to cover to his left, but he had no chance. Even a full-length dive wasn't enough. Such was the timing on the shot. A decent delivery has been hit for four. That's what Rohit can do to you

1.4 - Shuvagata to Dhawan, FOUR, three dots and Shuvagata errs by bowling short. Dragged down, very short outside off, Dhawan rocked back in a flash and then thumped the pull over mid-wicket. Once it went over the infield it was four all the way

14.0 - Shuvagata to Pandya, SIX, so that's why Pandya has come ahead of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He can strike them cleanly. And off the second ball he has sent one into the lower tier at deep mid-wicket. Sliding on the legs, Pandya clouted that meatily and went all the way. A confidence boosting hit from Pandya

13.3 - Shuvagata to Kohli, SIX, rubbish delivery and heaved for six. Low full toss on the stumps, Kohli tonks it flat and wide of deep mid-wicket, a skimmer and clears the ropes on the full. Will that get Kohli going?

10.5 - Al-Amin to Raina, SIX, that's cleanly struck. The first one that Raina has timed today. Stays on the front foot and clears his front leg, expects the short ball and whacks it flat over deep mid-wicket. So consecutive sixes and the crowd find their voice. Raina expected that and pulled it meatily

10.4 - Al-Amin to Raina, SIX, in the air and its six. Hom was the fielder at deep square leg. Raina short-arm jabbed that and looked like he didn't have the distance to clear the fielder. But Bengaluru is a small ground, and the ball flies. Any other ground it would've been caught. Hom was at the edge of the boundary, got both hands to it, but parried it over

5.4 - Mustafizur to Dhawan, SIX, now Dhawan follows Rohit and gets six. A big tonk over long-on. This was on the stumps, Dhawan used all his muscle and heaved it over the fence. Now all of a sudden Mustafizur is under pressure. This was a calculated assault from the Indian openers against Mustafizur

5.2 - Mustafizur to Rohit, SIX, languid! Effortless. Use all the adjectives you can. Because this is beautiful from Rohit. Picked the slower delivery on off and just lofted through the line. Came off the meat of the blade and went all the way over long-off. The fielder was inside the ring and Rohit cleared him easily

19.1 - Mustafizur to Ravindra Jadeja, out Bowled!! The off stump is a mess. Full, fast and on off, Ravindra Jadeja slogs and misses. May have rolled his fingers on that as well. So Mustafizur begins well and so Dhoni stays at the other end. Ravindra Jadeja b Mustafizur 12(8) [4s-2]

16.5 - Mahmudullah to Yuvraj, out Caught by Al-Amin!! The reaction of my colleague - Mani says it all. Maybe he has Yuvraj in his fantasy team. He for sure loves his fantasy. Obsessed by it in fact. He just entered the room and Yuvraj is gone. As soon as the ball went off the top edge and was caught at short fine, Mani grimaced with a weird expression, as if he was batting instead of Yuvi. Yuvraj completely deceived by the slowness of that ball and was early into the swipe to leg, since the ball held up, Yuvraj couldn't change his stroke. Straight off the top edge and a dolly to short fine. That's another big wicket. Yuvraj c Al-Amin b Mahmudullah 3(6)

15.2 - Al-Amin to Pandya, out Caught by Soumya Sarkar!! Wow! Unbelievable catch. How has he pulled that off? He caught one against Pakistan the other day and now this is 10 times better than that. Pandya can't believe his luck but he has to go. He hit that well, another short of length slower ball, Pandya timed the pull and it was destined to head to the fence, but Sarkar running to his left at deep square leg, stuck his left-hand out on the run and the ball stuck. He was parallel to the ground when he took that. It took a while for the Bangladeshis to realise that Sarkar had taken the catch and then they rushed to him to celebrate. Sarkar used his long reach and those catches either stick or they don't. Has to be in the top 5 catches of the tournament. Al-Amin now on hat-trick. Not a wicket-taking delivery but the brilliance of Sarkar has pulled off a wicket from nowhere. Pandya c Soumya Sarkar b Al-Amin 15(7) [4s-2 6s-1]

15.1 - Al-Amin to Raina, out Caught by S Rahman!! Raina falls to the short ball. The crowd are cheering! Who is coming in next? Yuvi or Mahendra Singh Dhoni? Still don't know who. Anyway coming to the wicket delivery, Al-Amin bowled the slower cutter on a short of length, held up on the pitch and Raina could only lob the pull towards an on-rushing deep mid-wicket. Easily held. Raina had struggled for timing all night and never looked settled despite making 30. Raina c S Rahman b Al-Amin 30(23) [4s-1 6s-2]

13.4 - Shuvagata to Kohli, out Bowled!! No! He falls next ball. "The mute button has been pressed at the Chinnaswamy here" says Sanjay M on air. Utter disbelief from the crowd on seeing their loved one go. Shuvagata pumps his fist in delight. This was bowled quicker and on the stumps, Kohli aimed for a big slog to leg and missed. The stumps are a mess behind him. Rarely does Kohli miss straight balls, but this time he has done so. So that drop catch hasn't cost Bangladesh very much. Kohli b Shuvagata 24(24) [6s-1]

7.0 - Shakib to Dhawan, out Lbw!! Look at that appeal. "Aaahhhhhhh, aaahhhhhh" go both Shakib and Rahim. Not a "howzatttt" and that appeal is frightening enough for Oxenford to raise the finger. For Shakib was right at his face with fingers pointed at him. If he had got any closer, may have poked him straight in the eye. Jokes apart, it was plumb. That's what matters. It was fired in quick on the middle and leg line, Dhawan yorked himself on the flick, played all around it and missed. Would've gone onto hit leg at worst. The only thing that could've saved Dhawan was if it had pitched outside leg. It didn't. Replays for that Dhawan dismissal show that the ball was angling across and going on to clip off. Umpire's call. Dhawan lbw b Shakib 23(22) [4s-2 6s-1]

6.0 - Mustafizur to Rohit, out Caught by S Rahman!! That is a top catch. Not easy when the ball goes a mile up in the night sky. And from Bangladesh's perspective, they had the right man under it. Their best fielder. Mustafizur bowls the slower delivery outside off, Rohit was aiming mid-wicket, hoicked it but got a thick top edge which spiralled into the sky. Sabbir at mid-wicket backtracked and held on. Judged it to a nicety. The dangerous Rohit is gone. He got greedy and perished. The over had already produced 15 but Rohit wasn't happy with just 15. Rohit c S Rahman b Mustafizur 18(16) [4s-1 6s-1]

10.2 - Al-Amin to Kohli, 1 run, dropped by Al-Amin! He isn't a great fielder. And he has shelled that. Kohli came down the track and was beaten by the sharpness of that back of a length delivery, it hurried on to him and it went back to the bowler off the splice, Al-Amin stuck his right-hand out and it didn't stick. The ball wasn't travelling too. Al-Amin wasn't expecting that and that's what can happen if you aren't in a position to anticipate. Will Bangladesh regret that drop?

17.5 - Mustafizur to Dhoni, 1 run, slower delivery down leg, nudged to short fine leg, for a single. 1000 runs for Mahendra Singh Dhoni in T20Is

8.3 - Shuvagata to Kohli, 2 runs, "Mash, Mash" shrieks Rahim as soon as Kohli nudged that off the back foot. The Indians were looking for two all the while as the ball went to deep square leg. Mash chased it and threw off-balance to the bowler. Raina was struggling and would've been out with a direct hit. Despite a full-length dive

5.3 - Mustafizur to Rohit, 1 run, now softly dabs the slower delivery to the right of point and a quick single pinched

4.1 - Shakib to Rohit, no run, confusion between Rohit and Dhawan. Interesting with a direct hit. But Sabbir Rahman misses with the throw from cover. It was mistimed to the fielder and Dhawan wanted the quick single, was halfway down the track and had to dive full-length to make it back. But a direct hit may have proved that dive futile

19.3 - Pandya to Rahim, FOUR, Bangladesh almost have it. Rahim is almost in Pandya's face roaring in delight. Told you Rahim is good with the lap and that is exactly what he did. Back of a length around off, he moves across and gets it off the gloves to the left of Dhoni, who dived in vain. Rahim has already started celebrating

19.2 - Pandya to Rahim, FOUR, in the air and wide of extra cover. That shot gets his team-mates to stand up and applaud. Length delivery outside off, Rahim walks across his stumps and slaps it to the left of extra cover, no chance for sweeper to stop that

18.0 - Nehra to Mahmudullah, FOUR, it has been that sort of innings. Whenever India have picked a wicket, Bangladesh respond with a four or six. That is what just happened now as well. It was a juicy low full toss outside off, Mahmudullah creams the drive through extra cover, the ball scooted across the surface

17.2 - Nehra to Soumya Sarkar, FOUR, poor delivery and it has been dealt with. Drags it halfway down the wicket, Sarkar was waiting for something in his zone, pulls it flat and in front of square. There was a fielder in the deep, but he had no chance of stopping that

8.5 - Pandya to S Rahman, FOUR, streaky and four, nothing wrong with the ball, cross seam fuller length delivery outside off, Rahman was swinging across the line, gets a thick edge that races away to the third man fence

8.4 - Pandya to S Rahman, FOUR, top-edge and four, banged in short and on the stumps, Rahman was way too late on the pull, gets a fat top-edge that goes fine and beats the fielder to the fence

6.4 - Ashwin to S Rahman, FOUR, Bangladesh are running away with this now, tossed up and on the stumps, Rahman reverses his stance and gets a top-edge on the sweep, has enough to clear Bumrah at short third man and rolls away towards the fence

6.0 - Bumrah to Tamim, FOUR, fourth boundary of the over, Tamim is on the charge, comes down the track, Bumrah shortens his length a tad, Tamim went with hard hands on the drive, doesn't get hold of the shot - but finds the gap wide of mid-off

5.5 - Bumrah to Tamim, FOUR, poor ball from Bumrah, full toss outside off, Tamim threw his bat at that, gets a thick edge that runs away past Dhoni, no need to run for those

5.3 - Bumrah to Tamim, FOUR, this is getting worse for Bumrah, slower off-cutter, Tamim spotted it early, gets forward and lifts it over mid-on, one bounce and over the ropes

5.1 - Bumrah to Tamim, FOUR, this will hurt Bumrah more, short of a length and on the stumps, Tamim runs down the track, makes room as he did so and crashes it past point, no one moved

0.1 - Nehra to Tamim, FOUR, that's a poor start from India, but has Tamim injured himself? He collided with Nehra as he went across for the run, he doesn't look all that well. Remember, he sat out of the last match with sickness. Coming back to the ball, this was a friendly delivery on his pads, Tamim shuffled across and clipped it behind square on the on-side. Clumsy effort from Bumrah in the deep, he had it covered and then let it roll away to the fence. Tamim is off and running with a boundary

15.1 - Ravindra Jadeja to Soumya Sarkar, SIX, timely six for Bangladesh. The pressure that was being built up has all been released with that hit. Quicker and bowled close to 100kph, Sarkar kneels down and slog sweeps it over deep square leg. Looked like a mishit but the Bengaluru ground takes care of the rest

11.4 - Ravindra Jadeja to Shakib, SIX, Shakib keeps going at one end. A wicket falls and Shakib responds with a six. Quicker and speared across off, Shakib kneels down and nails the slog sweep over deep mid-wicket, hit it flat and into the crowd, stunned silence at the Chinnaswamy

10.5 - Pandya to Shakib, SIX, in the slot and out of the ground. Fuller and on the stumps, Shakib cleared his front leg to get a free swing of the arms, presented the straightest of bats and lofts it beautifully over deep mid-wicket

9.5 - Raina to Mortaza, SIX, that's a mighty blow from Mortaza, the crowd is silenced once again, comes down the track, gets to the pitch of the ball and drills it high and over long-on for a maximum

5.0 - Ashwin to S Rahman, SIX, poor ball and Rahman takes heavy toll of it! Ashwin dropped one short and on the stumps, Rahman is quick to rock back and pulls it high and over mid-wicket, deep into the crowd

20.0 - Pandya to Shuvagata, out Mustafizur Run Out!! India have pulled off a heist. What scenes at the Chinnaswamy. If you are an Indian supporter that is the place to be tonight. Drama, emotions and what not. Everything running high. The fireworks are going off in the background. Nehra leaped onto Dhoni once the skipper took the stumps off. Pandya is still pumped up. Please excuse me for not describing the ball. First have to mention who is doing what. Okay, with everything coming to a calm now. Here is the wicket, short of length delivery outside off, Hom has a slash and misses, Mustafizur was haring across to the other end. A run would have meant a Super Over. Dhoni, who had already taken off one glove, gathered the ball, ran forward and took couple of stumps out. Mustafizur was well short of the crease. Indians didn't seem confident at first, but started celebrating once OUT flashed on the giant screen. The crowd also waited for the decision and once they saw the roofs came down at the Chinnaswamy. Mustafizur run out (Dhoni) 0(0)

19.5 - Pandya to Mahmudullah, out Caught by Ravindra Jadeja!! Wow! Mahmudullah can't believe it. Throws his bat up in disappointment. The crowd are on their feet. Mahmudullah is relcutant to walk back. The Indians are still in it. What captaincy from Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Swapped the deep mid-wicket fielder and got his best man, Jadeja there. Any other fielder would have found it difficult. Full toss on off, Mahmudullah swings across the line and wanted to finish it with glory, gets it high on the bat and spoons towards deep mid-wicket. Jadeja covers good ground, slides and takes it with both hands. Turns towards the crowd and lets out a roar. Mahmudullah c Ravindra Jadeja b Pandya 18(22) [4s-1]

19.4 - Pandya to Rahim, out Caught by Dhawan!! Oh dear! This game doesn't fail to amaze. Rahim has his head back and looking up towards the sky. But the good thing about that wicket is Mahmudullah on strike. Another length ball from Pandya, Rahim stayed on leg-stump and pulled, got it nowhere close to the middle and it skied to deep mid-wicket. Dhawan reverse cupped it with ease. Rahim c Dhawan b Pandya 11(6) [4s-2]

17.5 - Nehra to Soumya Sarkar, out Caught by Kohli!! This game is not over yet. A rank bad delivery and Sarkar has found the fielder. The crowd find their voice again, but not the Bangladesh contingent. A full toss on off, Sarkar moves slightly to leg, swings as hard as he possible could, mistimes it to long-on, Kohli moves to his right and accepts it gleefully. Right, can Nehra finish the over well? Soumya Sarkar c Kohli b Nehra 21(21) [4s-1 6s-1]

12.1 - Ashwin to Shakib, out Caught by Raina!! Oh! The commentators curse. Just when I thought Shakib looks intent to finish the game, he perishes. India's strike bowler returns and gives them hope. Beautifully tossed up on off, Shakib had to play at that, the ball gripped and turned and all he could manage was an outside edge, Raina has those for breakfast. Excellent captaincy from Dhoni, he had a slip even though Shakib was in and it was the 13th over. Shakib c Raina b Ashwin 22(15) [6s-2]

11.1 - Ravindra Jadeja to Mortaza, out Bowled!! Jadeja. That is Dhoni's reply. But Bangladesh won't mind that. They are ahead of the game and have plenty of batsmen waiting in the shed. Mortaza backed away to leg to go inside out, Jadeja fired it in on leg-stump, turned enough to beat the outside edge and crash into middle stump. Mortaza b Ravindra Jadeja 6(5) [6s-1]

9.3 - Raina to S Rahman, wide, out Stumped!! A wicket out of nowhere and credit goes to MS for this stumping. Razor quick work from the Indian captain, Rahman lost balance momentarily and that was enough for him to whip the bails off. Rahman's feet was in the air and he gets the marching orders from the third umpire. This was a poor ball from Raina, short and miles down the leg-side, Rahman went for the flick and missed, his foot was in the air for just a second, that's enough to signal his doom. S Rahman st Dhoni b Raina 26(15) [4s-3 6s-1]

7.4 - Ravindra Jadeja to Tamim, out Stumped!! RJ gives India a lifeline, but yet another Bangladeshi batsman has thrown it away. He's a canny bowler, Jadeja, saw Tamim coming down the track, slipped in a flatter and quicker delivery outside off, the ball sneaks past Tamim's desperate lunge, kept a tad low as well. MS is quick to whip the bails off, Tamim was nowhere to be seen. Tamim st Dhoni b Ravindra Jadeja 35(32) [4s-5]

2.2 - Ashwin to Mithun, out Caught by Pandya!! Mithun has thrown his wicket away. Massive celebration from Pandya after taking the catch at wide long-on. A waste of a wicket though, Mithun gave it away all too early. Ashwin saw him coming and held this one back a bit, Mithun wasn't anywhere near the pitch of the ball, was looking to go back over the bowler's head, ends up dragging it wide of long-on, straight down the throat of Pandya. He holds on, jumps around in joy and so does the Chinnaswamy crowd. Mithun c Pandya b Ashwin 1(3)

17.0 - Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run, dropped! There goes another one. This time Dhoni is the culprit. These sort of things won't help you win games. Yorker on the stumps, Sarkar moves to leg, opens the bat face and steers it to the left of Dhoni, who dived and had it in the mitts for a second. But once he hit the ground the ball popped out

10.3 - Pandya to Shakib, 1 run, dropped! India are making it hard for themselves. This should have been taken by Ashwin. The fans can't believe it. Short and outside off, Shakib slashes it to sweeper cover, Ashwin came running in, dived forward and allowed the ball to pop out. He never looked like taking that

4.4 - Ashwin to Tamim, 1 run, Bumrah is having a shocker in the field, he has dropped a dolly now, this was tossed up on off and spun away, Tamim was looking to sweep, plays against the spin and gets a massive top-edge. It went high into the Bengaluru sky and when it came down, Bumrah was right underneath it, he waited and waited and somehow fails to hold on. The crowd is hushed into silence

0.5 - Nehra to Tamim, no run, that will go down as a chance, very tough catch though, came back at the rate of knots. Nehra hadn't even completed his followthrough, gets both hands but can't hold on. These are the sort of catches that needs to stick. On a good length and just outside off, Tamim went hard on the drive, closed the face of the bat and drilled it back at the bowler, hit Nehra's hands and popped out

18.2 - Bumrah to Mahmudullah, 1 run, Bangladeshi fans thought Mahmudullah got four there. A low full toss and he went for the paddle, bent low and picked out Nehra at short fine leg, who has a aim at the striker's end. He missed and Rahim survives