India easily defeated Bangladesh by 7 wickets in the event. 4th win in a row. In the match played in Pune, Bangladesh’s acting captain Najamul Hassan Shanto won the toss and decided to bat first in place of the injured Shakibul Hasan. Openers Tanzid Hasan and Laton Das played well in the opening overs. Deprived the bowlers of taking wickets and put up a partnership of 93 runs. India got their first breakthrough in the 15th over when Tanzeed was left lbw trying to sweep Kuldeep, who scored 51 runs off 43 balls with three sixes and five fours before being dismissed. After the fall of the wicket, the pace of runs slowed down and Bangladesh scored only 17 runs in the next 5 overs. India did not have to wait long for the second wicket either and Najamul Hussain, who made the mistake of playing Jadeja’s ball on the back foot, was declared LBW. India got their third win thanks to Mohammad Siraj, whose leg-side ball was caught by Lokesh Rahul to get Mehdi Hasan Miraz to run. The Bangladesh team, trying to recover from three losses, suffered a real blow when Liton Das, who scored 66 runs, became Jadeja’s second wicket.
After the fall of 4 wickets, Tawheed Hari Doy was joined by Bangladesh’s most experienced batsman Mushfiqur Rahim and both took the score to 179 but on the same score, Shirdal Thakur gave his team their fifth win and Hari Doy’s work was done. done. Mushfiq completed the team’s double century along with Mahmudullah by playing an innings of 38 runs, but at a total score of 201, Jasprit Bumrah controlled Mushfiq with the help of Jadeja. In the final overs, Mahmudullah showed aggressive batting and played an innings of 46 runs off 36 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 3 fours, thanks to which Bangladesh scored 256 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated overs. Bumrah, Siraj and Jadeja took two wickets each for India.
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Chasing the target, Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shibman Gill once again gave their team a good start and batted aggressively to score 80 runs in 12 overs. Rohit Sharma scored 48 runs but was caught on the boundary in an attempt to hit Hasan Mehmood for a six on a total of 88.
Virat Kohli took the aggressive approach as soon as he came into the field and scored 13 runs off the first four balls while Shibman Gill was in full form from the other end as he scored his first fifty in the World Cup. India’s second loss was a total of 132 when Shibman Gul, who scored 53 runs, lost the wicket after failing to play a big shot. Kohli held on from the second end but Shreyas Iyer’s stay at the wicket was short-lived and Mehdi Hasan ended his 19-run innings to give his side their third win.
In the match, the Bangladesh bowlers could not pose a threat to the Indian team at any point and failed miserably to stop scoring runs. Lokesh Rahul also continued his fine form and put on another 83-run partnership with Virat Kohli to take his team to an easy 7-wicket victory.
Virat Kohli scored his 47th century in ODI cricket by hitting a six off the last ball to make the match memorable. Kohli scored 103 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 6 fours while Rahul played a turn of 34 runs.
India secured their fourth consecutive victory in the event with 51 balls to spare. Kohli was adjudged Man of the Match for his brilliant century. Both the teams for the match consisted of these players.
Bangladesh: Najam Hussain Shanto, (captain), Laton Das, Tanzeed Hasan, Mehdi Hasan Miraz, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tawheed Hardoi, Mahmudullah, Tasin Ahmed, Sharaful Islam, Mustafizur Rehman, Nasim Ahmed.
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shibman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardal Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj