Rain and India D(hon)isappoint Bangladesh

India made three changes to their playing eleven – Pawan Negi, Harbhajan Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar made way for Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ashwin Nehra.

Bangladesh (Moham)made three changes to their playing eleven – Mithun, Imrul Kayes and Mustafizur Rahman made way for Tamim Iqbal, Nasir Hossain and Abu Hider.

On winning the toss, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, inserted the hosts.

Owing to rain before the start of play, the match was reduced to a 15-overs-a-side match.

The Powerplay of Bangladesh’s innings – which was the mandatory over – was between the first and the fifth over. They scored 30, and lost a couple of wickets.

Soumya Sarkar, whose nine-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 14. Four overs into the match, he was caught by Hardik Pandya. Ashish Nehra broke the 27-run stand.

Iqbal, whose 17-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 13. He was trapped leg be‘four’ wicket by Jasprit Bumrah, who broke the three-run stand.

Bangladesh scored 50 off 7.3 overs (45 balls). India had conceded a couple of extras at that point.

Sabbir Rahman, the player of the match, scored 32 off 29 balls, which included a couple of boundaries. He was unbeaten.

Shakib Al Hasan, whose 16-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 21. Twenty-seven balls later, he was caught by Bumrah. Ravichandran Ashwin broke the 34-run stand.

The fourth-wicket pair put on 11. Mushfiqur Rahim, who faced five balls, scored four. Fourteen balls later, Virat Kohli and Dhoni ran him out.

The fifth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladesh’s skipper, faced a ball, failing to open his account. The next ball, he was caught by Virat Kohli off the bowling of Ravindra Jadeja.

Bangladesh scored 100 off 13.2 overs (80 balls). India had conceded a couple of extras at that point.

Mahmudullah, whose 13-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and as many sixes, scored 33. He was unbeaten.

India eventually conceded three extras. Bangladesh scored 120 for the loss of five wickets off 15 overs.

Each of the five bowlers bowled three wickets apiece. Pandya, who was wicketless, conceded 35. Nehra, Jadeja, Ashwin, and Bumrah picked up a wicket apiece. They conceded 33, 25, 14, and 13, respectively.

The Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory over – was between the first and the fifth over. They scored 33, and lost a wicket.

Rohit Sharma, who faced five balls, scored a run. Nine balls into the chase, he was caught by Sarkar. Al-Amin Hossain broke the five-run stand.

India scored 50 off 6.3 overs (39 balls). Bangladesh hadn’t conceded any extras at that point. In fact, they didn’t concede any extras.

The second-wicket pair put on 50 off 32 balls. While the contribution of Shikhar Dhawan, the player of the match, to the partnership was 27, Kohli’s contribution to it was 32. Extras didn’t contribute to the partnership.

Dhawan’s half-century – which included eight boundaries and a six – came off 35 balls. He eventually scored 60 off 44 balls, which included nine boundaries, in addition to the six. Sixty-seven balls after Sharma’s dismissal, he was caught by Sarkar. Taskin Ahmed broke the 94-run partnership.

India scored 100 off 12.5 overs (77 balls).

Kohli, whose 28-ball innings included five boundaries, scored 41. He was unbeaten, as was Dhoni, who scored 20. His six-ball innings included a boundary and a couple of sixes.

India, who scored 122 for the loss of a couple of wickets off 13.5 overs, won by eight wickets with seven balls to spare.

Hider, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded 14. Shakib and Mortaza bowled two wicketless apiece. While the former conceded 26, the latter conceded 16. Nasir, who bowled three wicketless overs, conceded 22.

Al-Amin, who bowled 2.5 overs, conceded 30. He picked up a wicket, as did Ahmed, who bowled three overs, conceded 14.

India won the 2015/16 Asia Cup.