ICC World Twenty20, Bangalore:
India 146-7 (20 overs): Raina 30,
Mustafizur 2-34.
Bangladesh 145-9 (20 overs):
Tamim 35, R Ashwin 2-20
India won by one run
Bangalore - India scraped to a one-run
victory in World Twenty20 over Bangladesh on Wednesday with wicket-keeper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni out Mustafizur Rahman with the last ball of the game.
The tournament's hosts had been
on the verge of suffering their first ever T20 defeat to Bangladesh but they
took three wickets in the last three balls of the match in Bangalore.
The hosts second win of the event
puts second in Group 2, but third-placed Australia has a game in hand.
Seven of the nine batters India,
have reached double figures, with 9 fours and 6 sixes, but Suresh Raina 30 was the
highest score in his modest 146-7.
Needing 11 from the end and on
two of three balls, the Tigers lost three wickets in the last three balls.
India’s final group match is against
the Australians in Chandigarh on Sunday, while Bangladesh face the already
qualified New Zealand in Calcutta a day earlier.
Tigers throw it away
Bangladesh had lost all four
previous T20 encounters with India, but seemed destined for a famous victory
that would have left all four teams in the group bidding to join the Kiwis in
the semifinals level on two points.
Wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim had
clubbed the second ball end Hardik Pandya to the border of the cover and some
additionally collected four last glove counterpart MS Dhoni diving.
However, a Mushfiqur fueled by
adrenaline tried to finish the game in style and holed out to deep mid-stop,
Mahmudullah suffered the same fate and Dhoni calmly ran to the stumps to
frustrate the search for Mustafizur Rahman for a week break that would have
forced a super more.
: Raina 30, Mustafizur 2-34. Bangladesh 145-9 (20 overs): Tamim 35, R Ashwin 2-20 ...){kind=link}
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