India vs Bangladesh Score, Asia Cup 2018 final highlights: The Indian bowlers took some quick wickets to pull things back after Liton Das and Mehidy Hasan got Bangladesh off to a great start adding over 100 runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday evening after Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first in the Asia Cup 2018 final. Liton Das smashed his maiden century off just 87 balls as wickets kept falling from the other end. Kedar Jadhav was the pick of the Indian bowlers and picked wickets at crucial times. The Indian cricket team made five changes to the playing XI with Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar all making a comeback. Bangladesh also made one change to the team with left-arm spinner Nazmul Islam coming in for Mominul.
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Here are the playing XIs for India vs Bangladesh, Asia Cup 2018 final:
India – Rohit Sharma(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w), Dinesh Karthik, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Lokesh Rahul, Manish Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Siddarth Kaul, K Khaleel Ahmed
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Bangladesh – Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mehidy Hasan, Nazmul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman
Bhuvneswar Kumar out. Goes for 23 runs. He is caught by Mushfiqur Rahim off the bowling of Rubel Hossain. India has now lost 7th wicket. It's a tight situation now for both teams.
Ravindra Jadeja out. He goes for 23 runs. He is caught by Mushfiqur Rahim off the bowling of Rubel Hossain. Kedar Jadhav who was injured earlier while batting is now back at the crease.
It's a close contest now. Men in Blue now need India need 27 runs of 32 balls. Both batsmen in the middle Ravindra Jadeja and Bhuvneswar Kumar and batting carefully. The match is evenly poised at the moment.
India: 178/5
B Kumar - 4* (10)
Ravindra Jadeja - 7* (12)
Big wicket for Bangladesh as MS Dhoni goes for 36 runs. He is caught by Mushfiqur Rahim off the bowling of Mustafizur Rahman. Nhuvneswar Kumar at the crease. India now 56 runs off 11.4 overs with 5 wickets in hand.
Jadhav shows his intentions. Hists a six off the bowling of Mahmudullah. India now 147/4. Need 76 runs to win with six wickets in hand with 17 overs remaining. Dhoni on 32 runs and Jadhav is os batting on 10 runs.
Karthik out as India lose 4th wicket. He is bowled by Mahmudullah for 37 runs. Next batsman in is Kedar Jadhav. Men in Blue now in 84 runs to win with six wickets in hand in remaining 19 overs.
MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik put on 50 runs partnership for India. Doni is batting on 29 runs and Karthik on 37 runs. Men in Blue now need 88 runs to win with seven wickets in hand.
India: 125/3
MS Dhoni - 25* (38)
Dinesh Karthik - 32* (49)
Experienced batsmen MS Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik have put on the partnership of 35 runs till now. While Dhoni is on 23 runs Karthik is batting on 29 runs. India now need 103 runs to win in 24 overs with 7 wickets in hand. Match evenly poised at the moment.
Team India need 124 runs to win against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup final. While Dhoni is batting on 10 runs, Karthik is on 25 runs. Current partnership between the two batsmen is 20 runs.
India: 90/3
MS Dhoni - 3 (10)
Dinesh Karthik - 19 (34)
OUT! Rohit goes for 48! caught out by Nazmul Islam. India lose the third wicket. It was a short delivery and Rohit went for his favourite pull shot but the ball went straight into Islam's hands. Rubel gave the third breakthrough for Bangladesh.
India - 79/2 (15)
Rohit Sharma - 47 (50)
Dinesh Karthik - 13(19)
It's MAXIMUM! Rohit Sharma hits 3rd six for India. It was Rubel who was punished for pitching a shortfall to someone who plays pull shots so nicely.
India - 67/2 (13)
Rohit Sharma - 39 (42)
Dinesh Karthik - 9(15)
Just one run in 11th over! Rubel Hossain was on the attack and five dot deliveries to Rohit. After losing two wickets, India is under pressure and batting cautiously.
India - 57/2 (10)
Rohit Sharma - 36 (31)
Dinesh Karthik - 3 (8)
India put up 50 on the scoreboard in 52 balls. India- 52/2 after 9 overs. From here, the Men in Blue need 171 runs from 41 overs.
India - 48/2 (8)
Rohit Sharma - 29 (24)
Dinesh Karthik - 1 (3)
India lose second wicket. Ambati Rayudu goes for 2! He was caught by Rahim. Pressure back India. Now, Rohit will have to build a partnership from here.
OUT! Shikhar Dhawan goes for 15, caught by Soumya Sarkar. Poor shot. It wasn't needed. Just a ball before he had hit a four. Shikhar was looking in control.
First SIX for India! And guess who - It's Rohit Sharma, the hitman!
Shikhar Dhawan hits a cracking FOUR! 7 runs come in Mustafizur Rahman's second over. India - 24/0 after 4 overs.
Mehidy Hasan is on the attack. Rohit hits his second boundry to backward square leg. India 17/0 after 3 overs.
Expensive over for Bangladesh! Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan open for India. Two boundaries in the first over. Both the openers open in style. India- 10/0 after one over.
That's it! Bumrah gets rid of Rubel Hossain and India restricts Bangladesh for just 222 runs. It was a great chance for Bangladesh to post a big total and put India under some pressure, especially after the opening partnership of 120 runs. But, the middle-order went on a self-destruction mode, playing some reckless strokes and threw their wickets away. Kuldeep Yadav was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets to his name.
The target for India is 223.
Another run out for India. Soumya Sarkar departs for 33. This time it is Ambati Rayudu who pulls it off. Bangladesh is on a self-destruction mode.
Legendary Indian spinner Harbhajan spinner is full of praises for Indian spinners. The turbanator tweets:
India is blessed to have probably the best death bowling pair in the world and Bangladesh is finding it tough to score against them. The score is 218/8 and only 15 balls remain.
What is Bangladesh doing! A run out was the last thing they needed at this moment. Poor cricket from Soumya Sarkar and Nazmul Islam. The latter has to depart for 7.
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Only 24 balls remain and Bangladesh is at 210. If they want to reach the 250-run mark, Soumya Sarkar will have to come up with something special here. Anything less than that should be a cakewalk for India.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has completed his 800th dismissal in international cricket. He becomes the first player from the subcontinent and only the third overall after Mark Boucher and Adam Gilchrist to do so.
Bangladesh - 196/7 (43)
Soumya Sarkar - 19 (31)
Nazmul Islam - 0 (1)
Mashrafe Mortaza departs for 7. Beautiful bowling from Kuldeep. The Bangladesh skipper had hit him for a six but the spinner wasn't afraid of tossing the ball up. He did it again and this time was rewarded with a big wicket.
It needed something special to get rid of Liton Das and MS Dhoni is special indeed. The former Indian skipper pulled off an incredible stumping that may cost some controversy in the coming days. Having said that, the Bangladesh opener played well for his 121 runs.
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza is the new batsman in.
We are into the business end of the innings and the good news for Bangladesh is that both its batsmen are still in. The partnership is of 27 runs from 46 balls. Ideally, Bangladesh would like to score at least 80 runs from the final 10 overs and it would take it past 250 for sure. But, that should not be enough on this pitch.
Bangladesh - 168/5 (39)
Soumya Sarkar - 10 (25)
Liton Das - 109 (109)
This is an important partnership for BBangladesh Remember, they are one batsman short today which means Liton Das and Soumya Sarkar are the last recognised batting pair. They should look to take the innings to the last five overs.