Shubman Gill’s 8th Ton And Mohammed Shami’s 5-Wicket Haul Claimed A Fine Victory For India Against Bangladesh .

INDIA Vs BANGLADESH , 2ND MATCH, GROUP A, DUBAI , ICC CHAMPION TROPHY 2025: Shubman Gill’s 8th Ton And Mohammed Shami’s 5-Wicket Haul Claimed A Fine Victory For India Against Bangladesh .

Mohammed Shami and Shubman Gill were the stars as India comfortably overcame Bangladesh by 6 wickets in their Champions Trophy campaign opener in Dubai on Thursday. Mohammed Shami set several records as India dismissed Bangladesh for 228, after the side chose to bat first. Shami claimed 5 for 53 from 10 overs. Bangladesh were at one stage 35 for 5 but showed fighting spirit to put on a decent score, thanks to Towhid Hridoy (100) and Jaker Ali (68). In the chase, Rohit Sharma and Gill gave India a good start. Captain collapsed with score of 41 but Gill scored an unbeaten hundred (101) to seal the deal for India. Next up for the side is Pakistan on February 23, also at the same venue. Bangladesh face New Zealand the following day in Rawalpindi. Shubman Gill’s 8th Ton And Mohammed Shami’s 5-Wicket Haul Claimed A Fine Victory For India Against Bangladesh .

TOSS-

Bangladesh won the toss, choosing to bat.

TEAMS LINE UP-

INDIA-

Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav

BANGLADESH-

Tanzid Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman

BANGLADESH-

This game was a one-sided affair in the context of Bangladesh. Shami and Harshit Rana dented the batting line-up as the Bangladesh were just 2/2 after their 2 overs . With things getting only worse ever since Axar Patel was introduced inside the powerplay. Bowling left-armer, he dismissed Tanzim Hasan and the veteran Mushfiqur Rahim off successive deliveries and should have had a hat-trick too as Jaker Ali had an outside edge to first slip that Rohit Sharma dropped in routine fashion. Bangladesh, who lost half their side for just 35 in that one-sided period of play.

Desperately searching for a partnership, the batting side encountered two saviours in the shape of Jaker and Hridoy. With time still remaining, the two batters were happy to see out overs so that Bangladesh could not collapse cheaply. Boundaries were difficult to obtain in those middle overs against India’s spin trio and with no risks being taken, Rohit even tried to break the partnership by re-introducing pace. The ploy didn’t work as the duo slowly increased their confidence and even raised their respective half-centuries.

Gradually, Hridoy began to show some aggression by bringing up a couple of boundaries including sixes of back-to-back overs. With that the run rate crossed 4 for the first time in their innings at the 40-th over. That threat started becoming bigger as Shami dismissed Jaker to break a 154-run stand. Rishad Hossain’s mini cameo took the total past 200 but Bangladesh failed to get the finish they would have hoped for with Hridoy running out of steam due to cramps. Although he could only add one more to his tally and take the team to the 3-figure mark, Shami ended and ended the fives.

INDIA-

If there was a surprise in 21 wickets falling, it was not the volume so much as it coming at just 228 in the first place, Bangladesh put under it early by Rohit and Gill’s early assault on the bowling attack in the PowerPlay. Gill began with a boundary very early in his innings but it was Rohit who actually did most of the scoring in the early going. A couple of boundaries off Mustafizur Rahman took him past 11000 runs in the format. He warmed up to the left-arm seamer by smashing him for five more boundaries off the next two overs to race to 37. Tanzim Hasan was then greeted back into the attack with a six over deep midwicket by Gill as India raced to 65/0 in the opening nine overs.

Rohit’s charge was checked in the final over of the fielding restrictions, with the Indian skipper mistiming one off Taskin Ahmed. In the next ten overs though the scoring rate came down a lot as Bangladesh took a spin option. Both Gill and Virat Kohli were watchful on a surface that had begun showing enough indications that it was slowing down and there was no actual scoreboard pressure. But that phase of watchfulness brought about a couple of wickets that left India looking for the leap. Kohli, for one, was the first to depart as he fell to a legspinner once again, and then Shreyas Iyer miscued the other to bring Mustafizur a sigh of relief on a night he wouldn’t want to remember too much as he kept leaking runs.

 

Axar was stuck again As it was spin that dominated the proceedings, Axar was trying to make an impact yet again but could not connect cleanly with a googly and lost his wicket. And with India still needing 85 at that point, another wicket would’ve sensationally swayed the match yet further. But even as Gill was off to a flyer at the other end, Rahul carried on in a similar fashion and bided his time by just nudging the ball around a lot.

Jaker made matters worse for them as he returned a Hyderabad favour — he dropped Rahul when the chasing side still needed 63 at a crucial juncture. Rishad was the one against whom a release shot was executed as he was hammered over long on by Rahul for a six. Boundaries then started to come regularly as Gill reached the 90s with a glorious pick up shot that cleared the deep midwicket fence. Just before Rahul flexed his muscles to kill the game off with yet another big six, Gill completed his slowest and perhaps his most consequential ODI hundred to date in terms of the stage.

Brief scores:

Bangladesh 228 in 49.4 overs (Towhid Hridoy 100, Jaker Ali 68; Mohammed Shami 5/53, Harshit Rana 3/31) lost to India 231/4 in 46.3 overs (Shubman Gill 101\*, KL Rahul 41\*; Rishad Hossain 2/38) by six wickets .