T20 World Cup 2024, BAN vs IND 47th Match, Super Eights, Group 1 Match Report, June 22, 2024

India 196 for 5 (Hardik 50*, Tanzim 2-32). Bangladesh 146 for 8 (Shanto 40, Kuldeep 3-19, Bumrah 2-13) for 50 runs

The opening conundrum

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli as a partnership have won many matches for India, but in this T20 world cup, they are yet to click. There was some confusion for a while as they ran between the wickets, Rohit not sure if there was one to the right of midwicket. It was a stop-start but they finally ran. The team will be hoping for the same to happen again as the tournament continues as the combination at the top allows India to accumulate points in the middle with six players. That benefit is to help them post par-plus totals in difficult situations.

Bright place of Bangladesh

Tanzim Hasan did everything in his power to disrupt that plan. He was Bangladesh’s best bowler and earned that mantle by doing the one thing he hated the most. He was unexpected. Kohli came charging to meet him but he hit a change of pace and allowed him to get it with a send-off. Suryakumar Yadav managed to get six balls in the first over but was overwhelmed by more strikes in the next game. Tanzim’s slow balls caught misbehaving out of the pitch. And when he keeps up the pace, he makes sure he hits the pitch hard to get the bounce variation.

Invasion of India

Rishabh Pant was a firebrand. After India went from 71 for 1 to 77 for 3, they lost nine balls without a boundary. Sometimes, in good hitting situations, that’s the price you pay. These were not good conditions to hit. The stadium and outfield were slow. They could not wait until death passed to make a difference. Fully aware of that, Pant, who was 12 out of 15, lived. The left-hand cover is usually a good thing but the one Mustafizur had to endure was something else. It was a power stripped of its pure nature. It was cool. Pant hit five boundaries in eight balls and fell for another.

The highlight

Rishad Hossain will not be denied anymore. He had to wait because the culture of Bangladesh does not measure arm spinners, (even as the whole world made it clear that they are game changers) he has come to this T20 World Cup as their most exciting cricketer. Pant’s dismissal secured Bangladesh their best innings of the match – 2.4 overs of one single and a dot between the 12th and 15th overs. He also took two wickets, both batsmen wanting to attack him. Pant pulled off a reverse sweep and Dube dropped a neck and a crop. He may have run away for a bit but he didn’t take a step back. Even when he had to bowl one of the death overs.

The chief of the hundred

Hardik broke India without a second over. They were 120 for 4 at the start of the 15th over. He was 6 of 7. Then he got a gift from Mahedi Hasan – a long hop with arm room – and that was it. A lot of his power game comes from having incredible strength in his core and shoulders. That is why he can hit even yorkers on boundaries. That’s why he doesn’t always need to wave his hands. That is why he must be more courageous than he allows himself to be now. Although he came in only in the 12th over, and faced just 18 deliveries on the 18th, his ability to reach the boundary – each of the four in the last two overs was off his bat – helped him score his fifty.

This was the kind of innings that India could never have imagined. Even the statistics proved it. Once before, in their entire history of T20Is, they have made more than the 196 they did on Saturday without even the top five batsmen scoring fifties. They are usually freight trains, slow to start, but slowly picking up steam. In this world cup, they found a new identity. Four of the seven hitters out there had a strikeout rate of 150 or more. Twenty-eight balls were the longest used in the middle because everyone was looking to take risks.

The chase

Bangladesh’s opening partnership gave away just 13 runs in the last five innings. Given how important it is to start a big chase, they were handicapped. Tanzid Hasan, coming off a back-to-back, finished under the run of the ball. Litton Das didn’t survive the powerplay, though he was bowled in by a good slow delivery from Hardik, who again made sure to pull the batter’s arc to the right, getting a foul caught in the deep. a midwife.

The batting team at 67 for 2 after 10 overs had to put up a big fight but Bangladesh got together with Kuldeep Yadav and never recovered. The googly caught Tanzid unawares for 29 off 31. The legbreak had Towhid Hridoy lbw in a slog sweep. Finally, he was also on the job when Shakib Al Hasan wanted to hit him out of the ground. A line change a little wider outside the off-stump that the left-hander batter’s arc was disturbed and he was caught outside off.

Bangladesh actually ended up attacking more balls than India did in this match – 49 to 48 – but most of them were bowling. It will show that clarity is important in T20 cricket. Kuldeep denied that because they could not take the ball from his hand. Jasprit Bumrah also played his part, with 15 of his 24 deliveries producing dots and two wickets.