IND vs BAN Highlights, Champions Trophy 2025
Indian bowlers led by Shami performed brilliantly and restricted Bangladesh to 228 runs in 49.4 overs. In reply, India won the match by scoring 231 runs for four wickets in 46.3 overs, thanks to Gill’s unbeaten 101 runs off 129 balls with the help of nine fours and two sixes.
After the brilliant bowling of fast bowler Mohammad Shami, vice-captain Shubman Gill’s excellent century helped India to a winning start to the tournament by defeating Bangladesh by six wickets in their first match of the Champions Trophy. Led by Shami, the Indian bowlers performed brilliantly and restricted Bangladesh to 228 runs in 49.4 overs. In reply, India won the match by scoring 231 runs for four wickets in 46.3 overs, thanks to Gill’s unbeaten 101 runs off 129 balls with the help of nine fours and two sixes.
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While Tauhid Hridoy scored a century for Bangladesh and took the team to a respectable score, Gill also scored the eighth century of his ODI career and led the team to victory. Gill was well supported by KL Rahul in the end. Rishad Hussain took two wickets for Bangladesh, while Taskin Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman got one wicket each.
India’s Innings
While chasing the target, captain Rohit Sharma and Gill gave India a good start, but Rohit was out after scoring 41 runs. Rohit, however, completed 11000 runs in ODIs and became the fourth Indian batsman to reach this milestone. After this, the team lost the wickets of Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, and Axar Patel. Kohli scored 22 runs, Shreyas scored 15 and Axar scored eight runs. After this, KL Rahul along with Gill made an unbeaten partnership of 87 runs for the fifth wicket. KL Rahul remained unbeaten after scoring 41 runs in 47 balls with the help of one four and two sixes.
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Eighth Century in The Least Number of Innings
Gill batted brilliantly against Bangladesh. Gill was in good form in the three-match ODI series against England before the Champions Trophy and he maintained this rhythm here as well. Gill completed his eighth century in 51 innings and became the batsman to reach the eighth ODI century in the least number of innings for India. He surpassed Shikhar Dhawan in this matter, who had completed his eighth century in ODIs in 57 innings.
Not only this, Gill is the second batsman from India and the fifth overall to score a century against Bangladesh in the Champions Trophy. Before Gill, Joe Root, Rohit Sharma, Upul Tharanga and Chris Gayle have scored centuries against this team in the Champions Trophy. Gill may have scored a century, but this is the fourth slowest century by a batsman for India in ODIs since 2019. Gill scored a century in 125 balls and is fourth on this list.
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Superb Partnership of Hridoy-Zakir
Earlier, Bangladesh set a target of 229 runs for India to win with the help of Tauheed Hridoy’s century and Zakir Ali’s half-century. Batting first after winning the toss, Bangladesh’s situation was bad at one time and they lost five wickets for just 35 runs, but Zakir and Hridoy handled the Bangladesh innings with a superb partnership. The 154-run partnership for the sixth wicket between Zakir Ali and Tauheed Hridoy is the highest partnership for the sixth or lower order wicket in the Champions Trophy. Hridoy returned to the pavilion after scoring 100 runs in 118 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes.
Shami Completes 200 Wickets
Indian team’s fast bowler Mohammed Shami performed brilliantly in the Champions Trophy match against Bangladesh. He has become the bowler to complete 200 wickets in ODI in the least number of balls. Shami achieved this feat in 5126 ODI balls. In this matter, Shami left behind Australia’s star fast bowler Mitchell Starc who completed 200 ODI wickets in 5240 balls.
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