India defeated Bangladesh by 7 wickets in the first game of Super Four stage at Dubai Internaional Cricket Stadium in Dubai. Rohit Sharma asked Bangladesh to bat first and bowlers gave a perfect start to India and reduced Bangladesh to 101/7 at one stage.
Mehidy Hasan and Mashrafe Mortaza put up a fight and added 66 runs for the 8th wicket and eventually Bangladesh got bowled out for just 173 runs in the 50th over. In the chase, India started well and chased down the target in 37th over by 7 wickets. Captain Rohit Sharma remained unbeaten on 83. Ravindra Jadeja who played his first ODI after 13 months took a 4-wicket haul and was named Man of the Match.
All the major stats and facts from the first match of Super Four between India and Bangladesh :
2 - This was the only 2nd instance when both Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal went wicketless in the same ODI match. They also went wicketless against England at Leeds in July this year.
4 - Number of catches Shikhar Dhawan took in this match - only the seventh Indian fielder to take 4 catches in an ODI match.
Indian fielders who have taken 4 catches in an ODI match -
Sunil Gavaskar vs Pakistan at Sharjah, 22 March 1985
Mohammad Azharuddin vs Pakistan at Toronto, 13 September 1997
Sachin Tendulkar vs Pakistan at Dhaka, 11 January 1998
Rahul Dravid vs West Indies at Toronto, 14 September 1999
Mohammad Kaif vs Sri Lanka at Johannesburg, 10 March 2003
VVS Laxman vs Zimbabwe at Perth, 3 February 2004
Shikhar Dhawan vs Bangladesh at Dubai, 21 September 2018
4/29 - Ravindra Jadeja's bowling figures of 4/29 are the 5th best bowling figures for India in Asia Cup history.
Best bowling figures for India in Asia Cup (ODI format) -
5/21 - Arshad Ayub vs Pakistan at Dhaka, 1988
4/6 - Virender Sehwag vs Bangladesh at Dambulla, 2010
4/17 - Venkatesh Prasad vs Pakistan at Colombo, 1997
4/23 - Piyush Chawla vs Hong Kong at Karachi, 2008
4/29 - Ravindra Jadeja vs Bangladesh at Dubai, 2018
10 - This 7-wicket win was India's 10th win from 11 ODI matches over Bangladesh in Asia Cup.
56.44 - Rohit Sharma's batting average against Bangladesh in ODI cricket. He has scored 508 runs in 11 innings with 2 hundreds and fifties each.
156 - Number of Sixes Rohit Sharma has hit in ODIs as opener - the second most for India after Sachin Tendulkar and fourth most in the world.
Most sixes in ODIs as opener -
Chris Gayle - 272
Sanath Jayasuriya - 263
Sachin Tendulkar - 167
Rohit Sharma - 156
Adam Gilchrist - 144
