India demonstrated its dominance in Twenty20 cricket and regained continental supremacy, downing host Bangladesh by eight wickets in the final of the Asia Cup at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium here on Sunday.
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Dhawan and Kohli went on to play positively and stitched together a 94-run stand for the second wicket.
In the first stage, the match was delayed due to rain and due to the delay match was reduced as 15 over’s match.
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza is dejected that his team was not able to gift the cricket insane home fans a victory which would have been “huge” for them but at the same time wants to quickly shrug off the disappointment ahead of their ICC World T20 campaign. Then in the last over’s of the match, Dhoni accompanied Virat Kohil and made India to the win its 6 Asia cup.
India are playing 2012 World T20 champions West Indies in a warm-up game on Thursday and Dhoni felt his team was on track.
India were dominant in their win against Bangladesh in the final, chasing 121 with eight wickets in hand and seven balls to spare.
Rohit Sharma (1) departed early and since that point it was Kohli and Dhawan who anchored the innings and moved the ship closer towards the target. Both Mahmudullah and Sabbir Rehman remain unbeaten on 33 and 32 runs.
India won the toss and chose to field, which was a good decision from MS Dhoni, keeping in mind the wet conditions on field and overcast weather.
Kolkata: Indian skipper MS Dhoni, who had once again proved himself as an able finisher in the final of Asia Cup T20 against Banglaesh has said that he would continue his role as a finisher in World T20.
India found success through Ashish Nehra who got Soumya Sarkar (14) in the second over before young pacer Jasprit Bumrah dismissed the other opener, Tamim Iqbal. They played really well, we have exciting batsmen and bowlers, hopefully this team will carry on from here.
Clouds had started to gather from around 5:30pm before it grew into a storm, locally known as the Kal Boishakhi which is quite usual during spring time in Bangladesh.
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Dhawan bagged the player of the match award while Sabbir Rahman, the tournament’s leading run-getter, was awarded with the Man of the Tournament Trophy.
