T20 World Cup: India edge closer to semis after clinching rain-hit thriller against Bangladesh

India beat Bangladesh by 5 runs (DLS) in a rain-hit thriller in Group 2 at the Adelaide Oval on Wednesday. Batting first, India set a target of 185 which was revised to 151 in 16 overs under the DLS method. 

Wicket-keeper Nurul Hasan and Bowler Taskin Ahmed dragged back Bangladesh to a thrilling last-ball finish taking Bangladesh to 145 for 6, falling 5 runs short of the revised target.

The win took India to the top of the table in Group 2 and a step closer to the semifinals after India and Bangladesh both began Wednesday’s crunch match level on points (4 points in 3 games), while Bangladesh’s hopes for a semi-final birth crashed as the threw away the game from a winning position.

India: Rohit Sharma (capt), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami and Arshdeep Singh.

Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Najmul Hossain Shanto, Litton Das, Afif Hossain, Yasir Ali, Mosaddek Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Nurul Hasan (wk), Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud and Taskin Ahmed.