Sports Desk: There was a fear of rain from earlier. Finally, the rain came down at the end of the seventh over of Bangladesh’s innings. Game stuck. Finally the batting storm of Liton Das stopped. But this rain came as a curse for Bangladesh. At the end of the seventh over, Bangladesh collected 66 runs without a wicket. Bangladesh will win only if the game is not played in this condition. At the end of the same amount of overs, India’s runs were 49, Bangladesh will win the match by 17 runs ahead of them.
Earlier, Bangladesh went into bat with a huge target of 185 runs. Runs per over were required at 9.25. Liton Das and Nazmul Hossain Shanto got off to a flying start as per the demand.
Shanta was very calm compared to Lytton. But Liton has been given worthy company by Shanta. He supported Lyton by keeping a quiet wicket with Lyton, who picked up a fifty off just 21 balls.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s first over bowled by two Tiger openers. Liton scored 12 runs by hitting three boundaries in the next over off Arshdeep Singh.
Only 2 runs came from Bhubaneswar’s first over. In the third over of the Indian pacer’s innings, Liton wanted to make up for the score of the previous over. Liton scored 16 runs from this over with 1 consecutive six and 2 fours. On the fifth ball of the over, Liton got life once, Dinesh Karthik could not properly collect the ball that touched the edge of the Tiger opener’s bat.
Coming to the bowling in the fourth over, Mohammad Shami, however, was played by the tiger openers. 5 runs come from this over.
Bhuvneshwar came to bowl again in the fifth over. Liton survived the run out of the second ball. Kohli’s direct throw broke the stumps, but Liton reached the crease before that. Lyton took 9 runs from this over by hitting a great six through square leg on the fifth ball of the over.
Rohit Sharma handed the ball to Shami again in the last over of the power play. Liton picked up his own fifty in just 21 balls with four consecutive sixes in the first two balls of the over. Bangladesh scored 16 runs in the last over of the power play on another boundary in the fourth all of the over.
At the end of six overs of power play, Bangladesh are 60 runs down without a wicket. When Akshar Patel bowled in the seventh over, Bangladesh scored 6 runs from his over.
After that, the rain started pouring down the skies of Adelaide. Both teams have to leave the field. And that is the benefit of Bangladesh. At the end of the seventh over, Bangladesh is 17 runs ahead of India according to par score. Bangladesh will win by 17 runs if the game is not played again in the field.
