India captain Virat Kohli did not hesitate in electing to bat first against Bangladesh at Edgbaston since the match is being played on the same pitch where the India-England match took place on Sunday.
Rohit Sharma and Lokesh Rahul opened the innings for India. Bangladesh needed a quick breakthrough to prevent Rohit or Lokesh to settle and score big.
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza made a bowling change in just the third over of the innings by bringing on Mustafizur Rahman replacing himself. And Rohit gave away a chance in the fourth ball of the fifth over as he tried to clear the boundary with a pull shot.
It was a short of length delivery from Mustafiz and Rohit got the timing wrong. It was heading high in the deep square leg region.
Tamim Iqbal was fielding there and he covered almost 15 meters and got some time to take the catch.
But in the end, he dropped the sitter, a very unusual thing for a fielder like him.
It proved costly for Bangladesh as Rohit went on to score 104 runs and formed a 180-run opening partnership, the highest opening stand in the tournament so far, with KL Rahul.
MATCH 40
INDIA INNINGS R B
Rahul c Mushfiqur b Rubel 77 92
Rohit c Liton b Soumya 104 92
Kohli c Rubel b Mustafizur 26 27
Pant c Mosaddek b Shakib 48 41
Pandya c Soumya b Mustafizur0 2
Dhoni c Shakib b Mustafizur 35 33
Karthik c Mosaddek b Mustafizur 8 9
Bhuvneshwar run out 2 3
Shami b Mustafizur 1 2
Bumrah not out 0 0
Extras (lb6, nb1, w6) 13
Total (50 overs) 314/9
Fall Of Wickets
1-180, 2-195, 3-237, 4-237, 5-277, 6-298, 7-311, 8-314, 9-314
Bowling
Mashrafe 5-0-36-0, Saifuddin 7-0-59-0, Mustafizur 10-1-59-5, Shakib 10-0-41-1, Mosaddek 4-0-32-0, Rubel 8-0-48-1, Soumya 6-0-33-1
BANGLADESH INNINGS R B
Tamim b Shami 22 31
Soumya c Kohli b Pandya 33 38
Shakib c Karthik b Pandya 66 74
Mushfiq c Shami b Chahal 24 23
Liton c Karthik b Pandya 22 24
Mosaddek b Bumrah 3 7
Sabbir b Bumrah 36 36
Saifuddin not out 51 38
Mashrafe c Dhoni b Bhuvneshwar 8 5
Rubel b Bumrah 9 11
Mustafizur b Bumrah 0 1
Extras (1b, 1lb, 10w) 12
Total (48 overs) 286 all out
Fall Of Wickets
1-39, 2-74, 3-121, 4-162, 5-173, 6-179, 7-245, 8-257, 9-286, 10-286
Bowling
Bhuvneshwar 9-0-51-1, Bumrah 10-1-55-4, Shami 9-0-68-1, Chahal 10-0-50-1, Pandya 10-0-60-3
India won by 28 runs
MoM: Rohit Sharma
