Bangladesh won with 6 wickets
MIRPUR: Bangladesh upstaged India in a closely contested tie here. They defeated India by 6 wickets thus overshadowing Sachin’s rare feat of century of centuries. The Asia cup is thrown wide open with this result with India in a must min situation against Pakistan on March 18.
The heroes of Bangladeshi win were opener Tamim Iqbal (70) Jahurul Islam (53) and Shakib Al Hasan (49) as they batted with sheer grit to pull an improbable win. Mushfiqur played a captain’s knock and hit fiery 46 off 25 balls and was well supported by Nasir who hit 54.
Earlier, Bangladesh win the toss and invited India to bat, India lost Gautam Gambhir early.
Tendulkar and Virat Kohli (66) added 148 runs for the second wicket.Tendulkar looked in fine touch as he hit some crisp shots on both sides of the wicket.
He completed his 50 off 63 balls.The Tendulkar-Raina partnership for the third wicket yielded 86 runs in a 10.5 overs. Sachin completed his century in 138 balls. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni blasted a couple boundaries to take India past 280.
