Asia Cup 2018: Final, India vs Bangladesh – Statistical Preview

Team India has just eased through the Asia Cup except in the matches against Hong Kong and Afghanistan where they rested their key players. Their bowling attack and the openers will be gearing up for the Bangladesh challenge after taking a break in the previous match. It won’t be any easy for the opponents to handle the Indian openers who schooled Pakistan’s bowling twice in two games. They will surely have a chance if they can expose the Indian middle-order early on who are already under pressure of securing their places in the team.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of the big final between India and Bangladesh:

4 – India and Bangladesh faced off in four knockout matches of a tournament in International cricket. The Men n Blue came out on the top in all the four instances.

5 – Bangladesh has played four times in the final of an International tournament including twice against India. They were on the losing side in all those five matches including twice in 2018 already.

5-3 – India’s win-loss record in the ODI tournament finals in the last ten years. They faced Sri Lanka in six of those eight finals.

7-2 – Bangladesh’s win-loss record in ODI format while batting first in 2018. The Bangladesh team won all the seven games in which they posted 200+ totals while batting first this year.

65.28 – Shikhar Dhawan’s batting average in major ODI tournaments (Asia Cup, CWC and CT). The left-hander has scored 1632 runs in 26 innings with seven centuries and six fifties.

96 – Number of wickets Bhuvneshwar Kumar has taken in his ODI career. The pacer needs four more wickets to become the 19th Indian to bag 100 wickets in ODI cricket.

194* – Rohit Sharma has scored 194 runs in his last two ODI innings without being dismissed. He has scored three fifties in his last three innings: 111*, 83*, 52. If Rohit scores a half-century in the final, he will be the first captain to score four consecutive fifties in the Asia Cup.

249 – Number of wickets Mashrafe Mortaza has taken in his ODI career thus far. He needs one more wicket to become the first Bangladesh player to take 250 ODI wickets.

297 – Mushfiqur Rahim’s 297 runs in this tournament are the most by a Bangladesh player in an Asia Cup edition surpassing Tamim Iqbal’s 253 runs in the 2012 edition. Shikhar Dhawan (327) and Rohit Sharma (269) are first and third in the leading run-getters list this year so far.

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