Asia Cup 2018: Super-4s, Match 1, India vs Bangladesh – Statistical Highlights

Team India began the Super-4s round with a thumping 7-wicket win over Bangladesh thanks to yet another dominating performance with the ball. The Indian pacers claimed three wickets each while Ravindra Jadeja bagged a 4-wicket haul on his returned to the Indian limited-overs XI. Despite both the wrist spinners going wicketless, India bundled out Bangladesh for just 173. Later, they chased down the target with ease as their skipper Rohit Sharma remained unbeaten on 83.

All the major stats and numbers recorded during India’s 7-wicket win against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup 2018:

2 – Rohit Sharma became the 2nd Indian and overall the 5th player to score consecutive fifty-plus scores as captain in the Asia Cup. MS Dhoni scored 76 and 67 against Pakistan and Sri Lanka respectively during the 2008 Super-4s round.

3 – Ravindra Jadeja became the first Indian and only the 3rd player overall to take back to back 4-wicket hauls in the Asia Cup. Jadeja’s last match in this competition was in the 2014 edition against Afghanistan where he took 4/30.

Ajantha Mendis had back to back four-fers on two occasions. He took 4-fers against UAE and Bangladesh in 2008 and ended that edition with a six-fer against India in the final and followed it with a 4-fer against the Indians in 2014. Lasith Malinga became the 2nd bowler to do that when he started this Asia Cup with a 4-wicket haul. The Sri Lankan bagged a 5-wicket haul in the 2014 final against Pakistan.

4/29 – Jadeja’s bowling figures of 4/29 in this game are the best bowling figures for a left-arm spinner in the Asia Cup. Jadeja bettered his own figures of 4/30 that he had registered against Afghanistan in the 2014 Asia Cup.

4 – Shikhar Dhawan became the 7th Indian fielder to claim as many as four catches in an ODI game. The last of the previous six was VVS Laxman in the 2004 Perth ODI against Zimbabwe.

72.1 – Jadeja bowled as many as 72.1 balls in List A cricket without taking a before he dismissed Shakib Al Hasan in this game. His last wicket in the List A format was also Shakib during the 2017 Champions Trophy semis.

108.75 – Rohit Sharma’s batting average against Bangladesh in the ODI format since 2015. He has scored 435 runs in 6 innings in this span against Bangladesh with two 100s and two 50s. Till the end of 2014, Rohit scored only 73 runs in five innings without a fifty-plus score against them.

2010 – The last instance when two Indian pacers took three wickets apiece while opening the bowling in an ODI in Asia was back in 2010 against New Zealand in Dambulla.

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