Nidahas Trophy: Dhawan powers India to six-wicket win

India gained the upper hand after pacemen Jaydev Unadkat and Vijay Shankar shared five wickets between them to restrict Bangladesh to 139-8.

Published : Mar 09, 2018 00:06 IST , Colombo

 India opener Shikhar Dhawan (left) raises his bat after scoring a half-century against Bangladesh at the R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo on Thursday.
India opener Shikhar Dhawan (left) raises his bat after scoring a half-century against Bangladesh at the R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo on Thursday.
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India opener Shikhar Dhawan (left) raises his bat after scoring a half-century against Bangladesh at the R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo on Thursday.

 

Opener Shikhar Dhawan hit his second successive T20 half-century to help India thrash Bangladesh by six wickets and register its first win in the tri-series on Thursday.

Chasing 140 for victory, India rode on Dhawan's 43-ball 55 to achieve the target with eight balls to spare at the R Premadasa Stadium.

India won the toss and opted to bowl, it gained the upper hand after pacemen Jaydev Unadkat and Vijay Shankar shared five wickets between them to restrict Bangladesh to 139-8.

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"I think it was a great performance, something that was expected from us. Right from the start to the end, it was clinical and a complete team effort," India skipper Rohit Sharma said after the win.

"Bowlers executed plans very well. We kept it simple and got the basics right, which was missing in the first game."

Dhawan, whose 90 went in vain in India's opening loss against host Sri Lanka on Tuesday, ensured his side cruised home, despite slumping at 40-2 initially.

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Sharma faltered in his second successive outing after chopping a delivery onto his stumps from left-arm paceman Mustafizur Rahman. He made 17.

Dhawan hit five fours and two sixes en route to his sixth T20 fifty, and put on a crucial 68-run third-wicket stand with Suresh Raina, who made 28.

Dhawan finally fell to Taskin Ahmed's right-arm medium pace in the 17th over but Manish Pandey, 27 not out, carried the team home.

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Earlier Bangladesh's batting faltered with only Liton Das, who top-scored with 34 and Sabbir Rahman, who hit 30 off 26 balls, giving some respectability to the total.

Unadkat claimed three wickets with his left-arm pace while Shankar, who found his first international wicket in Mushfiqur Rahim, returned with figures of 2-32.

"We didn't bat well. We should have scored 30 more runs. We need to find out how to get runs on these kind of wickets," said Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah.

"One win will boost us and will reflect in our game. Hopefully we'll get it."

Bangladesh will next take on Sri Lanka in the third match of the tournament, which is timed to commemorate the host island's 70 years of independence, on Saturday.

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