Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

Shubman Gill
Shubman Gill
101(129) 9x4 - 2x6
Control %93%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 26 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
8 8 9 2 22 1 12 39
Towhid Hridoy
Towhid Hridoy
100(118) 6x4 - 2x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 21 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
9 3 10 11 25 3 9 30

Best performances - Bowlers

Mohammed Shami
Mohammed Shami
O10
M0
R53
W5
Eco5.3
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W
Harshit Rana
Harshit Rana
O7.4
M0
R31
W3
Eco4.04
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: Alagappan Muthu

That's all we have for you on commentary, thank you for your company, from Al, Matt and Vairavan, its goodbye.

Rohit Sharma: "Before you come and play any game, you have to be confident. In the chase, as it goes on, there are different emotions that come through. But you have to be ready. We have been in that situation before. There's a lot of experience in the dressing room to stay composed. KL and Gill at the end were very composed. One game, very hard to make anything out of the track. Not much grass on it, we knew it would be on the slower side, and that is how it played.

As a team, I thought we adapted to the conditions really well, with the bowling and with the bat as well. Very happy for Shami. Long time waiting. We know what he brings for us. The quality he has. Everytime we throw the ball at him he's got something up his sleeve and we need guys like him to step up in big moments.

Gill, we know the class he has. He's been batting brilliantly of late and today what he showed us, it shouldn't surprise anyone. What was good to see was he was there till the end.

I may take him for a dinner tomorrow [he dropped a catch that would've given Axar a hat-trick]. That was an easy catch, I should have taken that catch, the standards I have set standing in the slips but these things happen. Credit to Hridoy and Jaker to stitch that big partnership.

Not sure about the pitch [for the Pakistan game], but it will be pretty similar to today. I'm not the curator to tell you how it will be. There has been a lot of games that have happened here and we'll come out here on the 23rd and see how it looks." Najmul Hossain Shanto: I think the first powerplay, the way we batted, the game cost us at that point. Very hard for the lower order to recover. The way Hridoy and Jaker batted was brilliant. We made a couple of mistakes on the field, a couple of dropped catches, a run out. If we had taken those chances, the result could have been different. On this kind of wicket, with the spinners bowling, the ball spinning, Hridoy and Jaker batted brilliantly. I don't think we were a spin bowler short. Mahmudullah got injured. We didn't bowl badly, our quicks. If we had taken an early wicket, the result could have been different.

Shubman Gill is the Player of the Match. He says it is one of his most satisfying innings. His first century in ICC events. When he and Rohit went out there, just cutting the ball wasn't easy because the ablls outside off stump weren't coming onto the bat. So he tried using his feet against the fast bowlers and go over the circle. Then when the spinners came on, he and Kohli spoke of how it wasn't easy to hit singles on the front foot. So they concentrated on playing back. At one point there was pressure on us and the message came from the dressing room that one batter had to bat through to the end. The first six gave me a lot of confidence, the second one got me closer to a hundred, so both were satisfying.

India won this game in the first 10 overs of each innings - picking up five wickets, with Axar Patel almost taking a hat-trick in his very first over. Then in a chase of 229, they were able to get ahead of the rate which was vital because the Dubai pitch kept getting slower and slower and hitting the ball off the square was harder and harder.

Mohammed Shami picked up five wickets, looking much more like his old self. The pace was up. The seam position was perfect. For someone who almost had to re-learn how to walk after injury, this is a pretty special night.

And then there's Shubman Gill, the newly crowned No. 1 batter in the ICC ODI rankings. He couldn't have played a smoother innings, even though there would have been times when he might have gotten bored with what he had to do. Always holding back, always having to avoid risk, not even daring to manipulate the ball here and there because closing the face too early could've resulted in his wicket. It's a very mature hundred for him.

Bangladesh, meanwhile, could take heart in Towhid Hridoy's century lifting them from 35 for 5, but very few teams win from 35 for 5

Bj: "Everyone talking about pitch being on a slower side. Remember Shami a fast bowler took 5 wickets haul. Shami is back. "

46.3
6
Tanzim Hasan Sakib to Rahul, SIX, into the crowd and India kick off their Champions Trophy with a win. Too short and too straight at his pace and KL Rahul who is preferred ahead of Rishabh Pant as wicketkeeper shows why with a very calm, very composed innings having come in at a slightly tricky time. Ices the chase with a hook for six
46.2
1
Tanzim Hasan Sakib to Shubman Gill, 1 run, whips it over midwicket

Rohit : "Bairstow had asked Gill about number of hundreds he has ? I'm just counting them. What a player "

46.1
1
Tanzim Hasan Sakib to Rahul, 1 run, stands tall and slaps a slower short ball outside off to the sweeper

END OF OVER:
46 | 2 Runs | IND: 223/4 (6 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 4.84, RRR: 1.50)

  • Shubman Gill100 (128b)
  • KL Rahul34 (45b)
  • Taskin Ahmed9-0-36-1
  • Tanzim Hasan Sakib8-0-50-0

Ajit: "Really does say something about our game when a batter in full control gets a 100 at a SR of 80, while chasing a 220-230 total and all most people including the commentators are talking about is how it's been a "good but slow" knock"

45.6
0
Taskin Ahmed to Shubman Gill, no run, knocks it to midwicket
45.5
0
Taskin Ahmed to Shubman Gill, no run, yorker on off stump, keeps it out

Hari: "I would rate both equally as pitch got tougher, under lights, wickets falling on the other end although not a collapse like in Bangladesh innings and also there is always pressure when you are chasing. "

45.4
0
Taskin Ahmed to Shubman Gill, no run, steps out of his crease but yorks himself in the process

India 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st69RG SharmaShubman Gill
2nd43V KohliShubman Gill
3rd21SS IyerShubman Gill
4th11AR PatelShubman Gill
5th87KL RahulShubman Gill

ICC Champions Trophy (ICC KnockOut)

Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
NZ11021.2
IND11020.408
BAN1010-0.408
PAK1010-1.2
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
SA11022.14
AFG1010-2.14
AUS00000
ENG00000