Asia Cup: Kuldeep-Bumrah's deadly bowling, India defeated Bangladesh by 41 runs

Dubai, September 24 (IANS). The Indian cricket team defeated Bangladesh 41 in their second match of the Asia Cup 2025 Super-4. In the match played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, India gave a target for 169 runs to win. Bangladesh was reduced to 127 runs in 19.3 overs. Bangladesh did not have a good start to reach the target of 169 runs, and when the team’s score was 4, Jasprit Bumrah Tanjid Hasan rejected. Pervez Hussain Imon, who came to number three, added 42 runs for the second wicket with the opener Saif Hasan. Parvez was rejected for 21 runs. After this, the wickets fell at regular intervals. The opener Saif Hasan scored 69 runs off 51 balls with 5 sixes and 3 fours amid continuous falizing wickets. His alone battle was not enough for Bangladesh victory. Besides Saif and Parvez, no third batsman could reach in two digits. The entire team was reduced to 127 in 19.3 overs. For India, Jasprit Bumrah bowled well and took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs. Kuldeep Yadav took 3 for 18 runs in 4 overs, Varun Chakraborty took 2 wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. Akshar Patel and Tilak Verma got 1-1 wickets. After losing the toss, the Indian cricket team came out first and scored 168 runs against the loss of 6 wickets. The Indian team got a strong start by adding Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma by adding 77 runs for the first wicket in 6.2 overs. Mid -order batsmen couldn’t use this. The fall of the wickets still affected the velocity and at least 30 runs. Abhishek Sharma scored 75 runs from 37 balls. The turn included 5 sixes and 6 fours. Hardik Pandya scored 38 out of 29 balls and Gill scored 29 of 19 balls. Shivam Dubey 2, Captain Suryakumar Yadav 5, Tilak Verma scored 5 runs. Akshar Patel remained unbeaten after scoring 10 runs. For Bangladesh, Tanjim Hasan Saqib, Mustifuzer Rahman, took Mohammad Saifuddin 1–1 and Rishad Hussain took 2 wickets. -Ians bag shares this story tags