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Tendulkar leads Indian
triumph over Bangladesh
COLOMBO: Sachin Tendulkar shone with both bat and ball to help India
to an easy eight-wicket win over Bangladesh in the Asia Cup super
league match here on Wednesday.
The batting record-holder in one-day cricket snapped up 3-35 and
then hit an unbeaten 82 as India cruised past Bangladesh’s modest
177 all out with more than 10 overs to spare at the SSC ground.
Captain Sourav Ganguly, who won the toss and elected to field,
chipped in with 60 in a timely Indian win ahead of the next match
against archrivals Pakistan on Sunday. Sri Lanka are the fourth team
in the super league, where each plays the other once with the top
two advancing to the final on August 1.
Tendulkar struck 10 fours and a six in his 126-ball innings and was
involved in a 154-run partnership for the second wicket with Ganguly,
who hit three fours and three sixes in his 100-ball knock. Opener
Virender Sehwag (16) missed out on the run feast despite starting
with a flurry of boundaries. He was out in Tariq Aziz’s opening
over. Sehwag, who was run out in both matches of the preliminary
league, once again gave away his wicket as he played a rash shot and
was caught by Alok Kapali at point.
Earlier, Tendulkar and Irfan Pathan claimed three wickets each to
bowl out Bangladesh with five deliveries left in the innings. Pathan
dented the top-order with a fine display of seam bowling, while
Tendulkar’s clever spinners accounted for much of the lower order.
Bangladesh were pegged back by a twin strike in Pathan’s second
over, the third of the match. The left-armer produced two superb
in-swingers to bowl captain Habib-ul-Bashar and trap Rajin Saleh
leg-before-wicket. Pathan dismissed Abdur Razzaq later in the
innings with a yorker.
Tendulkar showed his prowess with the ball as he had Khaled Mashud
caught behind with a leg-spin delivery. Resorting to off-spin
against the left-handers, he bowled Mohammad Rafique and Manjurul
Islam Rana.
Opener Mohammad Ashraful was the lone Bangladesh batsman to provide
resistance with 35 off 69 deliveries before being run out by the
agile Yuvraj Singh at square leg.
India brought in Laxman, Ashish Nehra and Harbhajan Singh for
Parthiv Patel, Anil Kumble and Zaheer Khan. Bangladesh played Rana,
Tariq Aziz and Faisal Hossain for Javed Omar, Tapash Baisya and
Mushfiqur Rahman.
Omar, who struck half-centuries in both the preliminary league
matches, was ruled out with a hamstring injury.
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