IND vs BAN, Champions Trophy: The Indian cricket team’s excellent performance in the ODI format continues. On Thursday, Team India defeated Bangladesh by 6 wickets in their first match of the Champions Trophy 2025. Mohammed Shami and Shubman Gill played an important role in India’s victory.
Champions Trophy: Right-arm fast bowler Shami opened the claw. At the same time, Gill managed to score the eighth century of his ODI career. Thanks to Gill’s unbeaten century, Team India won the match with 21 balls to spare. Even though the Indian team registered an easy win in this match, but during this time it also made some mistakes.
Champions Trophy: In this article, we will talk about those 2 mistakes and a masterstroke, which was seen from Team India in the match against Bangladesh.
Champions Trophy: Getting Axar Patel To Bowl First Instead Of Ravindra Jadeja In The Powerplay (Masterstroke)
Champions Trophy: In this match, Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat first. However, his decision did not prove to be right. In the first 7 overs, Mohammed Shami and Harshit Rana took three wickets of Bangladesh. After this, Rohit Sharma handed the ball to Akshar Patel in the ninth over. Rohit’s decision proved right for the team. Akshar took two wickets in two consecutive balls in his very first over. Left-arm spinner Akshar was close to taking a hat-trick, but he could not complete it due to Rohit.
First mistake: Harshit Rana Was Not Used Properly In The Middle Overs
In this match, Harshit Rana was selected as the second fast bowler in place of Arshdeep Singh. In this way, the team management once again maintained its trust in this young fast bowler of KKR, as he had performed well in the middle overs in the ODI series against England.
Despite this, Indian captain Rohit Sharma gave Harshit Rana only two overs to bowl in the middle overs. When he was not successful in taking wickets, Rohit removed him. If Harshit had been given a few more overs, he could have taken more wickets instead of 3.
Second Mistake: Wrong Shot Selection By Key Indian Batsmen On A Difficult Pitch
Even though Team India managed to win this match by 6 wickets, this victory was not easy. If Bangladesh had been able to dismiss Shubman Gill, the match could have gone in their favour. Some batsmen of Team India played a role in making this target difficult.
AXAR PATEL – WHAT A BOWLER. ЁЯлб
— Tanuj Singh (@ImTanujSingh) February 20, 2025
– Axar picked 2 wickets in 2 balls and he missed his Hattrick & immediately Rohit Sharma apologies to him.pic.twitter.com/ZpaKlBFD9j
Key players like Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel lost their wickets while playing big shots. KL Rahul also narrowly escaped being caught out near the boundary. If more spinners were included in the Bangladesh playing 11, they could have created problems for India.
