Afghanistan vs India, 9th Match at Dhaka, , Mar 05 2014 - Ball by Ball Commentary

One final league game tomorrow, between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka before the big final between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Join us tomorrow afternoon. Bye for now.

Ravindra Jadeja, the Man of the Match. Jadeja: "Wicket was slow, I was trying to bowl slow, so that I could get some turn. You know that wicket is always going to be slow in Bangladesh. Before the game started, Duncan [Fletcher] told us this also counts an an ODI, so you guys be serious, we were focussed on the game."

Virat Kohli: "Complete performance from the team. Hard to motivate yourselves when you have been travelling and are out of contention for the final. Being more relaxed worked for us, we were quite tense in the earlier games. Idea was to give guys time in the middle. Someone like Ajinkya who has scored on and off, it is good to give them some confidence, even Dinesh Karthik was sent up the order. We have to be patient with them and the results will follow. We started off quite well, we committed crucial mistakes against Pakistan and SL and we lost close games. Amit Mishra coming and bowling well against Pakistan, that was good to see. Am happy the way the team showed their character."

Mohammad Nabi: "Great tournament for us, we have proved we are a good team in Asia after the Full Members. Win over Bangladesh is good sign for us. Ashwin and Jadeja bowled brilliantly, we started well in first ten overs. Big celebration in Afghanistan (after win over Bangladesh). If there are more matches against Full Members, it is good experience for Afghanistan."

So India end with comfortable wins over Afghanistan and Bangladesh, but they came up just short against the bigger sides, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. But who would have thought Afghanistan would end the tournament with a victory? Continue to impress nearly every time they play

32.2

Samiullah Shinwari to Rohit Sharma, FOUR runs

that does it, Rohit eases into a cover drive and ends India's Asia Cup campaign with a bonus point victory

32.1

Samiullah Shinwari to Rohit Sharma, 2 runs

goes back and works it in the air through midwicket

end of over 321 run

IND: 154/2CRR: 4.81 • RRR: 0.33

Dinesh Karthik21 (27b 3x4)

Rohit Sharma12 (22b)

Shapoor Zadran 6-0-25-0

Samiullah Shinwari 4-0-26-0

31.6

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Shapoor to Karthik, no run

comes out and has a crack at it on the full, but does not manage much timing, it goes straight to mid off

31.5

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Shapoor to Karthik, no run

presses forward and blocks solidly to the off side

Nitin: "Good stuff from Kohli. Giving chances to others, even though there's easy runs (relatively) on offer."

31.4

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Shapoor to Karthik, no run

turns a pitched up ball to midwicket

31.3

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Shapoor to Karthik, no run

almost played on, defends this back of a length ball, it drops into the crease, and bounces over the stumps

31.2

Shapoor to Rohit Sharma, 1 run

uses the angle into him to work it square on the leg side

31.1

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Shapoor to Rohit Sharma, no run

pushed off the front foot to point

end of over 317 runs

IND: 153/2CRR: 4.93 • RRR: 0.36

Dinesh Karthik21 (23b 3x4)

Rohit Sharma11 (20b)

Samiullah Shinwari 4-0-26-0

Shapoor Zadran 5-0-24-0

30.6

Samiullah Shinwari to Karthik, FOUR runs

DK's keeping Afghanistan interested, he pulls this short ball, shouts of 'catch it' as it loops towards mid on, he jumps but it clears him

30.5

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Samiullah Shinwari to Karthik, no run

30.4

Samiullah Shinwari to Rohit Sharma, 1 run

eased down the ground to long off

30.3

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Samiullah Shinwari to Rohit Sharma, no run

left alone outside off

30.2

Samiullah Shinwari to Karthik, 1 run

reaches out to one spinning away wide outside off, and edges it through the keeper's gloves to short third man

30.1

Samiullah Shinwari to Rohit Sharma, 1 run

pushed to long off for a single

batting Powerplay

end of over 303 runs

IND: 146/2CRR: 4.86 • RRR: 0.70

Dinesh Karthik16 (20b 2x4)

Rohit Sharma9 (17b)

Shapoor Zadran 5-0-24-0

Mohammad Nabi 10-0-30-1

At the end of the over, Shapoor smiles and pats DK on the back

29.6

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Shapoor to Karthik, no run

punched hard but straight to cover

29.5

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Shapoor to Karthik, no run

Afghanistan are convinced they have DK caught behind, umpire Bowden shakes his head, loud sound as the ball rears up past DK's bottom hand, could only have been an edge, Shahzad threw it up immediately, bowler implored and implored, but Bowden wasn't budging

29.4

Shapoor to Rohit Sharma, 1 run

eases forward and picks up a single to third man with an open bat face

29.3

Shapoor to Karthik, 1 run

drives a pitched up ball wide of mid off for one more

29.2

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Shapoor to Karthik, no run

hops and defends a shortish ball, cannot get the single as point runs in

29.1

Shapoor to Rohit Sharma, 1 run