Sabbir helps Bangladesh to set 167 for India

Sports Desk: Bangladesh, thanks to Sabbir Rahman’s 77 runs, set 167-run target for India in the final match of the tri-nation T20I Nidahas Trophy at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo of Sri Lanka on Sunday.

Tigers scored 166 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs.

Sabbir hit a brilliant innings of 77 runs off 50 balls. Which includes 7 fours and 4 sixes to set the challenging score for India.

Mahmudullah earned 21 runs off 16 balls with two fours before was run out.

Allrounder Mehidy Hasan (unbeaten) hit 19 runs from 7 balls with two fours and a six.

Opener Tamim Iqbal bagged 15 runs off 13 balls with a four while another opener Liton Das returned to the pavilion scoring 11 runs from 9 balls with a six.

Wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim scored 9 runs from 12 balls while captain Shakib Al Hasan bagged 7 runs off 7 balls with a four.

Soumya Sarkar bagged just 1 run while pacer Rubel Hossain hit a duck. Another pacer Mustafizur Rahman (unbeaten) played faced three balls, but could not earn any run.

Earlier, India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bowl first.

The match started at 7:30pm (Bangladesh Standard Time) on Sunday.

Bangladesh (Playing XI): Tamim Iqbal, Liton Das, Sabbir Rahman, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Soumya Sarkar, Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan(c), Mehidy Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Nazmul Islam
 

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik(w), Lokesh Rahul, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Yuzvendra Chahal

risingbd/Dhaka/March 18, 2018/A K Azad