India made heavy weather of a modest 223-run target as Bangladesh fought for every run before the title holders achieved victory off the last ball watched by a capacity 25,000 holiday crowd at Dubai stadium.
Das held the innings together during his 117-ball 121 which featured a dozen boundaries and two sixes but Bangladesh, who were put into bat, were all out in 48.3 overs despite a solid opening stand of 120 with Mehidy Hasan.
With their settled opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan, India were expected to run away with victory, like they did in the previous matches but Bangladesh were not ready to give up without a fight.
Dhawan was dismissed for 15 and Sharma for a punishing 55-ball 48, studded with three sixes and as many boundaries.
Dinesh Karthik (37) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (36) added 54 for the fourth wicket but once both were dismissed Bangladesh looked like pulling off an upset.
Ravindra Jadeja (23) and Bhuvenshwar Kumar (21) brought the target within India’s reach through a 45-run stand for the sixth wicket but Bangladesh removed them both with eight runs still needed.
India then required six off the last over and one off the final delivery which came as a leg-bye. Kedar Jadhav finished with 23 not out.
"We played some good cricket throughout the tournament and this is the reward for hard work," said Sharma, standing in for regular skipper Virat Kohli, rested for the event.
"We’ve put in a complete performance. With a team so good, the captain always looks good. But it’s not easy without the support of the ten other players, so credit to them."
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortza praised his team’s fight.
"We played with our hearts," said Mortaza. "We played till the last ball, but we made mistakes with both bat and ball. Liton played a brilliant knock but we were 20-30 runs short."
India won the Asia Cup -- under a Twenty20 format -- in Bangladesh in 2016.
Friday’s result meant Bangladesh lost in a second Asia Cup final after coming up just short by two runs in the 2012 final against Pakistan at home.
Earlier Bangladesh lost all their wickets for 102 runs in a major middle order collapse after a brisk opening stand of 120.
Hasan was promoted to open the innings and he and Das attacked India’s pace-cum spin attack.
But once Hasan was caught off Jadhav in the 21st over the innings collapsed with Bangladesh losing four more wickets by the time the score reached 151.
Hasan hit three boundaries in his 59-ball 32 while Soumya Sarkar made a 45-ball 33 with a boundary and a six.
Former captain Mushfiqur Rahim, who scored 144 and 99 earlier in the tournament, also hold out off Jadhav who finished with 2-41. Rahim made just five.
Bangladesh’s cause was not helped by three run-outs while left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav returned with the best figures of 3-45.
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INDIA 223/7 in 50 Overs (BANGLADESH 222)
End of over 50: India 223/7
End of over 47: India 210/5
Rubel Hossain to Jadeja, OUT
End of over 47: India 210/5
End of over 46: India 205/5
Rubel Hossain to Kumar, SIX runs
End of over 45: India 197/5
End of over 44: India 191/5
End of over 43: India 187/5
End of over 42: India 186/5
End of over 41: India 178/5
End of over 40: India 172/5
End of over 39: India 169/5
End of over 37: India 162/5
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhoni, OUT
End of over 36: India 160/4
End of over 35: India 154/4
End of over 34: India 152/4
End of over 33: India 147/4
Mahmudullah to Jadhav, SIX runs
End of over 32: India 139/4
End of over 31: India 139/4
KD Karthik lbw b Mahmudullah 37
Mahmudullah to Karthik, OUT
End of over 30: India 135/3
End of over 29: India 134/3
Mahmudullah to Karthik, FOUR
End of over 28: India 129/3
End of over 27: India 125/3
End of over 26: India 120/3
Nazmul Islam to Dhoni, FOUR
End of over 25: India 112/3
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Dhoni, FOUR
End of over 24: India 105/3
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhoni, FOUR
End of over 23: India 99/3
Only one run scored
Nazmul Islam to Dhoni, 1 run
End of over 22: India 98/3
Only 1 run in this over
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhoni, 1 run
End of over 21: India 97/3
Nazmul Islam to Karthik, SIX runs
End of over 20: India 90/3
End of over 19: India 88/3
Rubel Hossain to Dhoni, 1 wide
Rubel Hossain to Dhoni, 1 run
Rubel Hossain to Dhoni, 1 run
End of over 18: India 85/3
Mashrafe Mortaza to Dhoni, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, 1 run
End of over 17: India 83/3
Rubel Hossain to Dhoni, no run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, OUT, straight to deep square
End of over 16: India 82/2
End of over 15: India 79/2
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, SIX
End of over 14: India 73/2
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, 2 runs
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, 1 run
End of over 13: India 67/2
Rubel Hossain to Karthik, 1 run
Rubel Hossain to Karthik, no run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, 1 run
Rubel Hossain to Karthik, 1 run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, 1 run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, no run
End of over 12: India 63/2
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, 2 runs
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, no run
End of over 11: India 58/2
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, 1 run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, no run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, no run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, no run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, no run
Rubel Hossain to Sharma, no run
End of over 10: India 57/2
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, FOUR
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, no run
End of over 9: India 52/2
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, 1 run
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, no run
Nazmul Islam to Karthik, 1 run
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, 1 run
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, no run
Nazmul Islam to Karthik, 1 run
End of over 8: India 48/2
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, no run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Karthik, 1 wide
Mashrafe Mortaza to Ryaudu, OUT, edged and taken,
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, 1 run
Mashrafe Mortaza to Sharma, no run
End of over 7: India 45/1
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, 1 run
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, no run
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, no run
Nazmul Islam to Rayudu, 1 run
Nazmul Islam to Rayudu, no run
Nazmul Islam to Rayudu, no run
End of over 6: India 43/1
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, SIX
Mustafizur Rahman to Ryaudu, 1 run
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, 1 run
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, no run
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, no run
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, no run
End of over 5: India 35/1
Nazmul Islam to Rayudu, no run
Nazmul Islam to Rayudu, no run
Nazmul Islam to Dhawan, OUT
Nazmul Islam to Dhawan, FOUR
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, 1 run
Nazmul Islam to Sharma, SIX
End of over 4: India 24/0
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, no run
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, no run
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, FOUR runs
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, no run
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, no run, Big appeal for lbw again but not given
Mustafizur Rahman to Sharma, 2 runs
End of over 3: India 17/0
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Dhawan, no run
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, no run
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, no run
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, FOUR
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, no run
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, no run
End of over 2: India 12/0
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, 1 run
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, no run
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, huge appeal for LBW, umpire is not interested.
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, 2 runs
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, no run
Mustafizur Rahman to Dhawan, no run
End of over 1: India 10/0
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, no run
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, no run
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, FOUR
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Dhawan, 1 run
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Dhawan, FOUR runs
Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Sharma, 1 run
Opener Liton Das struck a magnificent century as Bangladesh set India 223 to win in the final of Asia Cup at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in UAE on Friday.
Put in to bat first, Bangladesh were all out for 222 in 48.3 overs despite Das's ton.
Bangladesh must be disappointed with the total given the start they had got due to a record opening stand of Das and Raza Mehidy.
Bangladesh 222/10
Bumrah to Rubel Hossain, OUT
Bumrah to Rubel Hossain, no run
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run, RUN OUT
End of over 48: Bangladesh 221/8
Kumar to Mustafizur Rahman, no run
Kumar to Mustafizur Rahman, 2 runs
Kumar to Mustafizur Rahman, no run
Kumar to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
Kumar to Soumya Sarkar, 1 wide
Kumar to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Kumar to Soumya Sarkar, FOUR runs
End of over 47: Bangladesh 213/7
Bumrah to Mustafizur Rahman, no run
Bumrah to Mustafizur Rahman, no run
Bumrah to Nazmul Islam, RUN OUT
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Bumrah to Nazmul Islam, 1 run
Bumrah to Nazmul Islam, 1 wide
End of over 46: Bangladesh 210/7
Kumar to Soumya Sarkar, 2 runs
Kumar to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Kumar to Nazmul Islam, 1 run
Kumar to Nazmul Islam, 2 runs
Kumar to Nazmul Islam, 2 runs
Kumar to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
End of over 45: Bangladesh 202/7
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
Bumrah to Nazmul Islam, 1 leg bye
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
End of over 44: Bangladesh 199/7
Only three scores taken in this over.
End of over 43: Bangladesh 196/7
Kuldeep Yadav to Nazmul Islam, no run
Kuldeep Yadav to Mashrafe Mortaza, OUT
Kuldeep Yadav to Mashrafe Mortaza, SIX runs
End of over 42: Bangladesh 190/6
Only 2 runs in this over
Chahal to Mashrafe Mortaza, 1 run
Chahal to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
End of over 41: Bangladesh 188/6
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, no run, appeal for stump, looks safe, it's very close. The line, they say, belongs to the umpire. OUT, it's given out. Big big loss for Bangladesh. Liton Das is stumped on 121.
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, no run
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, 2 runs
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, FOUR
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, 2 runs
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, 2 runs
End of over 40: Bangladesh 178/5
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, SIX runs
End of over 39: Bangladesh 168/5
Bumrah to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 38: Bangladesh 166/5
Another good over for India
Jadhav to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 37: Bangladesh 165/5
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, 2 runs
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Bumrah to Soumya Sarkar, no run
End of over 36: Bangladesh 163/5
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, 2 runs
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, no run
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, no run
End of over 35: Bangladesh 160/5
Kuldeep Yadav to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, 1 run
Kuldeep Yadav to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
End of over 34: Bangladesh 157/5
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
Jadhav to Liton Das, 1 run
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, 1 run
Jadhav to Soumya Sarkar, 1 wide
Jadhav to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 33: Bangladesh 152/5
Another good over for India
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, 1 run
Kuldeep Yadav to Mahmudullah, OUT, Bumrah takes a stunner!
Kuldeep Yadav to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 32: Bangladesh 150/4
Good over for India, only 1 run scored
Kumar to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 31: Bangladesh 149/4
Jadhav to Mahmudullah, 2 runs
Jadhav to Mahmudullah, no run
Jadhav to Mahmudullah, no run
Jadhav to Mahmudullah, no run
Jadhav to Mahmudullah, no run
Jadhav to Mahmudullah, no run
End of over 30: Bangladesh 147/4
Only 2 runs in this over
Jadeja to Mahmudullah, 1 run
Jadeja to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 29: Bangladesh 145/4
Jadhav to Liton Das, 1 run
Jadhav to Liton Das, FOUR, amazing century in the Asia Cup final
End of over 28: Bangladesh 139/4
Chahal to Liton Das, OUT, Mithun is run out
Chahal to Mohammad Mithun, 1 run
End of over 27: Bangladesh 138/3
Mohammad Mithun is at 5
Jadhav to Mushfiqur Rahim, OUT, finds deep midwicket! Oh that's a poor shot from Mushfiqur.
Jadhav to Liton Das, 1 run
Jadhav to Mushfiqur Rahim, 1 run
End of over 26: Bangladesh 135/2
Chahal to Liton Das, 2 runs
End of over 25: Bangladesh 133/2
Jadhav to Mushfiqur Rahim, FOUR
Jadhav to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 24: Bangladesh 128/2
A successful over for India. A wicket maiden.
Chahal to Imrul Kayes, no run, LBW, It's GIVEN, review taken. OUT
End of over 23: Bangladesh 128/1
Jadhav to Liton Das, 2 runs
Jadhav to Liton Das, no run
Jadhav to Liton Das, no run
Jadhav to Imrul Kayes, 1 run
Jadhav to Imrul Kayes, no run
Jadhav to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 22: Bangladesh 124/1
Chahal to Kayes, wide, no run
Chahal to Kayes, wide, 1 run
Chahal to Liton Das, 1 run
Chahal to Imrul Kayes, 1 run
Chahal to Imrul Kayes, no run
Chahal to Liton Das, 1 run
Chahal to Liton Das, no run
End of over 21: Bangladesh 120/1
Imrul Kayes walks in to bat at 3
Jadhav to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, OUT
Jadhav to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 2 runs
End of over 20: Bangladesh 116/0
Jadeja to Liton, FOUR
Jadeja to Liton, FOUR, Indian under pressure here
End of over 19: Bangladesh 108/0
End of over 18: Bangladesh 102/0
Jadeja to Liton Das, FOUR
End of over 17: Bangladesh 97/0
Kuldeep Yadav to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 1 run, direct hit!
End of over 16: Bangladesh 93/0
Jadeja to Liton Das, 2 runs
Jadeja to Liton Das, FOUR
End of over 15: Bangladesh 86/0
Kuldeep Yadav to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 2 runs
Kuldeep Yadav to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, FOUR
End of over 14: Bangladesh 79/0
End of over 13: Bangladesh 78/0
End of over 12: Bangladesh 74/0
Jadeja to Das, 4, welcomes him with a slap! Full just outside off, and he carves a square drive through the infield! Classy way to get to your maiden ODI fifty
End of over 11: Bangladesh 66/0
End of over 10: Bangladesh 65/0
Kumar to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, no run, lbw appeal is turned down
End of over 9: Bangladesh 64/0
Bumrah to Liton Das, FOUR
End of over 8: Bangladesh 58/0
Chahal to Liton Das, SIX
Chahal to Liton Das, SIX
End of over 7: Bangladesh 42/0
Bumrah to Liton Das, FOUR
End of over 6: Bangladesh 36/0
End of over 5: Bangladesh 33/0
Kumar to Liton Das, FOUR
Kumar to Liton Das, FOUR
End of over 4: Bangladesh 25/0
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, FOUR runs
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 1 wide
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, no run
Bumrah to Liton Das, 1 run
Bumrah to Liton Das, 2 runs
Bumrah to Liton Das, FOUR runs
End of over 3: Bangladesh 13/0
Kumar to Liton Das, 1 run
Kumar to Liton Das, 2 runs
Kumar to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 1 leg bye
Kumar to Liton Das, 1 run,
Kumar to Liton Das, no run
Kumar to Liton Das, 1 run
End of over 2: Bangladesh 8/0
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, no run
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, no run
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, FOUR
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, no run
Bumrah to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, no run
Bumrah to Liton, 1 run
End of over 1: Bangladesh 3/0
Kumar to Mehidy, no run
Kumar to Mehidy, no run
Kumar to Liton, 1 run
Kumar to Liton, no run
Kumar to Mehidy, 1 run, Mehidy off the mark
Kumar to Mehidy, 1 run
Liton Das, Mehidy open the batting for Bangladesh and Bhunneshwar Kumar with the ball.
The match is set to get under way at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in UAE.
DUBAI: Defending champions India won toss and decided to field first against Bangladesh in Asia Cup 2018 final here on Friday.
Squads
Bangladesh: Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mehidy Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza (capt.), Nazmul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman
India: Rohit Sharma (capt.), Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah
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The Indians have been unbeaten in the tournament so far and shouldn’t face much problems in shrugging aside a Bangladesh team which would be without its star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan.But Shikhar Dhawan, one of the stars of India’s Asia Cup campaign, warned on Thursday that his team shouldn’t take Bangladesh for granted.
“We cannot take them lightly because Pakistan is a bigger name but Bangladesh got the better of them,” he told reporters ahead f=of the final. “There is a big difference between a team on paper and players playing on the ground. So, the team which plays better on the field, they are regarded as the bigger team.”
For the second consecutive Asia Cup, India and Bangladesh will meet in the final – a contest between a team that hasn’t lost a match yet and another that’s stuttered before finding its feet.
Bangladesh have several issues to deal with including injuries to key players.
Tamim Iqbal sustained a fracture in his left wrist in the team’s first game against Sri Lanka and was ruled out of the rest of the games, and Shakib Al Hasan aggravated an injury to his left little finger hours before the knockout clash against Pakistan and was ruled out of that game as well as the final.
That Bangladesh are still in the final despite two of their most experienced men out is, in most parts, down to the third major wheel of Bangladesh batting machine – Mushfiqur Rahim.The wicket-keeper batsman has 297 runs at 74.35 with one century, and his 99 against Pakistan on Wednesday acted as a catalyst in Bangladesh’s victory after they were 12/3 in the fifth over.
On the bowling front, Mustafizur Rahman is the second-highest wicket-taker with eight wickets at 18.37 and has been their main weapon with the new ball as well as at the death. He has Rubel Hossain, captain Mortaza and spinner Mehidy Hasan for company.While the Indians look to set to defend the Asia Cup, Mushfiqur believes his team has the guts to win its first crown.
“India, as we all know, are in great form,” said Mushfiqur. “They have been playing outstanding cricket in this competition. But if we can put up a good score then we can put some pressure on them. So, if we can get a good start in this game, we can pull it off. That’s one thing we want to achieve in this tournament.
“Of course, it is possible to win the Asia Cup. People live in dream and hope. And this was our target before the Asia Cup, that we at least make the final. Then in the championship match if we play our best cricket, then what will happen will happen. Since we have worked this hard and come this far, we of course have a chance.”
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