India vs Bangladesh: In the World Cup 2023, Team India will play its next match against Bangladesh at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. Through this match, Team India would like to win the tournament. But do you know that Bangladesh has caused a big upset by defeating India on a stage like the World Cup. In fact, in the 2007 ODI World Cup, Bangladesh had given a crushing defeat to India by all-out on a low total in the first innings.
Batting first, the Indian team captained by Rahul Dravid was all out for just 191 runs in 49.3 overs. Opener Sourav Ganguly played the biggest innings of 66 runs for the team. Apart from this, Yuvraj Singh had scored 47 runs in the middle order. A total of six batsmen could not even cross double figures, out of which three batsmen including Mahendra Singh Dhoni returned to the pavilion without opening their account.
During this period, Mashrafe Mortaza took maximum 4 wickets for Bangladesh. Apart from this, Abdur Razzaq and Mohammad Rafiq had taken 3-3 wickets in their name. During this, Martaza had spent 38 runs in 9.3 overs, Razzaq had spent 38 runs in 10 overs and Rafiq had spent 35 runs in 10 overs.
Chasing the target of 192 runs, Bangladesh won by 5 wickets in 48.3 overs. For the team, Mushfiqur Rahim scored 56*, Shakib Al Hasan scored 53 and opener Tamim Iqbal scored 51 runs. During this, Munaf Patel and Virender Sehwag took 2-2 wickets from India’s side. Whereas Zaheer Khan got 1 success.
World Cup was very bad for India
Let us tell you that in the 2007 World Cup, Team India was out of the group stage after losing 2 out of 3 matches. Apart from Bangladesh, India also had to face defeat by Sri Lanka by 69 runs. Team India, captained by Rahul Dravid, could only defeat Bermuda by 257 runs.
Two upsets have occurred in the 2023 World Cup
It is noteworthy that so far two major upsets have been seen in the ODI World Cup 2023 being played in India. The first upset was achieved by Afghanistan by defeating defending champion England by 69 runs in the 13th match of the tournament last Sunday (15 October). After this, on Tuesday (17 October), Netherlands achieved the second upset by defeating South Africa in the 15th match of the tournament.
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