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The Asia Cup's Super Four defeat against Bangladesh cost India a golden chance to rule the rankings charts across formats. Before the Asia Cup clash against Bangladesh on Friday, 15 September, India held the No.2 position on the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings with 116 rating points, just slightly trailing top-ranked Australia, who led with 118 points.
Graeme Souness couldn't help but harp back to Rangers' 7-1 Champions League capitulation against Liverpool when watching Scotland fall 3-1 to England.
India's star opener Shubman Gill, who slammed a century in their Asia Cup Super Four match, said that if he had played his innings normally then India would have won the match against Bangladesh. Gill's 121 off 133 balls was exceptional. But it was not enough to carry India past Bangladesh's 265/8. Gill's thunderous knock of 121 runs and Axar Patel's fighting 42 went in vain as Bangladesh fought back to end their Asia Cup 2023 campaign on a high by beating finalists India in their Asia Cup Super Four 2023 clash here at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Friday.
Shubman Gill's thunderous knock of 121 runs went in vain as India were narrowly beaten by Bangladesh in their final game of the Asia Cup Super 4 stage. With a place in the final already in the bag, India made five changes, resting some key players in the process. Shakib Al Hasan top-scored as Bangladesh posted a total of 265/8 in 50 overs. In reply, India fell short by six runs. While analysing the match, former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar said the defeat is a "wake up call for India", saying that you can't take any team lightly.
Rohit Sharma defended the decision to make massive changes to the playing XI after India were beaten by Bangladesh in their final Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 match on Friday. India were already in the final of the tournament and for the inconsequential match, they decided to rest veteran players like Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Siraj. On the other hand, youngster Tilak Varma was handed his ODI debut while Mohammed Shami, Prasidh Krishna, Shardul Thakur and Suryakumar Yadav made their way to the side. In the aftermath of the match, Rohit said that the idea was to give some game time for the cricketers and that can be important ahead of the ICC World Cup 2023.
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Former Indian cricket team opener Gautam Gambhir was extremely critical of Babar Azam's captaincy after Pakistan failed to reach the Asia Cup 2023 final on Thursday. The Babar-led side was defeated by Sri Lanka in a last-ball thriller with Charith Asalanka scoring six runs in the final two balls of the encounter. Gambhir was not happy with Babar's field placements as well as his use of the Pakistan bowlers during the game and he said that they could have saved way more runs in the field with a few tweaks.
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