Champions Trophy updates: Shami fifer, Gill ton hand India 6-wicket win over Bangladesh
Shubman Gill hit his 8th ODI century while Mohammed Shami took 5/53 in Dubai
Hello and welcome to The Federal’s live coverage of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match between India and Bangladesh.
India open their Champions Trophy campaign today (February 20) against their neighbours. India, the pre-tournament favourites, will play all their matches in Dubai.
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Mohammed Shami took five wickets while Towhid Hridoy hit a century. Bangladesh were bowled out for 228 in 49.4 overs. Shami also completed 200 ODI wickets, and also became the leading wicket-taker for India in ICC ODI events with 60 scalps in 19 matches, going past Zaheer Khan's 59 in 32 games.
In reply, Shubman Gill (101 not out) hit a fine century as India won in 46.3 overs for the loss of four wickets (231/4). KL Rahul finished the game with a six.
The Champions Trophy began in Karachi yesterday with New Zealand defeating hosts Pakistan by 60 runs.
Also read: Full list of commentators in all 9 languages for Champions Trophy
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and New Zealand are in Group A. Group B consists of Australia, South Africa, England, and Afghanistan. The top two from each group qualify for the semi-finals.
Live Updates
- 20 Feb 2025 2:10 PM IST
Playing XIs
India: 1. Rohit Sharma (captain), 2. Shubman Gill, 3. Virat Kohli, 4. Shreyas Iyer, 5. KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), 6. Hardik Pandya, 7. Ravindra Jadeja, 8. Axar Patel, 9. Kuldeep Yadav, 10. Harshit Rana, 11. Mohammed Shami.
Bangladesh: 1. Tanzid Hasan, 2. Soumya Sarkar, 3. Najmul Hossain Shanto (captain), 4. Towhid Hridoy, 5. Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper), 6. Jaker Ali, 7. Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8. Rishad Hossain, 9. Taskin Ahmed, 10. Tanzim Hasan, 11. Mustafizur Rahman.
- 20 Feb 2025 2:09 PM IST
What captains said at the toss
Rohit Sharma: I would have fielded first. We have played a few years back here so we felt ball comes on better under lights. All looking good. Everyone is fit and fine to go. Let's hope we start well. There is no looking back, every game becomes very important in this tournament. Only Varun misses out from the last ODI we played, Jadeja comes back and Arshdeep misses and Shami comes back.
Najmul Hossain Shanto: We would like to bat first. Looks like a good wicket so we want to put runs on the board. We played good cricket today and the boys are confident. Three seamers, two spinners for us.
