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Bangladesh need 315 to keep semi’s hope alive

Bangladesh need 315 runs against India to keep semi-finals hope alive in the World Cup.

A fifer from Bangladesh pace sensation Mustafizur strict India to 314 runs losing 9 wickets in 50 overs in Birmingham on Tuesday.

Mustafiz got his fifth wicket of the day as he dismissed Mohammad Shami in the very last ball of the 50th over at Edgbaston.

He had earlier taken the all-important wickets of Dinesh Kartik (8) in the 48th over, MS Dhoni, (35) in the 50th over, skipper Virat Kohli (26) and Hardik Pandya (0) in the 39th over.

Karthik’s wicket came soon after Rishabh Pant (48) walked back to the pavilion in the 45th over when Mosaddek Hossain took a shaky catch near the long boundary on a delivery by Shakib Al Hasan.

India had gotten off to an impressive start as openers Rohit Sharma (104) and KL Rahul (77) maintained a high run rate from the get-go and formed a 180-run partnership.

India scored 69 in the first 10 overs — their highest score in the opening powerplay in the ongoing World Cup tournament according to ICC’s Cricket World Cup Twitter account.

Bangladesh got their much-needed breakthrough in the 30th over after Soumya Sarkar dismissed Sharma soon after he scored an impressive century. Rahul was dismissed soon after when Mushfiqur Rahim’s took a catch on Rubel Hossain’s ball in the 32nd over.

This was Sharma’s fourth century during the World Cup tournament and was scored off 92 balls. The right-hand batsman made the most of the second chance he received after Tamim Iqbal dropped a catch in the fifth over.