India bowled out for their lowest total against Bangladesh in 2nd ODI in Mirpur

Tashkin Ahmed took 5-wicket haul on debut

India, after a convincing win with their secondary side in the first ODI against Bangladesh, entered the pitch in the second match hopeful of completing a series win. It should be noted that Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim, when he expressed his disappointment with India resting star players, warned that it is the national side anyway and will be determined to beat them. Their side responded very well to their captain’s words.

Young Bangladesh fast bowler Taskin Ahmed, making his ODI debut, wrecked though the Indian batsmen with the company of Masrafe Mortaza. The new ball pair of Mortaza and Al-Amin Hossain was very impressive at the start before rain stopped play. Rahane fell without scoring before the break to Mortaza’s inswinger on the second delivery of the match. Due to consistent rain, the match was reduced to a 41 over game.

When play resumed, Taskin in particular bowled with the extra pace beating the batsmen with his inswingers hitting the pads of numerous occasions. As many as 5 Indian batsmen were dismissed by means of leg before wickets, the most ever for India.

None of the batsmen applied themselves in the middle to counter the new ball and by the 18th over India were 7 down. Skipper Suresh Raina played his usual game in spite of all these dismissals, but faltered in his quest for a second run. Cheteshwar Pujara and Robin Uthappa hung in for some time before Uthappa became impatient to throw it away. Pujara like other fell for the extra pace and failed to read the in-swing.

Taskin went on to claim his five wicket haul in his debut match.

India, suddenly were in deep trouble and faced another threat of humiliation against Bangladesh apart from losing – lowest ODI total. By the time they lost their fifth wicket had already crossed their lowest ODI score of 54, they registered against Sri Lanka in 2000. But faliling against a Bangladesh side might not leave the test players in Rahane and Pujara in a good frame of mind when they leave for England.

Thankfully Umesh Yadav took India’s score to three figure mark, that gave themselves something to bowl at.

India’s lowest ODI totals are listed below:

#	Score	Overs	Opposition	Venue	Year	Losing Margin
1	54	26.3	Sri Lanka	Sharjah	29 Oct 2000	245 Runs
2	63	25.5	Australia	Sydney	8 Jan 1981	9 Wickets
3	78	24.1	Sri Lanka	Kanpur	24 Dec 1986	117 Runs
4	79	34.2	Pakistan	Sialkot	13 Oct 1978	8 Wickets
5	88	29.3	New Zealand	Dambulla	10 Aug 2010	200 Runs
6	91	29.1	South Africa	Durban	22 Dec 2006	157 Runs
7	100	36.3	Australia	Sydney	14 Jan 2000	5 wickets
8	100	28.3	West Indies	Ahmedabad	16 Nov 1993	69 runs (D/L Method)
9	103	26.3	Sri Lanka	Columbo (RPS)	29 Aug 2008	112 Runs (D/L Method)
10	103	33.4	Sri Lanka	Dambulla	22 Aug 2010	8 Wickets
11	105	25.3	Bangladesh	Mirpur	17 June 2014	In progress