{"id":31906,"date":"2025-09-25T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31906"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:31:12","slug":"india-storms-into-asia-cup-final-with-victory-over-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/india-storms-into-asia-cup-final-with-victory-over-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"India storms into Asia Cup final with victory over Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"273\"><strong>Kathmandu, September 25:<\/strong> India secured their spot in the ACC Asia Cup final after defeating Bangladesh by 41 runs in the Super Four clash on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"577\">Chasing a target of 169 runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Bangladesh faltered and were bundled out for 127 runs in 19.3 overs. Saif Hassan was the lone standout with a resilient 69 runs, while Parvez Hossain Emon added 21. The rest of the batting lineup failed to reach double figures.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"785\">India\u2019s bowlers delivered a disciplined performance\u2014Kuldeep Yadav claimed three wickets, Jasprit Bumrah and Varun Chakravarthy bagged two each, while Axar Patel and Tilak Varma chipped in with one apiece.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"1059\">Earlier, opting to bat first after losing the toss, India posted 168\/6 in 20 overs. Abhishek Sharma starred with a blistering 75 off just 37 deliveries, striking 6 fours and 5 sixes. Hardik Pandya contributed 38, Shubman Gill scored 29, and Axar Patel added 10 runs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1198\">For Bangladesh, Rasid Hossain picked up two wickets, while Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman, and Mohammad Saifuddin took one each.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1364\">With the win, India topped the Super Four table with 4 points from two matches, while Bangladesh slipped to third with 2 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, September 25: India secured their spot in the ACC Asia Cup final after defeating Bangladesh by 41 runs in the Super Four clash on Wednesday night. Chasing a target of 169 runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Bangladesh faltered and were bundled out for 127 runs in 19.3 overs. Saif Hassan was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31909,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906\/revisions\/31909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}