IND VS BAN - 1st T20I, Bangladesh tour of India, 2024

Arshdeep Singh | Player of the Match: There's breeze from the end I was playing. I didn't get the wicket the way I wanted but the ball is coming good from the hand. It's minor changes in the wrist, I keep learining and exploring things. The experience is there, the more you play the better you get. Everyone played well, Mayank was very good. I guess in this format is the best thing in this format is how well you can adapt to the situation, to the wicket and the ground dimensions as well. My motive is how well I can adapat and how quickly I can adapt.

Suryakumar Yadav: We just tried to back our skills and what we decided in our team meetings, it worked out. The way the guys showed character playing on a new ground and the way we batted, it was great. It's a good headache to have when you are on the field on whom to bowl. Every time you have an extra option, it's a good thing. There's always areas to improve on.

Najmul Hossain Shanto: Yes, I think we didn't start well. In T20, first six overs is important but we didn't do well. The plan was to play positive cricket but we had to manage some overs how we want to approach. Looks like we didn't have much plan but we need to do proper plan in the next match. We need to focus on rotating the strike, T20 is not only about hitting. If we keep wickets in hand, we can get a good score. We didn't score many runs. Rishad bowled well and Fizz was also good but we didn't have enough runs.

Varun Chakravarthy: After three long years, it was definitely emotional for me. Feels nice to be back in the Blues. It feels like a rebirth, I just want to stick to the process, that's what I have been following in the IPL as well, I don't want to go beyond what's there and I just want to stay in the present, that's why I don't want to think too much or express too much. After IPL I played few tournaments and one of those was TNPL, it's a very good tournament and high standard as well. That's a place where I work a lot, with Ash (Ashwin) bhai also, we won the championship as well, That gave me the confidence here. It was a good preparation for me for this series. (A dropped catch off his bowling in his 1st over) It could have gone my way, but that's how cricket is, I can't complain, thankful to God. There have been many (challenges), once you are not in the Indian side, people tend to write you off very easily. You need to stay in the highest level, again and again you need to keep knocking the door, thankfully this time it happened, hopefully I can keep continuing my good work.

Most successive T20I wins for India (including Super Over wins)
12 wins bw Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
12 wins bw Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
9 wins bw Jan - Dec 2020
8 wins bw Jul 2024 - present *

India winning with most balls to spare in T20Is (Target: 100+)
49 vs Ban Gwalior 2024 (Tar: 128)
41 vs Zim Harare 2016 (Tar: 100)
31 vs Afg Gros Islet 2010 (Tar: 116)
30 vs Zim Harare 2010 (Tar: 112)

21:55 Local Time, 16:25 GMT, 21:55 IST: India have sailed through to a convincing victory with consummate ease. The T20 World Champions might be missing their stalwarts but there's no dearth of talent in this young Indian side. Only Shanto and Mehidy Hasan showed some resistance for Bangladesh but apart from that, there was nothing much to write about their batting performance. Agreed that the pitch was on the slower side but a lot of the Bangladeshi batters were dismissed courtesy poor shots. 127 was not going to be enough against a deep Indian batting lineup. Abhishek started off in his typical slambang fashion but a misjudgement resulted in his run-out. Suryakumar attacked from the word-go and Samson played some beautiful strokes from the other end. The Indian skipper departed after playing a breezy cameo but the game was almost done by then. 71 runs came off the powerplay which completely pushed Bangladesh on the back foot. Samson also fell against the run of play. Pandya kept the runs flowing with some audacious strokes and alongwith Nitish Reddy, took India to a thumping win with 49 balls to spare. Stick around for the presentations...

Taskin Ahmed to Hardik Pandya, SIX, that's the game! As clinical a victory for India as it can get! A short delivery that sits up nicely for Hardik Pandya. He pulls it with authority over cow corner to finish the game. Customary handshakes all around as India go 1-0 up in the series

Taskin Ahmed to Hardik Pandya, FOUR, the bat flies away but still he manages to get a boundary! A full-toss on off, Hardik Pandya throws his bat at it and it flies off the outer half past backward point and races to the fence. The bat flew towards the leg-side but he still managed to find the fence

Taskin Ahmed to Hardik Pandya, FOUR, no look shot from Hardik Pandya! He oozed confidence there. Back of a length ball angling in on middle and leg, Hardik Pandya arches back and ramps it over the keeper's head. He doesn't even look back. So much swagger there

Taskin Ahmed to Nitish Reddy, 1 run, very full ball tailing towards the pads, flicked to deep square leg

Taskin Ahmed to Hardik Pandya, leg byes, 1 run, a searing yorker tailing in sharply, Hardik Pandya loses balance as he tries to flick and it deflects off his boot towards square leg for a leg-bye. There was an appeal from Taskin Ahmed but it was clearly going down leg

Taskin Ahmed [2.0-0-29-0] is back into the attack

Rishad Hossain to Hardik Pandya, 1 run, 82kph flighted delivery outside off, Hardik Pandya hits it towards long-on to keep strike

Rishad Hossain to Hardik Pandya, no run, the slider on a back of a length on middle, bunted back to Rishad Hossain

Rishad Hossain to Hardik Pandya, SIX, what a shot! On the shorter side around off, Hardik Pandya stands tall and smacks it from the crease over deep extra cover. Generated so much power with his quick hands there. Brilliant hit

Rishad Hossain to Hardik Pandya, no run, quicker and flatter outside off, Hardik Pandya chops it off the bottom half. Mehidy at slip hardly has time to react and it deflects off his boot to his right

Rishad Hossain to Hardik Pandya, 2 runs, in the air... but safe! On a length outside off, Hardik Pandya throws his bat at it and gets a top-edge. It lands well short of the fielder running in from sweeper cover

Looks like Litton Das has hurt his finger while trying to collect the throw on the last ball. The physio comes out to attend to him. The magic spray comes out and he is good to go

Rishad Hossain to Nitish Reddy, 1 run, floated on a length outside off, Nitish Reddy taps it towards cover-point for a run. There's an overthrow as the deflection from the keeper goes through backward square leg but the batters don't take an extra run