India vs Bangladesh, Champions Trophy 2025 Highlights: Shubman Gill's gritty ton takes IND to 6-wicket win

India vs Bangladesh Live Score: And now we have Ravindra Jadeja for the first time in the tournament in the 14th over. Hardik Pandya bowled a couple in the 10th and 12th overs and now Jadeja comes in to replace him. It means Bangladesh will have to deal with spin from both ends for a while. Not that they have fared far better against pace today. What an absolute horror start to the campaign for them. And to think Shanto was saying that they are looking to win the Champions Trophy. Well, might be a bit difficult to do that if your top four cannot put together 50 runs.

Bangladesh 50/5 in 13 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score: Axar draws the batter forward again, this time it is Jaker Ali, turns away again but this time the edge carries to slip and not the wicketkeeper. Came to Rohit's thighs, he had it! He had it in his hands and then it pops right out. India have been exceptional in the field today and then comes this goober.

Wow Jaker Ali gets off the mark next ball and then a dot. An incredible start for Axar, Rohit had apologised to him after pounding the turf, he seems inconsolable even after the end of the over. Fact remains, though, Bangladesh have been ripped to shreds here.

Bangladesh 36/5 in 9 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score: What is going on here! Axar bowls the second one wide of the crease, a lot of flight. Mushfiqur drawn forward and it turns, takes the shoulder of the bat and Rahul makes no mistake again. No doubts this time, Axar knew that was a wicket, as did everyone in the stadium

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Bangladesh 35/4 in 8.3 overs

IND vs BAN LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025: KL Rahul is convinced he has taken the catch, Axar doesn't really even appeal but umpire Paul Reiffel lifts the finger! The batter even decides to not review! Then he wants to try and review after the timer has run out. What a bizarre sequence of events!

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Bangladesh 35/4 in 8.2 overs

IND vs BAN LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Mohammed Shami has taken two wickets already and is now sitting on 199 ODI wickets. He will be the eighth Indian to reach that mark but he will have to wait for a chance to get there for now as Rohit Sharma brings in Axar Patel to bowl the first over of spin after Harshit Rana bowled the eighth.

Bangladesh 35/3 in 8 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Another one bites the dust, and it's Shami again! Some width to Miraz, who flashes at it and can only get a thick edge. Shubman Gill at wide slip, and it's another good sharp catch above his head.

India well ahead. 26/3 now.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Bangladesh finding some runs against Shami. First Tanzid with another lovely loft over mid-on, before Mehidy Hasan Miraz pierces the off-side field for four more.

22/2 after 5.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Almost bad to worse for Bangladesh! Shreyas Iyer is rapid in the ring, hunts down the ball and fires at the non-striker's end, where Tanzid has come down a touch too far.

It's inches from hitting the stumps, Tanzid would have been well short of the crease as he tried to get back.

13/2 after 4 overs.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: No holding back from Tanzid even as he's seen two partners fall already. Over cover against Shami for the first boundary, and steps out to cream one through the gap on the next.

11/2 after 3 overs now.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Another one! This time it's Harshit. Angles it across, Shanto goes hard, but it's uppish. Kohli is in the perfect position to take a sharp catch at short cover.

2-2, Bangladesh already in huge trouble.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Bang! There's the first wicket already.

Shami from around the wicket to the lefty Sarkar, gets one to seam in. It's a poor and loose shot, not there to drive, and an inside edge is easily puched by KL Rahul.

1-1 after the first over. Just the start.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Shami takes the first over. India need to get overs into the legs of Shami and Harshit, particularly in this phase, with neither a typical new-ball bowler like Bumrah or Siraj.

A play and miss early on by Soumya Sarkar, who opens alongside Tanzid.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Plenty of pride as these neighbouring nations sing their national anthems, and we are only seconds away from the first ball being bowled in Dubai.

Sunny out in the middle, the threat of rain ebbing away.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Maybe a slight surprise as Bangladesh take in three seamers, but no Nahid Rana, who is so highly rated:

Tanzid Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Towhid Hridoy, Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Jaker Ali, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Sakib, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Two experienced stars return for India with Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja:

Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Najmul Hossain Shanto is the one to win the toss, and opts to bat first in Dubai.

Rohit Sharma states he would have opted to field, left to be seen if it was a good toss to lose.

Team updates next.

IND vs BAN LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Seconds away from the toss now. Batting first might be the call to make here.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Mel Jones out in the middle with the pitch report. Big boundaries, especially down the ground, but one side square is shorter, which might be targeted.

Not too much grass on the pitch itself, and only slight cracks in the pitch. Nasser Hussain states dew won't play a role in the evening, as per the grounds team.

Win toss and bat first kind of pitch, according to the former England captain. Toss in 10 minutes…

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: It didn’t go too well the last time India took Varun Chakravarthy into an ICC tournament in the UAE, but this is a different Varun, currently in red-hot form, on the back of a terrific Vijay Hazare Trophy and international return.

Rohit Sharma praised the spinner in his press conference:

“He has got something different which is why he is here with us. He has been impressive in the last eight to nine months. That is why we wanted to bring him here and see what he has and what he can do for India on the big stage."

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: India don’t have to be too concerned by Pandya’s lack of runs heading into the tournament, given he has been batting relatively low and in low-pressure situations. However, it will be concerning that he found himself dismissed cheaply multiple times. Can the powerful lower-order hitter find the sort of range that made his last Champions Trophy performance so memorable, albeit in a losing cause? It’s an added dimension to India’s batting that could make them terrifying.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: We could see a pair of hugely important marks being reached today by two of India’s greatest ODI players. Rohit Sharma is only 12 runs short of becoming only the fourth Indian player to reach the 11,000 ODI run mark, while Virat Kohli needs 37 to join Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara with 14,000+ ODI runs.

Do you back this duo to reach their targets today? Would be a great start to the tournament.

IND vs BAN LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Adding on to our earlier update, it seems now that the early part of the game could well be affected by rain. At 12:00 PM local time, Dubai is expecting some rainfall, with the match scheduled to begin at 1 PM local.

Dubai also had some rain yesterday, as it has had through the week, which could indicate that the weather might play a fairly significant role. One can hope it doesn't affect the match too much.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Of course, in a tight group setting such as this one, every result impacts every other. New Zealand’s comfortable and dominant win over the hosts in the first match in Karachi will set the tone for the rest of these group stages: India know that all the pressure will be on Pakistan in that huge rivalry match, if they can get the job done against Bangladesh.

Conversely, Pakistan will be keeping an anxious eye on this match themselves. Finishing second or higher in this group is a non-negotiable, and already, that might mean needing results to start going their way.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025:… they suffered one of their most embarrassing defeats – first to Pakistan and then New Zealand to crash out of the 2021 T20 World Cup. It was the first time that Pakistan ever beat India in a World Cup, and also the only instance since the 2012 T20 World Cup that the Men in Blue failed to reach the knockout stage of an ICC event.

In 2022, it was Dubai again, where India stumbled in the Super 4s and couldn't progress to the final of the 2022 Asia Cup. Three years later, they are back at a venue they don't have the greatest memories of. But if there was ever a good time to create one, it's now.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Questioned about the decision to take these many spin bowlers into the tournament, Rohit Sharma argued back, stating that was not how the team saw this combination.

"They are 2 spinners and 3 all-rounders. I am not looking at them as 5 spinners. Those three guys can bat and can bowl also. The rest of the teams have fast-bowling all-rounders. You don't ask them why they have 6 fast bowlers," argued Rohit.

"We work on our strengths and build our team around it. Axar Patel and Washington Sundar give us a different dimension to our squad. They give us a lot of depth. That is why we wanted to try and bring players who have 2 skills rather than one skill.”