Adelaide (Australia): India raised hopes of a semifinal spot with a five-run victory over Bangladesh in a rain-affected Men’s T20 World Cup match on Wednesday.
Bangladesh, chasing 185, raced to 66-0 in seven overs, thanks to Litton Das’ 21-ball fifty before rain stopped play.
Bangladesh were 17 runs ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) par score but saw their target revised to 151 off 16 overs.
Earlier, Virat Kohli became the highest run-scorer in Twenty20 World Cup history as he powered India to 184-6 against in a key Super 12 match
Kohli, who hit an unbeaten 64, and KL Rahul with a blazing 50 put on a key stand of 67 to lay the foundations of a strong total.
India need to win their remaining two matches to be certain of entry into the semi-finals, but Bangladesh are also in the hunt for the knockout stage.
Kohli beat former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene’s total of 1,016 runs in his 23rd innings in T20 World Cups. Jayawardene set his previous World Cup-leading mark off 31 innings.
The in-form Kohli, who had already hit two match-winning half-centuries at this World Cup, reached his third fifty in 37 balls to bring alive the Indian-dominated crowd in Adelaide.
