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3.31pm GMT
Al-Amin is the next seamer to be thrown to Rohit Sharma and his first ball is too short and swivel-pulled off the front foot into the stands over square leg. The next is ramped, Jos Buttler style, down to third man for three more. Al-Amin looks incredibly innocuous here, although he too finds the slashing Dhawan's bottom edge. In fact this is a woeful innings from the left-handed opener, mercifully ended. The wicket brings the soothing sight of Virat Kohli to the crease.
3.30pm GMT
Dances down the wicket, thrashes a wobbly bat at an awful angle and, for the third time, gets the inside edge. This time though it crashes into the stumps. Mercifully.
3.26pm GMT
Sohag Gazi is an off-spinner and the man to bowl from the other end. His first couple of balls turn into the batsman and are worked to the packed leg gully region for no run. It's good bowling that doesn't bely his career economy of 8.62. Dhawan is the latest batsman to get lucky as he gets off of 0 with a French cut to fine leg. Another good over for three runs.
In other news, betting adverts are making me hate Beyonce's 'Crazy in Love'.
3.21pm GMT
Here we go. Rohit gets off the mark with a couple thanks to a chop to deep backward point from Mortaza's first ball. A big cheer goes up as Rohit has a waft outside off stump, but he's missed it and that's not out, as per the laws of cricket. And of T20. Another single run down to third man and that's that for the over.
3.18pm GMT
The ground DJs have come in for some stick, not least on these pages, and I was about to write that he has redeemed himself by playing Don Henley's magnificent 'The Boys of Summer' before I realised it was 'Summer of 69'. For which he can do one.
3.09pm GMT
Have beaten Bangladesh by 73 runs, to boost their qualification chances.
2.59pm GMT
Join me in twenty minutes or so as we watch them chase that down with nine balls to spare and win by seven wickets. I'm calling it.
2.58pm GMT
After two wickets off the first two balls Mahmadullah has a swing and a miss, but is deep enough in his crease that there's no chance of a hat-trick. Single to mid-on before Mishra again turns it past the flailing bat. Oh but then the last ball of the innings is deposited high over cow corner for a big six.
2.56pm GMT
Walks down the track and slogs it to deep long-off. Mishra on a hat-trick.
2.55pm GMT
Mishra it will be to finish the innings off and he gets a stumping identical to those he managed in each of the first two games. Drifted and broke past the outside edge with the batsman dancing down the track getting bat nowhere near ball. Dhoni completes the jobs.
2.53pm GMT
Nasir Hossain no, not him pushes a far nicer-looking cover drive to the fence off of a Kumar full toss. The good news is that India are almost certainly going to have to chase more than 130 this time and might, therefore, be forced to take the odd risk. Only the odd one, mind. As long as we don't see the same kind of nonsense we did from Yuvraj in the chase against the West Indies it'll be an improvement. Mahmadullah's eyes light up like broken bails as Kumar sends down a full-toss, but he can only ping it to the fielder at deep mid-on for a single.
2.48pm GMT
A lovely bit of fielding on the extra cover boundary by Jadeja prevents four more as the batsman looks to launch Shami over cover. Mahmadullah gets him over cow corner though, for a one-bounce four, with another of those disgusting-looking heaves. He then inside-edges four more down to the long leg boundary as Shami sends down a good yorker. The fact that this innings from Mahmadullah is an effective one is emblematic of why so many people don't like T20. It really can be an ugly sport.
2.43pm GMT
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2.43pm GMT
Mishra sends down something resembling a flipper outside off stump and Mahmadulla puts it over cow corner with his bat. That was so agricultural it might have been played in a dairy by Kieron Pollard. A few balls later it's dragged down short and Mahmadullah cuts the ball, turning away from him, hard off the back foot for another four behind point. From the final ball he tries a reverse sweep but gets all a-tangled and can't lay bat on it.
2.40pm GMT
Apparently India win 100 per cent of their matches where the spinners pick up four or more wickets. Can we learn anything from that? Surely if the seamers took those wickets instead, for the exact same number of runs, they'd win anyway? Mahmadullah sweeps a leg-side delivery from Ashwin around the corner for four runs down to fine leg and eight off the over is a relatively decent return.
2.37pm GMT
Mahmadullah plays forward, bat miles from body, to Jadeja and nearly falls over. Dhoni whips the bails off and they light up like the eyes of a T-101, but the batsman just about had his foot grounded. He responds to the good news that he's not out with a skewed square drive through point for four more, again his bat too far from his body for it to be a convincing shot. It's 90-5 after 15 overs and that tells you everything about how much fun this is.
2.33pm GMT
Three singles. Watching clueless batsmen go up against wily spinners may be exciting in the growing tension of a Test match, but in the razzle dazzle T20 format it's not great.
2.31pm GMT
Anamul gets a couple to move on to 44, which is Bangladesh's highest score of the tournament including the qualifying matches, I believe. He gets very lucky the ball after though, as he nearly falls over playing forward to Mishra; the ball evades Dhoni though and goes through for four byes. Can he get his 50? No. Mahmadullah comes in now and still no Bangladeshi batsman has 50 in this competition.
2.30pm GMT
Oh what a ball that is! A massive googly, with a bit of top-spin thrown in for good measure, coming back into the right hander and turning an absolute mile to clip the top of off-stump. Anamul has played well but had no chance with that one.
2.27pm GMT
Another lovely drive over cover for six by Anamul, who isn't so much carrying the innings as... you know I'm not sure how to finish that sentence. You know where I was going with it anyway. Nine off of Jadeja's over and if it wasn't for that disastrous powerplay then Bangladesh would be looking at a challenging total here.
2.24pm GMT
Decent recovery or not, this run rate isn't going to unduly worry Rohit and Kohli. Anamul needs to hang around and really hammer it later... writes your OBOer as Anamul steps back and launches it over mid-off for six. Rahim gets in on the act next, rocking back and playing a lovely old-fashioned cut through backward point to Shami's wide bouncer and getting four runs for his trouble. The captain then throws his wicket away, needlessly as eleven runs had already come from the over.
2.23pm GMT
Aw just as the over was looking like an absolute cracker for Bangladesh, the captain jabs a short-armed punch straight to Kohli at mid-off. No need to play that shot at all and Rahim has put his side back under the cosh there.
2.18pm GMT
Mishra, man of the match in the two games so far, comes on to bowl now. He's surprisingly lethal for a man with a combover and moustache. It's another wonderful over, with just five singles scampered from it.
Puns from Robin Hazelhurst, in an email with the subject line 'Banglabush Songs':
2.15pm GMT
Rahim looks to slog over cover and gets another four to third man off the edge, then follows it up with a slog-sweep for four more. Rahim seems to get a surprising amount of power out of that shot given how much the bat seems to wobble in his hand when he goes for the big shot.
"Not sure if it's the 'strong zone' or the "most productive shots" that I hate more," write Kabir Sethi. I'd go with the most productive shots, which seems to count 'slog' as an actual shot.
2.12pm GMT
Suresh Raina to bowl now, ahead of Amit Mishra, which is a slight surprise. Anamul heaves him to cow corner for a single, then Rahim pulls him far more convincingly to the square leg fence for another boundary. Anamul has looked a class apart from the rest of the batsmen so far, but that was better from Rahim. Another eight come from this over and I smell a minor recovery here.
2.08pm GMT
"What do you think for the final ball?" asked the commentator at the end of that last over.
"Carrom ball on leg stump I'd say," came the reply moments before Ashwin sent down a regular off-break.
T20 analysis is largely redundant, isn't it? In this over Anamul does a Daft Punk and gets lucky as he has a big mow at Jadeja's quicker ball and gets a thick edge just past Dhoni for four.
2.06pm GMT
There's really little that's more meaningless than the "strong zone" that the broadcasters keep bringing up, is there? Apparently Rahim likes the slog-sweep. In Twenty20. Whoddathunkit? Anamul gets four here with an awkward-looking chip over extra cover. The powerplay finishes with India on top, I'd say.
2.03pm GMT
That was actually a very nice ball from Kumar, shaping back into the left-hander on a good length, although the batsman had his bat a long way away from his body. It looked to me as though Kumar had another next ball, as Raheem flashes a cut at a short, wide one and there appears to be a noise and a change in the ball's trajectory. Neither bowler, keeper, slip nor commentator makes mention of it, so let's assume I need new glasses. Dhoni is standing up to the stumps, trapping the batsman in his crease, and you can see that it's playing on the Bangladeshi batsmen's minds.
2.00pm GMT
This is a big one. Bangladesh's best batsman goes as he prods forward to the returning Kumar and gets an inside edge onto first his pads, then the stumps.
1.59pm GMT
Shakib Al-Hasan is the new man after that disastrous start to the over for Bangladesh. Just one run and those two wickets from the over. I really can't describe how stupid that second wicket was.
1.56pm GMT
What the...? Shamsur comes to the crease, kneels down and slogs the most brainless of sweeps straight to Rohit Sharma at deep square leg. That was as dumb a first-ball dismissal as you'll see.
1.55pm GMT
Oh not this again. Tamim Iqbal edges low to slip where Raina takes a very good catch just off the ground. Umpire Dharmasema looks as though he wants to refer it upstairs to see if it was a clean catch, as happened with Jayawardene yesterday, but fortunately Tamim saves us any controversy by taking the fielder's word and walking off.
1.53pm GMT
Oh dear. The new bowler Shami stops Anamul's drive well and the non-striker Tamim is already halfway down the pitch. Dhawan picked it up a few feet from the stumps and simply has to walk up and knock the bails off, but dives, throws underarm and misses. Anamul then stands tall and cuts a short, wide bit o' filth to the boundary at cover. That and a wide for height are the only runs of the over though and India have got the scoring rate back within manageable levels in nice time.
Meanwhile, here's Kang Howson-Jan with a bit more on those national anthems, for those of you who prefer learning things to sarcy comments about Scottish indie bands:
1.48pm GMT
Well pace was a rubbish idea, wasn't it, MS? Ravi Ashwin will bowl from the other end and Tamim goes on the attack straight away, but his cut is straight to backward point. There's a chance of a run out as Tamim drops it into the leg-side and dashes for a single, but Dhoni can't pick the ball up cleanly and the sniff of a chance has vanished. Just a couple of singles off of a much better over from the spinner.
1.44pm GMT
Out-of-form thriller Tamim Iqbal will open with the magnificently named Anamul Haque, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowling to the left-hander Iqbal. He Iqbal that is goes hard at the second ball and it flies off the face of the bat over second slip for a boundary down to third man. Haque also gets off the mark with a four, punched through cover point off the back foot. It's a great over as Haque clips the final ball nicely off his pads to the square leg boundary.
1.37pm GMT
Both national anthems were written by the same man. That man is presumably Stuart Murdoch of overrated saccharine vomit-inducers Belle and Sebastian given their shared irritating tweeness, that means they could soon soundtrack a John Lewis advert.
1.32pm GMT
@henrygayle Yeah James, Faulk Nah!
1.32pm GMT
"Hi Dan," writes Paul Callinan. "After Faulkner's pre-match comments and final-over bowling performance, at least the Australians can console themselves in the knowledge that they now have a backup [REDACTED] in the unlikely event that "Davey" Warner is somehow struck dumb and unable to produce the pre-match (or post-match) goods."
Yeah James, Faulk Nah.
1.17pm GMT
Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Anamul Haque, Shamsur Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim*, Nasir Hossain, Mahmudullah, Ziaur Rahman, Sohag Gazi, Mashrafe Mortaza, Al-Amin Hossain
India: RG Sharma, S Dhawan, SK Raina, Yuvraj Singh, V Kohli, MS Dhoni*, R Ashwin, RA Jadeja, A Mishra, B Kumar, Mohammed Shami
1.15pm GMT
India win again and will field again. Their line-up is unchanged. Am I going to be OBOing a third identical match in a row?
1.12pm GMT
The other game finished late so the start has been pushed back ten minutes.
1.05pm GMT
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1.04pm GMT
The trend seems to be that all the best matches are the earlier ones, which is good news for our cousins* over at Guardian Australia. Still, if this one is half as thrilling as the game I've just watched then we're in for a treat.
12.57pm GMT
However much they try to ruin this tournament with countdowns and colour-coded sixes and weak zones, the cricket just keeps saving the day.
12.56pm GMT
With 12 needed from the final over, James Faulkner's first four balls to Darren Sammy went dot, dot, six and another six. That means the last two balls weren't bowled and Australia are out!
12.51pm GMT
What! Sammy just played a helicopter leg-glance. The hell was that. #WT20
12.50pm GMT
13 needed from seven balls. Australia set 179 to win, by the way. The Windies have six wickets in hand.
12.44pm GMT
The Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals IPL franchises can rest easier after the threat of their suspension from this year's competition was lifted.
India's Supreme Court has stepped back from the brink in withdrawing its threat to suspend two Indian Premier League franchises, the Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals.
Instead the Court has appointed Sunil Gavaskar, the former Test opener who has been closely associated with the IPL since its inception as a commentator, to take charge of the forthcoming season as "interim working president" of the Board of Control (BCCI).
12.40pm GMT
Don't mind me. If The Guardian was the kind of rag that used the phrase "squeaky bum time" we would be now to describe the Australians' must-win game against the West Indies. The Windies were cruising with Chris Gayle at the crease, but when he departed for 50-odd things got a bit tense. They need another 48 from 19 balls and Russell Jackson has it all. Except for Kate Bush tickets. No I'm not going to shut up about those.
12.30pm GMT
You know who has the best girlfriend in the world? That's right, me. You know whose girlfriend managed to get a couple of Kate Bush tickets? Yep, good guess.
12.30pm GMT
Got your tickets? No, me neither. So "happy" Kate Bush day my backside.
Still, things could be worse: we could be poor old Bangladesh. "You can host the party!" they said. "Put out the food you like, pick the music," they said. "Oh no, you've got to qualify," they quietly added. Then, before poor old Bangladesh had time to blink and say "wait, what?", there was a two-wicket humiliation at the hands of every cricket hipster's new favourite team Hong Kong.