Sports desk: Bangladesh’s Nurul Hasan Sohan crouches in despair after failing to hit a six in the last delivery of the match that would’ve ended the contest against India to a draw. Bangladesh needed 11 off the final two deliveries to win. Sohan, who scored 13 runs, hit a four and then had to settle for a single in the last ball of the match, while Taskin took a single in the first ball of the over. Photo: BCB
Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan reminded everyone of the recurring theme that has dominated recent India-Bangladesh T20Is after the Tigers pushed India to the brink again before spiralling to an anticlimactic finish in the T20 World Cup.

The Super 12 match produced yet another thriller, this time at the Adelaide Oval in Brisbane, as the men in blue eked out a five-run win.

Bangladesh have never beaten India in a T20 World Cup and have won just once while losing 12 times in T20Is to their neighbours. But in recent years, the two teams have delivered several exciting contests with Bangladesh coming out second-best in all but one fixture, a solitary T20I win during a bilateral series in Delhi in 2019.

Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan alluded to that overarching theme, saying: “That has been the story when we play India. We are almost there but we can’t cross the finish line,” Shakib said at the post-match interview.