Sharma, Sundar take India into T20 tri-series final

Captain Rohit Sharma and off-spinner Washington Sundar helped India enter the Twenty20 tri-arrangement last with a 17-run prevail upon Bangladesh in Colombo on Wednesday. 

Sharma's overwhelming 89 guided India to 176-3 and after that Sundar guaranteed three wickets to limit Bangladesh to 159-6 at the R Premadasa Stadium, AFP reports. 

Mushfiqur Rahim's unbeaten 55-ball 72, his second progressive 50 years, went futile as India secured their third win in four matches. 

They now anticipate the victor of the last association challenge, which is a virtual semi-last amongst Bangladesh and hosts Sri Lanka on Friday. 

"I felt we were 10-15 runs short with the bat toward the end, however they (Bangladesh) knocked down some pins splendidly at the demise," Sharma, who was named man of the match, said after the win. 

"Washington began splendidly with the ball and his enchanted spell changed the diversion for us. The whole knocking down some pins unit excessively stuck, making it impossible to their plans and pulled it off for us," he included. 

Sundar got three best Bangladesh batsmen including risky left-gave opener Tamim Iqbal for 27 to wreck the restriction pursue at 40-3. 

Mushfiqur at that point put on 65 keeps running for the fifth wicket with Sabbir Rahman, who made 27, to give India a terrify yet the expanding run-rate at long last got to the Bangladesh pursue. 

Sundar returned great figures of 3-22 while leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal and pacemen Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur asserted a wicket each. 

"It was imperative for me and Chahal to bowl well.... 

My four overs and Chahal's four overs were extremely critical and those eight overs turned bravo," Sundar told journalists. 

"On the off chance that we play to our potential then we could win the competition." 

Prior Sharma, who hit shape after scores of 0, 17 and 11, crushed five fours and the same number of sixes in his 61-ball thump after India were put into bat first. 

Following a vigilant begin against a trained Bangladesh knocking down some pins, India cut free with Sharma and Suresh Raina, who crushed 47, assembling 102 keeps running for the second wicket. 

Sharma, who enrolled his thirteenth T20 50 years, additionally put on 70 keeps running with kindred opener Shikhar Dhawan, who made 35, to lay a strong stage. 

Paceman Rubel Hossain guaranteed two wickets and furthermore ran Sharma out off his own playing on the last bundle of the innings. 

"On the off chance that we would have yielded ten less runs then we could've won," Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah said. 

"While rocking the bowling alley, our arrangement was to bowl the yorker however we didn't execute them legitimately. Anticipating the Sri Lanka diversion, we will make a decent attempt at them." 

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have both lost two of their three matches. The last is slated for Sunday.