Three out of three for boys in blue, first prelims over

The victory, India8217;s third in as many matches, enabled them to top group C.

Leg-spinner Abhishek Sharma and left-arm tweaker Praveen Gupta shared the bowling honours for the winners with three scalps apiece while Aftab Ahmed was the top-scorer for Bangldesh with a 29-ball 44.

Put into bat, India were off to a flying start with Dhawan, who had scored an unbeaten 155 against Scotland, putting on 135 runs for the first wicket with Robin Uthappa 59 in 24.1 overs. Uthappa8217;s dismissal was followed by the hosts snaring two more quick wickets, that of Ambati Rayudu 10 and Suresh Raina 2 in a space of seven overs to check the scoring rate.

But the late order batsmen 8212; Dinesh Karthik 25, Gaurav Dhiman 32 and Abhishek Sharma 23 used the long-handle to good effect to take the score past the 300-mark.

Brief scores:

India: 309-7 in 50 overs S Dhawan 120, R Uthappa 59; N Chowdhury 2-45, N Islam 2-47 beat

Bangladesh 178 all out in 40.3 overs A Ahmed 44, D Ghosh 26; P Gupta 3-21, A Sharma 3-39 by 131 runs.