India’s mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy didn’t offer any excuse while reflecting on the number of dropped opportunities, but subtly indicated that the Dubai International Stadium’s lights act as a “disturbance”, making it hard to identify the ball.

In the last two Super Fours fixtures, Indian fielders have been exposed to the harsh reality of taking catches under the light in Dubai. During the six-wicket triumph over Pakistan, four dropped catches and a couple of errors in the field summed up India’s bizarre effort in the field.

The pattern continued on Wednesday, with Saif Hassan, Bangladesh’s lone crusader, being handed four unprecedented lifelines. Indian fielders dropped him on scores of 40, 65, 66 and 67. On the fifth instance, Axar Patel didn’t overcalculate and punched Saif’s r

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