In the under-19 cricket World Cup of 2002, India played Bangladesh in a league match and lost by two wickets in a close encounter. India scored a mere 77 runs led by a top order collapse. Bangladesh made heavy weather of the chase, slumping to 64/8 before they scraped through.
This match has come back into prominence in recent times because of something that involved the Bangladeshi opening bowler Shafaq Al Zabir. Why?
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The latest IPL sensation Paul Valthaty was hit by a Shafaq ball that somehow squeezed through his visor. This resulted in an eye injury that kept Valthaty out of the game for a long while and significantly impeded his progress in domestic cricket since then, until a minor resurrection in the form of an IPL ton for his Punjab side.