India converted what should have been a straightforward victory into a slightly tense one, allowing Bangladesh to escape from 35-5 in the ninth over to 228 all out and then surviving a few anxious moments at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Thursday.

In the end, the class and calm of Shubman Gill, the No. 1 ODI batter in the world who brought up his eighth century, helped them begin their Champions Trophy campaign on a winning note, by what eventually was a comfortable margin of six wickets with 21 deliveries to spare. It could have been far easier had skipper Rohit Sharma at first slip not shelled the simplest of chances to let Jaker Ali off the hook and deny Axar Patel a hat-trick. Jaker associated himself in a Bangladesh record sixth-wicket stand of 154 against centurion Towfiq Hridoy to give the total some respectability despite Mohammed Shami’s five-wicket burst, during which time he got to 200 ODI wickets.