Some things are just hard to believe in cricket

 nstead ,Virat Kholi gained almost Sachin Tendulkar status with his winning innings against Australia as the nation soon forgot they came within a whisker of being dumped out as Bangladesh choked to lose by one run.

I wonder if that game has been put to bed by the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption and security unit? After chatting to several people still involved in cricket in one way or another, and far more suspicious of goings on than the man in the street, they have raised their eyebrows and have been shaking their heads.

Sir Ronnie Flanagan, chairman of the unit issued this statement before the World Cup:

"The ICC has taken all the necessary steps to ensure that the upcoming 2016 ICC World Twenty20 to be hosted by India is free of any possible corruption.

"It will be difficult for me to talk about specific details about an ongoing case, but quite recently we have reason to believe that members of a particular team have intentions to manipulate events in forthcoming matches."

The sources say that this statement was not aimed at either India or Bangladesh but to make a statement like this can point a finger at any or all of the teams taking part.

Certainly something  just doesn't look right when the batting side have to score two runs from three balls with plenty of wickets in hand, and they fall a run short.

Two runs off three balls is schoolboy stuff. It is hard to imagine the odds against this occurring in cricket anywhere unless the bowler produces three great deliveries , and let's face it, the over from Hardik  Pandya was ordinary at best.

If one is sympathetic  Mushfiqur Rahim may have had a huge adrenalin rush which lead to his pull shot in to the hands of the fielder, but Mahmudullah is a classy and orthodox player by todays high octane T20 standards and seeing him trying to swing a hip high full toss over mid-wicket when he had the whole off-side to work with begs questioning.

Then we come to the last ball when one run is needed to tie the game and the opportunity of a extra over.  Mustafizur Rahman is at the non-strikers end, doesn't follow the bowler on his run up so loses valuable metres in his race for a single, and is inexplicably run out, beaten to his crease by MS Dhoni. The fact that Shuvagata Hom did not just get bat on ball and take off is also a bit of a mystery.

Of course cricket has a wonderfully colourful history in teams winning from impossible situations. People of my generation will never forget Botham's Series in 1981 when the English team won the Ashes, so was the India versus Bangladesh game just another one of these or were there other forces at play?  Believe me there are definitely two opinions out there.

Unfortunately the track record of Sir Ronnie's unit is not great as was demonstrated when it took a Lou Vincent confession for the anti-corruption unit to decide there was something untoward in the 2011 Sussex versus Kent match, so it is unlikely that any questions will be raised.