India, Feb. 20 -- India captain Rohit Sharma promised to take teammate Axar Patel for dinner after dropping a simple catch that robbed the all-rounder of a maiden hat-trick in the Champions Trophy Group A match at the Dubai International Stadium on Thursday. In the 9th over of Bangladesh's innings, Axar Patel dismissed Tanzid Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim off successive balls to leave Bangladesh in dire straits. Sensing a hat-trick, captain Rohit deployed two slips and a leg slip to aid Axar. The left-arm spinner produced the best ball of the over to induce the outside edge of Jaker Ali's bat, but Rohit, at first slip, could not hold on to the simple catch.

Axar would have been the first Indian to take a hat-trick in the Champions Trophy but...