Match 2 : India vs Bangladesh |
Date: Thu, Mar 08 2018 |
R Premadasa Cricket Stadium, Colombo |
Time : 19:00 local(13:30 GMT|19:00 IST) |
Vijay Shankar's excellent bowling & Dhawan's confident batting helps India to knees down Bangladesh by 6 wkts
2nd twenty20i match of Nidahas Trophy t20i tri-series played between India and Bangladesh at R Premdasa International Cricket Stadium, Colombo today. Putting into bat first by India, Bangladesh managed to put small total of 139 runs in 20 overs. V Shankar and JD Unadkat bowled well for India and took 2 and 3 wickets respectively. India in reply made chase easily in 18.4 overs and win the match by 6 wickets. Vijay Shankar declared man of the match for his excellent bowling and took 2 wickets.
Earlier, India won the toss and put Bangladesh into bat first. Bangladesh most batsmen feild to stood in middle for long and kept losing wickets in regular interwals. o big partnetships were made and in 20 overs managed to put 140 runs target for India. Lotin Das (34) and Sabbi Rahman (30) were top scorers for Bangladesh. Vijay Shankar and J Undakat bowled well for India and shared 5 wickets as well.
Following small target of 140 runs, India got good start but lost skipper RG Sharma in 4th over scoring 17 runs and RR Pant also followed him contributing just 7 runs. S Dhawan and SK Raina took the charge in hand for India and played good sensible cricket in middle overs. Both played well and added 68 runs for 3rd wicket before Raina got out scoring 28 runs. S Dhawan played well and contibuted well 55 runs before left the field. Rest was done by MK Pandey and KD Karthik and India convinsingly win the match by 6 wickets with 8 balls remaining.
Man of the match :- V Shankar (India) |
Points : India 2, Bangladesh 0 |
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