Bangladesh beat Australia by 5 wickets in the 2nd T20I match of the series.
The 2nd match of the T20I series was played yesterday between Bangladesh vs Australia at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka, in which Bangladesh beat Australia by 5 wickets.
Australia batted first after winning the toss, scored 121 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted 20 overs, Australia started the inning very badly, lost 2 wickets in just 31 runs, Alex Carey dismissed just for 11 runs in 11 balls, and Josh Philippe dismissed just for 10 runs in 14 balls, after that Mitchell Marsh and Moises Henriques came to bat, handled the inning and played a brilliant half-century partnership of 57 runs, the third wicket fall in 88 runs, Moises Henriques dismissed after scoring 30 runs in 25 balls, next batsman Matthew Wade came to bat, meanwhile the fourth wicket also fall for 99 runs, Mitchell Marsh dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 45 runs with the help of 5 boundries in 45 balls, next batsman Ashton Turner came to bat, meanwhile the fifth wicket also fall in 103 runs, Matthew Wade dismissed just for 4 runs, Ashton Turner dismissed just for 3 runs, Ashton Agar dismissed without scoring, Mitchell Starc and Andrew Tye remain unbeaten, Mitchell Starc for 13 runs, and Andrew Tye for just 3 runs. In this way, Australia batting first after winning the toss scored 121 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and set a target of 122 runs in front of Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi bowler performed brilliantly, Mustafizur Rahman took 3 wickets for 23 runs, Shoriful Islam took 2 wickets for 27 runs, Mahedi Hasan and Shakib Al Hasan took 1-1 wicket.
Bangladesh chasing 121 runs in the second inning, achieved the target very easily by losing just 5 wickets in the fourth ball of the 19th over. Bangladesh also started the inning very poorly, Mohammad Naim and Soumya Sarkar came to start the inning, the first has gone very quickly just in 9 runs, Soumya Sarkar dismissed without scoring, next batsman Shakib Al Hasan came to bat, after few moments the 2nd wicket also fell for 21 runs, Mohammad Naim dismissed for 9 runs in 13 balls, next batsman Mahedi Hasan came to bat, and played well with Shakib Al Hasan, the third wicket fall in 58 runs, Shakib Al Hasan dismissed after scoring 26 runs in 17 balls, followed by Shakib Al Hasan came to bat, and dismissed without scoring as fourth wicket, next batsman Afif Hossain came to bat, after few moments the fifth wicket also fall in 67 runs, Mahedi Hasan dismissed after scoring 23 runs in 24 balls, after that Nurul Hasan came to bat, handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Afif Hossain, Nurul Hasan played an unbeaten inning of 22 runs in 21 balls, and Afif Hossain played a brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 37 runs with the help of 1 six and 5 boundries in 31 balls. In this way, Bangladesh chasing 122 runs in the second inning, they achieved the target very easily by losing just 5 wickets in 18.4 overs and won the match by 5 wickets.
Australian bowlers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Ashton Agar, Adam Zampa, and Andrew Tye got 1-1 wicket.
Bangladeshi batsman Afif Hossain was adjudged the best player of the match, he played a brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 37 runs with the help of 1 six and 5 boundries in 31 balls.
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