India cruised to a series win against Bangladesh after dominating show from the young guns

India go 2-0 up in 3 match T20I series

It was yet another evidence to the fearless approach of team India at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi where despite losing three quick wickets batting first, two young guns Nitish Reddy and Rinku Singh came to the party showing no signs of taking back step and instead counter attacked Bangladeshi bowlers to keep them at bay. Winning the toss Bangladeshi captain Najmul Hossain Shanto opts to Bowl and the bowlers responded well taking three early wickets including the big wicket of Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav.

Samson was the first batsmen to head back to pavilion as he became the victim of Taskin Ahmed. He made only 10 runs and would be kicking himself to waste yet another opportunity. Then the exciting young talent Abhishek Sharma at the individual score of 15 fall prey to Tanzim Hasan Sakib who replaced Shoriful Islam for this match. Indian fans would have expected the captain’s knock from Suryakumar Yadav, but it wasn’t to be as Mustafizur ended his innings for just 8 runs.

It was 41 for 3 when two explosive young talent of team India joined hands and shown no signs of nervousness and stamped the new fearless approach in front of the world taking India’s score past 100 at the end of just 10 overs. Spinner Rishad Hossain was particularly taken to hammer during 10^th over as both Rinku and Nitish scored 24 of him. Nitish showed his power and range of shots he possessed and looked promising to be the permanent feature in the T20 team along with Rinku Singh. Nitish scored 74 of just 34 balls. Rinku on the other hand proved his mettle yet again scoring quickfire 53 of just 29 balls. Hardik provided the finish yet again scoring 32 of 19 balls and Riyan Parag contributed with a cameo of 15 which came of just 6 balls. India lost quick wickets in the end but still scored a mammoth 221 for 9 leaving Bangladesh with a tough chase. Taskin Ahmed was pick of the bowlers for Bangladesh as he finished his spell with 2/16 in his 4 overs.

In reply, Bangladesh never got the start that was needed and kept losing the wickets at regular intervals. Mahmudullah was the top scorer for them scoring 41 runs, but it was never going to be enough with no other batsman giving any assistance in the middle. All the seven bowlers who bowled for India got wickets among which Nitish Reddy and Varun Chakravorty shared 2 each. It was all round performance from Nitish Reddy scoring 74 runs and getting 2/23 in his 4 over spell. Bangladesh could only score 135/9 in their 20 overs and lost to India by huge margin of 86 runs. Arshdeep, Mayank Yadav, Parag and Sunder all chipped in with a wicket each to their name. The Indian captain will be happy with the way things are going.

Both the teams will now be heading to Hyderabad at Rajiv Gandhi International stadium where the last match of the series will be played on 12th October. Indian management can look to test their bench  strength and on the other hand, Bangladesh team would look to find something to get anything from this tough tour of India.