Nitish Reddy and Rinku Singh (Photo Source: BCCI)
India continued to hammer Bangladesh, securing a huge 86-run win in the second T20I in Delhi. The home team also sealed the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh 2-0 with a match to go.
India was put in to bat but did not get off to the best of starts having lost three wickets in the powerplay. The youngsters Nitish Kumar Reddy (74 off 34) and Rinku Singh (53 off 29) fought back with a 108-run partnership to firmly put the match in India’s favor. Hardik Pandya (32 off 19) made another swift contribution near the end, but a flurry of wickets at the death overs, including three in the last over kept India’s score to 221/9. Taskin Ahmed (2 for 16) was the pick of the bowlers being the only one to go below nine runs an over.
Bangladesh too started poorly with the bat, losing three wickets in the powerplay, and could not find it in themselves to stage a fightback. Mahmudullah (41 off 39) was the only batter who could survive a barrage from the Indian bowlers. While Varun Chakravarthy (2 for 19) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (2 for 23) were the best performers, each of the seven bowlers that India employed managed to pick up a wicket. India then completed an 86-run win by restricting Bangladesh to 135/9.
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Here are the most important stats from the match:
3 – Nitish Reddy and Rinku Singh’s partnership of 108 is the third highest stand for the fourth wicket for India in T20Is.
36 – This was India’s 36th total of 200 or more in T20Is. Australia is a distant second with 23.
7 – The number of bowlers that took a wicket for India in this match is the joint-highest ever in T20Is.
11 – India is now the 11th instance of 7 bowlers taking a wicket in a single T20I innings. Of the previous 10, four had come from full member teams.
7 – India had seven previous instances of six different bowlers taking a wicket in a T20I.
5 – Nitish Kumar Reddy became the fifth Indian player to score a fifty and take two wickets in a single T20I. Of the five instances, Reddy’s is the only one where the player crossed 70 runs.
1 – At 21 years and 136 days old, Nitish Kumar Reddy also became the youngest Indian to score a fifty and take two wickets in a single T20I. Reddy is also the second youngest player from any full member country to achieve this feat after Brian Bennett of Zimbabwe who was 20 years and 184 days old when he achieved the feat.
2 – At 21 years and 136 days old, Nitish Kumar Reddy is the second youngest player to win the Player of the Match Award for India in T20Is. The youngest is Rohit Sharma who had won at the age of 20 years and 143 days.