India vs Bangladesh T20I
IND vs BAN: India won the second T20I match in Delhi and clinched the series against Bangladesh. India had won the first T20I match by 7 wickets and now after winning the second match by 86 runs, they have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match T20I series. Batting first, India scored 221 runs losing 9 wickets. Nitish Reddy and Rinku Singh scored brilliant half-centuries for India.
While chasing India’s score of 221 runs, Bangladesh’s batsmen could not hold on and the entire team could score only 135 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. In this way India achieved its 28th victory in the year 2024. Now India will have a chance to equal the record of most wins in a calendar year in the next match. Uganda holds the record for most wins in a calendar year. Uganda had achieved 29 victories in the year 2023. This is India’s 9th consecutive win in T20I.
Most wins in a calendar year (including Super Over wins)
- 29 Uganda (2023)
- 28 India (2022)
- 21 Tanzania (2022)
- 20* India (2024)
- 20 Pakistan (2020)
Team India did a big miracle for the first time
India, after being invited to bat first and scoring 221 runs for 9 wickets, restricted Bangladesh’s innings to 135 runs for 9 wickets. Mahmudullah scored the highest score of 41 runs for Bangladesh. Varun Chakraborty and Nitish Kumar Reddy took two wickets each for India. Apart from scoring a brilliant half-century in his second match, Nitish Reddy also took 2 wickets. For this brilliant performance he was awarded the Player of the Match award.
In this match, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav used 7 bowlers. Nitish Reddy and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets each while Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Mayank Yadav, Abhishek Sharma and Ryan Parag took 1-1 wicket. In this way Team India created a new history. Actually, this is the first time that 7 Indian bowlers have done a great feat of taking wickets in an international match.
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