India beat Bangladesh by 6 wickets

Sports Desk: India beat Bangladesh by 6 wickets in their second match of the Nidahas Trophy 2018 at the R Premadasa Stadium of Colombo in Sri Lanka on Thursday.

After suffering a five-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in the opening fixture of the Twenty20 series, India clinched the victory to level points with the host Sri Lanka.

In their innings, Tigers managed to score 139 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs.

Opener Tamim Iqbal scored 15 runs off 16 balls with two fours while another opener Soumya Sarkar 14 off 12 with a six and a four.

Liton Das bagged 34 runs off 30 balls with three fours. Mushfiqur Rahim scored 18 runs off 14 balls which includes two fours and a six.

Dashing batsman Sabbir Rahman hit a brilliant innings of 30 runs off 26 balls. Which includes three fours and a six.

For India, Jaydev Unadkat earned three wickets of 38 runs and Vijay Shankar hit two wickets off 32 runs.

Shardul Thakur and Yuzvendra Chahal also shared a wicket for 25 and 19 runs respectively.

In chase, India reached the target losing four wickets with remaining 8 balls left.

Shikhar Dhawan hit a brilliant half-century, 55 off 43 balls. Which includes five fours and two sixes.

Suresh Raina scored 28 runs off 27 balls with a four and a six.

Skipper Rohit Sharma bagged 17 runs off 13 balls with three fours while Rishabh Pant hit 7 runs off 8 balls with a four.

Manish Pandey scored 27 runs off 19 balls. His innings includes three fours.

For Bangladesh, pacer Rubel Hossain achieved two wickets while Mustafizur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed shared a wicket.

The trophy, which was last held in 1998, then a 50-over affair, returns after a period over almost 20 years. It is being organised to mark the 70 years of Sri Lankan independence and this time, it will be a T20I tri-series.

Across seven games, the three teams will battle for the title which starts from March 6 (Tuesday) and the final will be held on March 18 (Sunday). All the games will be played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

 

risingbd/Dhaka/March 08, 2018/A K Azad