South Africa set Bangladesh 170

Sport Correspondent: Bangladesh came back well and restricted South Arica to 169 though their openers Quinton de Kock and AB de Villiers laid a strong platform for the visitors in the second and final Twenty20 International of a two-match series in Dhaka on Tuesday.

The Proteas scored 169 for 4 in 20 overs after they won toss and chose to bat first at Shere Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

Bangladesh left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny made de Kock caught at midwicket by Sabbir Rahman in the 11th over after South Africa made a 95-run opening partnership off 63 balls. Kock scored 44 runs off 31 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes.

Nasir Hossain then bagged the wickets of JP Duminy (6) and AB de Villiers in two consecutive balls of the next over. Villiers scored 40 off 34 balls hitting 6 fours.

South Africa captain Faf du Plessis (16) and David Miller then added only 34 runs off 37 balls. Plessis was caught by Mushfiqur Rahim off Mustafizur Rahman in the 18th over.

David Miller and Rilee Rossouw then added 33 runs off 14 balls in the last wicket unbroken partnership. Millier was unbeaten on 30 while Rossouw on 19 who made the score off only 6 balls smashing 1 four and 2 sixes.

Nasir Hossain claimed 2 wickets for 26 while Arafat Sunny and Mustafizur Rahman shared two between them.

Bangladesh have left out Sohag Gazi and gave debut to Rony Talukdar while legspinner Eddie Leie got his maiden T20 cap in place of Kagiso Rabada for South Africa.

The visitors lead the series by 1-0 with a 52-run win in the first match on last Sunday.

Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Shakib Al Hasan, 4 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 5 Sabbir Rahman, 6 Litton Das, 7 Nasir Hossain, 8 Rony Talukdar, 9 Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), 10 Arafat Sunny, 11 Mustafizur Rahman.

South Africa: 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 AB de Villiers 3 Rilee Rossouw, 4 Faf du Plessis (capt), 5 JP Duminy, 6 David Miller, 7 Wayne Parnell, 8 Aaron Phangiso, 9 Eddie Leie, 10 David Wiese, 11 Kyle Abbott.

risingbd/DHAKA/July 7, 2015/Augustin Sujan