IND vs BAN: Six-hitting Nitish Reddy excels in India’s win over Bangladesh

The 21-year aged Nitish Reddy showed however to locomotion that speech by hammering 74 runs successful 34 balls and past with the shot picked up 2 for 23. The right-hander smacked 7 sixes, six disconnected them were against the spinners. At 1 signifier Reddy was 13 disconnected 13 balls but shook disconnected the jitters by muscling Mahmudullah implicit wide long-on for a six to unfastened the floodgates.

Mayhem was unleashed from the 10th over. Anything successful his arc went retired of the park. Leg-spinner Rishad Hossain showed bosom by tossing it up twice, and Reddy launched them some into the 2nd tier — 1 consecutive implicit the sightscreen and the different implicit heavy mid-wicket. Nitish recovered an capable enactment from Rinku. In the last shot of the 10th over, Rinku pummelled a shortish shot implicit mid-wicket for a six arsenic the leg-spinner bled 24 runs that over.

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It was Rinku who had started the flurry of six-hitting but erstwhile Nitish recovered his groove, helium took implicit the all-out aggressor role. The champion changeable of the lucifer came successful the 11th over: Reddy walked crossed the stumps and waited earlier adjacent Mustafizur had deed his bowling stride, and walloped the back-of-length shot implicit long-off.

His maiden planetary 50 came successful 27 balls and toyed with Mehidy Hasan Miraz, slamming 3 sixes and 1 bound successful an implicit that leaked 26 runs. Against tally of play, Nitish fell, foxed by a slower 1 from Mustafizur and the 42-ball 108-run basal for the 4th wicket was yet broken.

The six-hitting, though, didn’t halt with Reddy’s wicket.

Rinku Singh celebrates scoring his half-century during the 2nd India-Bangladesh T20I. (Express photograph by Praveen Khanna)

Hardik Pandya tonked Rishad Hossain for a maximum implicit wide long-off. Rinku, who was playing the 2nd fiddle, went into turbo mode against Tanzim Hasan Sakib and completed his 3rd half-century with a half-century with a six successful conscionable 26 balls. Rinku’s enterprising sound was ended by Taskin Ahmed, who finished his spell with 4-0-16-2, portion Pandya scored a quickfire 19-ball 32.

Riyan Parag provided the last flourish by pumping 2 back-to-back sixes disconnected Tanzim Hasan Sakib. The six-fest didn’t end, arsenic adjacent the No. 10 Arshdeep Singh slogged Rishad Hossain for a six, triggering overmuch amusement successful the dugout.

The astir fascinating facet of India’s innings was that barring skipper Suryakumar Yadav (8 disconnected 10), the onslaught complaint of India’s top-seven was 135 plus. Reddy batted with a onslaught complaint of 217.64, Rinku astatine 182.74, Pandya astatine 168.42 and Parag astatine 250. India completed their innings with 15 sixes, portion Bangladesh managed lone four.

Meek surrender

After the seven-wicket nonaccomplishment successful the archetypal T20I, skipper Najmum Shanto had pointed retired that his squad are obscurity adjacent to India erstwhile it comes to accomplishment acceptable and mentality.

“We play connected 140-150 wickets astatine home. Our batters don’t cognize however to people 180 runs. I won’t blasted conscionable the wickets, but we person to see skills and mentality,” helium had said.

It was a akin communicative successful Delhi arsenic good arsenic Bangladesh surrendered meekly again and could negociate lone 135 for 9.

Arshdeep struck again with the caller shot to cleanable up Parvez Hossain Emon portion Washington Sundar took retired the captain. Varun Chakravarthy (2 for 19) continued the bully enactment helium started successful Gwalior, knocking retired Litton Das with a beauty. Part-timer Abhishek Sharma and Riyan Parag excessively chipped successful with a wicket apiece. For Bangladesh, Mahmudullah apical scored with 41, but immoderate semblance of combat had agelong evaporated from the arena by then.