USA beat Bangladesh momentarily game straight to declare a historical series victory against the Full Member nation, an initial in their background.
Having signed up an unforeseen win in the very first T20I of the series 2 days back at the Prairie View Cricket Complex in Houston, USA duplicated the feart today (May 23) in the 2nd game to declare an undisputable 2-0 lead in the three-match series
A thrilling support of a reduced overall
Having been placed in to bat, USA battled their method to 144-6 from their 20 overs on a slow-moving pitch. Three of their leading 4 went across 30, however none did so at a strike price over 110. Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, and Rishad Hossain took 2 gates each.
In action, Bangladesh shed 2 very early gates, however a third-wicket collaboration of 48 in between Najmul Hossain Shanto and Towhid Hridoy placed them in a comfy setting.
At 124-5 from 16.5 overs, Bangladesh required one more 21 runs in 19 distributions with 5 gates in hand. What complied with was a collapse of legendary percentages, as they shed 3 gates in the following 4 spheres to slide to 125-8 at the 17.3 over mark.
Shadley van Schalkwyk began the collapse for the hosts, as he disregarded Jaker Ali off the last sphere of the 17th over previously Ali Khan gotten rid of Shakib Al Hasan and Tanzim Hasan Sakib in the very first 3 spheres of the 18th over.
Saurabh Netravalkar after that castled Shoriful Islam on the 4th sphere of the 19th over with a harmful yorker– a shipment which the USA seamers tried and toenailed constantly in the fatality overs– leaving Bangladesh requiring one more 13 escape 8 spheres.
Ali Khan began the last over with 12 go to protect. Mustafizur ran a bye off the very first sphere to bring Rishad on strike, that drew a brief sphere for 4 to bring the formula to 7 off 4.
The following sphere, Ali bowled full outside off, to which Rishad pulled back to the off side and tried to scoop over great leg, just to border it behind to the wicketkeeper and hand USA a historical victory by 6 runs as the fielders rolled away in party.
USA WIN THE SERIES 2-0! WHAT A HISTORICAL MINUTE!
Stay tuned for the last suit of the series on May 25th!#USAvBAN pic.twitter.com/CuRACXwd21
— USA Cricket (@usacricket) May 23, 2024
Ali was granted the Player of the Match for his numbers of 3-25.
This is the very first series victory for USA against a Full Member nation. The closest they have actually come previously is a 1-1 draw against Ireland in December 2021.
The 3rd and last T20I of the series will certainly be used May 25, where Bangladesh will certainly seek to restore some satisfaction and obtain their bearings right prior to they start their T20 World Cup project.
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