Bangladesh’s Tanvir Islam have a good time with the trophy and teammates after successful in opposition to England in the T20 sequence on March 14, 2023.
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Bangladesh whitewashed world champion England in their Twenty20 sequence by successful the third sport by 16 runs on March 14.
Opener Liton Das hit a career-best 73 and Najmul Hossain Shanto 47 not out for Bangladesh to place up 158-2 on a sluggish Mirpur pitch.
Dawid Malan and skipper Jos Buttler had England on monitor to keep away from being swept till their dismissals in consecutive deliveries. England slumped to 142-6.
Bangladesh earned its first T20 sweep of main opposition, whereas England was swept for under the third time after Australia in 2014 and South Africa in 2016.
Left-arm spinner Tanvir Islam, on debut, struck along with his third ball when he eliminated opener Phil Salt for a duck.
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Then Malan hit a 47-ball 53 with six fours and two sixes and placed on a 95-run stand with Buttler, who gave the impression to be in supreme contact with 40 off 31, together with 4 fours and a six.
Then Malan edged behind to present tempo bowler Mustrafizur Rahman his one centesimal wicket, and Mehidy Hasan ran Buttler out with a direct hit from level.
England collapsed from there, attempting to take care of the asking run price.
Fast bowler Taskin Ahmed took 2-26 to obtain man of the match and, when England wanted an unlikely 27 off the final over, Hasan Mahmud conceded simply two boundaries.
England additionally bowled fantastically on the dying, giving up solely 27 runs in 5 overs to Bangladesh, and just one 4.
But Bangladesh capitalised on dropped catches to construct a aggressive complete.
Opener Liton Das, who made simply 26 runs in the final 5 matches in opposition to England, returned to kind with a 57-ball 73 studded with 10 fours and one six.
Liton introduced up his ninth fifty off 41 balls, then was dropped on 51 by Ben Duckett.
Rony Talukdar was dropped by Rehan Admed off Jofra Archer however the injury was restricted.
Liton and Talukdar shared 55 in the opening stand earlier than Talukdar gave legspinner Adil Rashid a return catch, and Liton and Najmul Hossain Shanto mixed for 84 for the second wicket.
Liton was lastly fooled by a slower ball from Chris Jordan which carried to Salt.
Shanto noticed the innings out with an unbeaten 47 off 36.
