Bangladesh beat England within the 2nd T20I sport in Dhaka (Twitter)
Mehidy Hasan Miraz bowled a career-best 4-12 to assist the hosts bowl out England for 117 earlier than he hit 20 off 16 balls as Bangladesh raced to 120-6 in 18.5 overs on the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka
Mehidy Hasan Miraz shone with ball and bat as minnows Bangladesh shocked world champions England to win the second Twenty20 worldwide by 4 wickets and seal the collection 2-0.
Mehidy bowled a career-best 4-12 to assist the hosts bowl out England for 117 earlier than he hit 20 off 16 balls as Bangladesh raced to 120-6 in 18.5 overs on the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.
The defeat, which adopted a six-wicket loss within the first T20, was a wake-up name for England’s white ball unit earlier than the 50-over World Cup on equally difficult low-bounce Indian pitches later this 12 months.
Najmul Hossain top-scored with 46 not out for Bangladesh, who’ve now received a minimum of one collection in a single format in opposition to all Test-playing nations.
Sent into bat first, England had been hardly ever within the contest after dropping their approach in the midst of the innings as their batsmen struggled to deal with a low and sluggish wicket in Mirpur.
Shakib Al Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud and Mustafizur Rahman every complemented Mehidy with a wicket apiece.
Ben Duckett top-scored with 28 whereas Phil Salt made 25 off 19 balls.
Taskin dismissed opener Dawid Malan for 5 however Salt and Moeen Ali confirmed constructive intent to placed on 34 runs for the second wicket.
The guests then misplaced Salt, skipper Jos Buttler (4) and Ali (15) in consecutive overs to wreck their prospect of placing in a giant whole.
Mehidy then struck twice in a single over to dismiss Sam Curran (12) and Chris Woakes (0) to disclaim England a late restoration.
Bangladesh of their reply misplaced each their openers Liton Das (9) and Rony Talukdar (9) cheaply however younger Towhid Hridoy made 17 to regular the innings.
Najmul and Mehidy put Bangladesh in cost with a 41-run stand. England sniffed an opportunity with a number of late wickets as Jofra Archer wracked havoc to complete with 3-13.
However, Najmul thwarted the visiting facet along with his unbeaten 47-ball innings that includes three boundaries.
Taskin accomplished the win with consecutive fours off Chris Jordan within the nineteenth over.
“It was a unique sport of T20 cricket, thrilling as properly however credit score to Bangladesh,” cricket website CricBuzz quoted Buttler as saying after the game.
“{It) was a tough wicket to start on and Duckett was doing well, we needed someone to stay with him,” he stated.
“I believed it was an excellent bowling efficiency to defend a low whole. We bowled with out luck as properly however actually pleased with everybody’s effort,” Buttler added.
Bangladesh skipper Shakib called it “a very good team effort”.
“They had an excellent begin, however we stored our nerve,” he said
“In a tricky game like this it was important to keep our nerve,” he added.
The third and last match of the collection will likely be held on the similar floor on Tuesday.
England received the previous three-match one-day worldwide collection 2-1.
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