Team India locked horns with Bangladesh in the first T20I of the three-match series at the Arjun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. After winning the toss, the visiting skipper Mahmudullah decided to bowl first citing a heavy dew in the latter half of the innings. India’s stand-in skipper, Rohit Sharma also would’ve preferred the same. India only managed to reach a total of 148/6 in their quota of 20 overs and the visitors chased it down with 7 wickets in hand and 3 balls to spare.
Bangladesh has outplayed India by seven wickets to go 1-0 up in the three-match T20I series. Mushfiqur Rahim helped the Tigers to register their maiden victory over the Men in Blue in the shortest format. Mahmdullah and Soumya Sarkar also supported Rahim well as the visiting team finally managed to defeat India.
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Deepak Chahar got the better of Liton Das in the first over of the innings. The debutant Mohammad Naim then attacked the bowlers as he added 46 runs with Soumya Sarkar for the second wicket. But, Yuzvendra Chahal dismissed Naim by building pressure with dot balls and then kept a check on the run-scoring as well. Even Mushfiqur Rahim couldn’t get him away and the required run-rate started going up. At the other end, Sarkar looked good only for a bit but he too was struggling to play big shots.
The required run-rate soared up to 12 even as Bangladesh had eight wickets in hand. Meanwhile, Rahim got lucky as India did not review a couple of lbw decisions and was also almost run-out at the start of the innings. Krunal Pandya dropped Rahim as well which turned out to be crucial and eventually the dropped catch hurt India.
The equation had come down 25 runs off 12 balls. But Khaleel gave away as many as 21 runs in the over by conceding four boundaries off the last four balls and the game was done and dusted there itself. Bangladesh sealed the game in the final over without much fuss to take a lead in the three-match series.
Earlier, Rohit in the very first over of the innings. However, KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan couldn’t up the ante and the hosts failed to score at a fair clip in the powerplay. The leggie Aminul Islam then struck in his first over to send back Rahul. Shreyas Iyer threw his hand at almost everything and looked impressive as well. But he played one shot too many off Aminul and was caught in the deep to leave India reeling at 70/3 in the 11th over.
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Meanwhile, Dhawan was not having a great time in the middle and Rishabh Pant walked in at a crunch situation but the duo struggled to up the scoring rate. Just when the left-hander was looking good to up the ante, he had to go back to the dressing room and soon Pant followed him as well. In the end, But Krunal Pandya and Washington Sundar added 28 runs only in 10 deliveries to propel the team to 148 runs for the loss of six wickets.
Brief Scores:
Bangladesh – 154/3 in 19.3 overs (M Rahim: 60*, S Sarkar: 39; Y Chahal: 1/24) defeated India – 148/6 in 20 overs (S Dhawan: 41; A Islam: 2./22, S Islam: 2/36) by 7 wickets and 3 balls to spare
Here is how Twitter reacted to India’s loss:
Many narratives in that matchwining knock from Mushfiqur Rahim. Amongst other things, it will help him to somewhat exorcise the ghost of 2016👏👏👏👏. Congrats @BCBtigers .
— Ian bishop (@irbishi) November 3, 2019
Shocking result for us tonight against d bangladesh team. It does happen in d game but there r so many areas to look into nd improve on. Today’s game was an eye opener 4 d people who all thinks experiences can be bought in the market 👍 #INDvBAN
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj) November 3, 2019
Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah ensures a big 1-0 lead over India, in the absence of Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal. #INDvBAN
— Mohammad Isam (@Isam84) November 3, 2019
From hiss-tory to history. Very well played, Bangladesh! #WhistlePodu 🦁💛
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) November 3, 2019
Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah may have exorcised the ghosts of Bengaluru with that performance. Sets it up for a cracking two games. #INDvBAN
— Shashank Kishore (@captainshanky) November 3, 2019
No Shakib, no Tamim, no Saifuddin and despite all the off-field issues, Bangladesh have done something no other Bangladesh team did in the past – beat India in a T20I. Tbh, they were the better side. #INDvBAN
— Sahil Jain (@sahildj96) November 3, 2019
First T20I win for Bangladesh without Shakib and Tamim in the playing XI. Lost the previous three without them!#IndvBan
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) November 3, 2019
