7 months of current year 2022 are going to end today. Bangladesh has played 7 T20 matches in these 7 months.
The last win was against Afghanistan in Mirpur last March. Then today the youth T20 team got their second win of the year in this format against Zimbabwe. Tigers won the second match of the series today by 7 wickets and 15 balls in hand. After Mosaddek Hossain’s devastating bowling, Liton Kumar Das led the win with the bat. With this victory, the series is currently tied at 1-1. The series will be decided in the third match on August 2.
Batting with a target of 136 runs, the two Bangladeshi openers Liton Das and Munim Shahriar started well. Today Lytton was quite aggressive. And Munim is shaky from the start. Munim, who scored only 4 runs in the first match, got out for 7 runs today. The team’s 37 runs Richard Ngaravar bowled while playing a cross shot in the slower. Liton Das was accompanied by Enamul Haque Vijay. The duo’s second wicket came in a 27-ball 41-run partnership. To which the bulk of the contribution is from Lytton. Lytton picked up his 6th career fifty off 30 balls. Just when it looked like Lytton would finish the match, Sean Williamson went LBW. After being out like this, Liton himself stood stunned for a while. His innings ended with 56 runs off 33 balls with 6 fours and 2 sixes. Then the score of the team is 78.After that, Enamul Haque won the team’s 81 runs by scoring only 16 runs. He ate 15 balls. Sikandar was captured by the king in the hands of Masakadja. After that, Afif and Shanto were batting very slowly. There was no rush as the target was small. Bangladesh scored a hundred in 13.1 overs. Bangladesh reached the port of victory with 7 wickets and 15 balls remaining in the unbroken 48-ball 55* run pair of these two. Afif 30* from 28 balls with 1 four and 1 six and Nazmul Hossain Shanto left the field unbeaten with 19* from 21 balls.
Earlier in the second T20 of the series, after winning the toss and batting, Zimbabwe scored 135 runs for 8 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. Part-timer Mosaddek Hossain Saikat caught Regis Chakava (0) in the gloves of captain Nurul Hasan Sohan on the first ball of the innings! Wesley Madhavreke (4) returned with the last ball of the same over. Zimbabwe captain Craig Irvine (1) became his third victim in the return over. Zimbabwe lost 3 wickets for 6 runs. Mossadegh’s devastation was not over yet. In the 5th over of the innings, he cut and bowled Sean Williams (1). Mosaddek then took the first five wickets of his career by sending back Milton Simba (3).Sikander Raja and Ryan Barle, the heroes of the previous match, pulled the team back after losing 5 wickets for 31 runs. In the 6th wicket, these two made a great partnership of 80 runs off 65 balls. Sikandar Raja picked up his fifth and second consecutive fifty in 44 balls. The pair ended when Ryan Burl was bowled for 32 off Hasan Mahmood. Mustafizur Rahman returned Raja who scored 62 runs off 53 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes. Mosaddek’s bowling figures today – 4 overs, 20 runs, 5 wickets. 1 has been taken by Mustafiz and Hasan Mahmud.
