Nitish and Rinku shine in India's victory, defeating Bangladesh by 86 runs and capturing the series 2-0

India won seventh consecutive at homeBatting first, India scored 221 runs on the scoreboard after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. The highest score of 74 (34) runs from the team came from the bat of Nitish Reddy. In this innings he hit 4 fours and 7 sixes. He scored a half-century in 27 balls. Rinku Singh played a half-century inning of 53(29) runs. In this innings he hit 5 fours and 3 sixes. He scored a half-century in 26 balls.

Nitish and Rinku made a century partnership of 108 (49) runs for the fourth wicket. Hardik Pandya played an inning of 32 runs in 19 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. Rinku and Hardik added 36(21) runs for the 5th wicket. Spinner Rishad Hussain took maximum 3 wickets for Bangladesh. Taskin Ahmed, Tanzeem Hasan Saqib and Mustafizur Rahman managed to kill 2-2 batsmen.

Bangladesh, chasing the target, could score only 135 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Mahmudullah scored the most runs for Bangladesh. He played an inning of 41 runs in 39 balls with the help of 3 sixes. Parvez Hussain Emon and Mehdi Hasan Miraz contributed 16(12), 16(16) runs respectively. Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets for India. Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Yadav and Ryan Parag took one wicket each.

Playing XI of Bangladesh: Parvez Hussain Emon, Liton Das (wk), Nazmul Hussain Shanto (captain), Tauheed Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Zekar Ali, Mehdi Hasan Miraj, Rishad Hussain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzeem Hasan Saqib, Mustafizur Rahman. Won the T20 International series. In the second match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat first.