Bangladesh taste 50-run defeat to India Bangladesh put a listless performance to taste a 50-run defeat to India in their ‘do or die’ clash in the Super eight phase of the T20 World Cup at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Saturday. The defeat, their successive second in this phase, ruined their hopes to play the semifinal for the first time in tournament’s history. India put up a mammoth 196-5 and the had Bangladesh held off to 146-8 on the back of some superb bowling.
The victory helped them made a giant stride towards the semifinal of yet another ICC tournament. Left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav was the wrecker-in-chief with 3-19 from four overs while fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah was as usual unplayable even in a good batting pitch as he scalped 2-13 from four overs. Pacer Arshdeep Sing returned figures of 2-30 and Hardik Pandya who blasted 27 ball-50 not out with the willow, finished with 1-32.
For Bangladesh, captain Najmul Hossain Shanto was the top-scorer with 40, hitting one four and three sixes from 32 balls. Opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim made 29 and Rishad Hossain clubbed an entertaining 10 ball-24. But Bangladesh went nowhere right from starting the chase as they were well below par as far as the asking run rate was concerned.
After lifting the side to a respectable total, Pandya broke through with the wicket of Liton Das (13) who was baffled by the slower delivery and chipped it straight to Suryakumar Yadav. Kuldeep strangled Bangladesh, varying his pace.
