Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium has a spectator capacity of 55 thousand. But today the gallery of this huge stadium in Hyderabad is not even half full. There is, of course, a reason why so many gallery seats remain empty. Yesterday was the 10th night of Durga Puja. Why would you come to the field on such a difficult day to watch the India-Bangladesh rules match?
However, India's game in India's field, spectators will come to the field. About 23,500 came yesterday. Those who came will remember the explosive batting they witnessed for a long time. Forgetting the atmosphere of Mahmudullah's farewell match, India batted first and scored 297 for 6, the second highest in T20I history. Sanju Samson scored a century, captain Suryakumar Yadav scored a fifty.
What has happened is not less. India set the record for highest powerplay score in T20I, scoring 82 runs for 1 wicket in 6 overs. Crossed 100 in 7.1 overs. 150 in just 10 overs. After 200 in 14 overs, 250 in 16.4 overs, the world record seemed only a matter of time. In the end, India stopped 3 runs short of 300.
India scored 221 runs for 9 wickets in the previous match in Delhi. In the first match in Gwalior, Bangladesh was bowled out by 127 runs in 11.5 overs. Even if he had batted earlier in the match, the run could have crossed 200 for sure. Today, India made even that 200 runs child's play. India could not break the record of 314 runs for 3 wickets made by Nepal against Mongolia in international T20 for a short time.
In the chase, Bangladesh also played their best batting in this series. Tawhid Hriday's career-high unbeaten 63 off 42 balls and Liton Das's innings of 42 off 25 balls helped Bangladesh get the highest score of the series. After a big loss of 133 runs in the Test, Bangladesh is also in trouble in the T20.
Sheikh Mehdi Hasan gave 7 runs in the first over of Powerplay. After that over, more than 10 runs have come in every over of the Powerplay, with a maximum of 19. Among them, Abhishek Sharma's wicket off Tanjim Hasan is the only success of Bangladesh's innings in that sense. Bangladesh did not take the rest of the wickets, India gave them away.
After Abhishek's dismissal, the bowlers came in, bowled, and Surya-Samson hit four sixes. The two together took the team's run past one hundred in just 7.1 overs. Sanju had already scored a fifty, that too in just 22 balls, the fastest fifty by any Indian against Bangladesh. The previous record was held by Rohit Sharma (23 balls). After a while, Surya hit Rohit with a 23-ball fifty.
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