India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Ruthless IND eye series win, BAN hoping to stage stunning upset

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Bangladesh’s powerplay has gone almost exactly the way it went for India. It took an extraordinary stand for India to get out of that hole. Now the visitors will have to do the same. Both Towhid Hridoy and Mehidy Hasan Miraz are on a run each.

Abhishek Sharma now bowling the 7th over

Bangladesh 43/3 in 6 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Right on the money from Varun Chakravarthy to start off the last over of the powerplay and Bangladesh, like India, have now lost three wickets in it. Litton for a big ugly heave leg side but the ball didn’t rise as much as he expected it to. It was quick as wel

Litton b Varun 14 (11)

Bangladesh 42/3 in 5.1 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Shanto cramped for space but tries to go for a biggy anyhow. Sends it straight to long on where Hardik Pandya gobbles up the easy catch.

Shanto c Pandya b Washington Sundar 11 (7)

Bangladesh 40/3 in 4.3 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Reddy gives Litton some width last ball of the fourth over and Litton smashes it over long on for a six. How Bangladesh need him to fire if they are to get anywhere close to India’s score. Litton on 12 off seven, Shanto at the other end on 10 off five.

Bangladesh 38/1 in 4 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Oh Emon chops on and Arshdeep sends him on with some eyeball treatment.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Arshdeep greeted with a four first ball, Emon slaps it with the swing away from him and clears cover. Arshdeep beats Emon with an absolute jaffa of a fourth ball. Then Emon smashes the next back over the bowler for a four and then the last is sent through mid on for another four. Nitish Kumar Reddy to bowl the second over now

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: The players are back. Arshdeep Singh bowls the first over for India. Parvez Hossain Emon facing up with Litton Das at the other end. To say that Bangladesh have a mountain to climb is an understatement.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: As many as three wickets in that over and one six. Washington Sundar was left stranded at none off none at the non-striker’s end while tail-enders Varun Chakravarthy and Arshdeep Singh tried to smash sixes. The latter was successful once, but one wonders just how many more runs Sundar could’ve got for India had Chakravarthy looked to give him a strike instead of going for biggies. Nonetheless, it was another big-hitting exhibition from India, who clearly have now completely embraced the “go big or go broke” philosophy. Bangladesh did well in the beginning but gave Reddy too many lives and Rinku too many freebies to undo all that good work.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Riyan Parag with two sixes off the fourth and fifth balls, the second of which just about cleared long-off. He did exactly what is needed of him, some big shots and quick runs. 18 runs and a wicket in that over, the last from Tanzim Shakib.

Parag c Mahmudullah b Tanzim Hasan Sakib 15 (6)

India 213/6 in 19 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Such is the pace at which this innings has gone that this over looks like a quiet one despite 10 runs coming in it. Pandya welcomes back Mustafizur for his final over with a six back over the bowler’s head. Four more singles in that over, Pandya is on 27 off 16, Riyan Parag at the other end on two off two.

India 195/5 in 18 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: A brilliant 17th over from Taskin and he gets the wicket to show at the end of it. Quick bouncer outside off after two slow balls, Rinku pulls it straight to that sweeper on leg side.

Rinku Singh c Jaker Ali b Taskin Ahmed 53 (29)

India 185/5 in 17 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Rinku Singh has raced to 53 in 26 balls. He first goes behind square and clears short fine leg for a four. Taskin goes full and wide fifth ball, Rinku sends it over mid-off who was puzzlingly brought up just before that ball for another four. Then he gets a leading edge on a pull and that goes behind for a six.

India 182/4 in 16 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Mustafizur returns for the 14th over, Rinku off strike first ball. The Fizz then bowls that cutter of his third ball and that does it for Reddy. Goes for a big shot but gets a thick edge to extra cover. An extraordinary innings comes to an end.

Nitish Kumar Reddy c Mehidy Hasan Miraz b Mustafizur Rahman 74 (34)

India 149/4 in 13.3 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: He just scored his maiden international fifty but we can already start talking about a potential century now. Miraz returns for the 13th over and Reddy takes him on a tour around Delhi. Rinku takes a single off the first ball. Miraz with a proper long hop to Reddy and he gobbles up that gift, sends it over wide long on for a six. Then a full and straight delivery that Reddy drills down the ground. Two runs off the next ball and then Reddy smashes a flat six over Miraz’s head fifth ball. Miraz then bowls a wide down the leg side and then Reddy smashes that extra ball over midwicket for another six.

India 148/3 in 13 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Reddy lofts the fourth ball of the 12th by Taskin over mid-off for a four. Takes a single next ball and that takes him to fifty in just 27 balls. Rinku takes a single as well and he moves to 33 in 18.

India 122/3 in 12 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Well this is turning into a carnage, the tables have been turned on Bangladesh. Reddy was dropped by Litton while he was on five, Mahmudullah bowled a no ball to him while he was on 13 and now he is making them pay. The Fizz returns for the 11th over, two runs off the first three balls and then Reddy sends the fourth elegantly over long-on for a six. Single next ball and then Rinku plays a late cut to send the last ball behind square for a four. Reddy on 44 off 23, Rinku on 31 off 16.

India 114/3 in 11 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Oh well Reddy has chosen violence in this second life he got after that LBW appeal. Hossain returns for the 10th, Rinku incredibly goes back to a length delivery first up and powers past deep cover for a four. A leg bye next ball and then Rishad goes too full and wide. Reddy sends it over long-off. The next ball is slog-swept over long on. A single next ball and then Rinku sees Hossain going short well before the bowler sends the the ball in, pulls that into the crowd for the third six. He is on 26 off 14, Reddy on 36 off 19.

India 101/3 in 10 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Mahmudullah bowls the ninth over and it turns out to be a long one. Rinku takes a single first ball and the second is wide outside off. Two more runs and then Mahmudullah oversteps. Reddy makes the most of the free hit by smashing the fourth ball over long on for a six. A big appeal for LBW turned down next ball and Bangladesh review that. It is umpire’s call on impact, was a very close one. Reddy then hits a four over deep cover.

India 77/3 in 9 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Rishad Hossain introduced in the eighth over, singles off the first four balls includng a leg bye and then Rinku slog sweeps the fifth ball into the stands. Single off the last ball and he is on 14 off nine, Reddy on 12 off 11.

India 62/3 in 8 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: This is a very good start for Bangladesh but they can’t get too far ahead of themselves. Rinku Singh is in the middle now with Nitish Reddy. Both are players who are capable of building highly destructive innings and India still have Hardik Pandya to come. Rinku has opened his account by hitting a four off the fifth ball of that over from the Fizz. He is on four off three, Reddy on seven off five.

India 45/3 in 6 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Well SKY had got four off the previous ball in Mustafizur’s first over of the match, the last of the powerplay, thanks to a misfield from Shanto. The Indian captain then chips the next ball to mid-off. Huge scalp for Bangladesh.

Suryakumar c Shanto b Mustafizur 8 (10)

India 41/3 in 5.3 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Reddy with a powerful shot off the fourth ball to send it over cover for four. He is then dropped next ball by Liton Das, which would be a disappointment for Bangladesh as they have done a good job of restricting the Indians thus far. Then Litton does a very good job of stopping the ball from going for four byes as Tanzim fires the last ball at 145kph, a full outswinger that pitches beside offstump and shoots up.

India 36/2 in 5 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Suryakumar Yadav shows that he is not going to hold back by driving the first ball of the fourth over in the air. Doesn’t connect but gets it over the infield for two runs. Two more runs off the next four balls and then SKY smashes the last ball back down the ground. Reddy turns around to make it to his own crease to avoid a possible run out, ends up taking the ball on his back. He gets some attention but seems fine. Reddy on none after facing one ball, SKY on three off five.

India 29/2 in 4 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Abhishek is cleaned up and India have lost both their openers in the first three overs. This was a quick one from Tanzim Shakib last ball of the third, Abhishek tries to slog it over midwicket, gets a faint inside edge and the off stump goes on a looong cartwheel.

Abhishek Sharma b Tanzim Hasan Sakib 15 (11)

India 25/2 in 3 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Oh Samson has holed out and so it is nothing more than a good start for him today.

Samson c Najmul Hossain Shanto b Taskin Ahmed 10 (7)

India 17/1 in 2 overs

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Samson is all class as he sends the second ball of the over between cover and cover-point. Then punches the third off the backfoot between mid-off and extra cover. Three runs off the next two balls and then Abhishek clobbers the last ball through extra cover for four.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma have opened the batting for India. Miraz is opening the bowling for Bangladesh.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Shanto says that Shoriful Islam isn’t playing today and Tanzim Shakib takes his place.

Bangladesh: Parvez Hossain Emon, Litton Das(w), Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: No surprises at all there.

India: Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Nitish Reddy, Hardik Pandya, Riyan Parag, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Mayank Yadav

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Bangladesh have won the toss and choose to bowl first

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: As expected, it is going to be a “nightmare” for the bowlers, says Abhinav Mukund. 55 metres on the off side, 63 from the leg side, fine boundaries are short on one side, long on the other. Teams have chosen to bowl first at the toss but teams batting first have won in the last five games.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: A problem that India had to deal with for much of the second half of the 2010s was that none of their batters could bowl to save their careers. That no longer seems to be the case though. In the first T20I, India had as many as eight bowling options, which Suryakumar Yadav called a “happy headache”.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Mahmudullah retires as a colossus in Bangladesh’s T20 history. He will be the joint third-most capped T20I player, having played 139 matches thus far and two more taking him to 141. He is also Bangladesh’s second-highest run-scorer in the format, only behind Shakib Al Hasan. Mahmudullah has also played in the most defeats in this format, and earlier this year he became Bangladesh’s oldest player in T20Is.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Mahmudullah has announced that he will retire from T20Is after Bangladesh’s series against India. “I had a chat with my family. I spoke to the coach [Chandika Hathurusinghe], captain [Najmul Hossain Shanto], chief selector [Gazi Ashraf Hossain] and the board president [Faruque Ahmed] as well. I think it is the right time to move on from this format for me and the team. Especially with the World Cup coming up in less than two years. I will concentrate on the one-day game,” he said.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Former Bangladesh captain Tamil Iqbal said while doing commentary in the first T20I that they should open the batting with Mehidy Hasan Miraz. It will be interesting to see if they listen to him or stick to what they have at the moment.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: It would be unfair to ignore other batters while talking about India’s ruthlessness in the first T20I but Hardik Pandya probably symbolised the World Cup champions’ nonchalant dominance at the moment in the format, particularly when facing an underperforming side like Bangladesh. He ended the Indian chase in the 12th over with two fours and a six off three consecutive balls. He didn’t even bother looking at the ball after ramping Taskin Ahmed for the first of those fours, choosing to drop his bat almost as soon as he made contact and then keeping looking straight at the bowler with an almost bored expression.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Bangladesh have a real problem with strike rates, with none of their main batters going at above 140 in their T20I careers. In the first T20I, captain Najmul Hossain Shanto hung around while players fell at the other end. When he tried to accelarate, he perished as well. This meant that Shanto scored 27 runs in 25 balls with just two boundaries.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Arshdeep Singh summed up how bad this ground was for bowlers last year. “Punjab Kings didn’t have a match here in the IPL this season but seeing the scores at this ground I didn’t feel like seeing the wicket. We will come tomorrow and assess the conditions and make plans accordingly,” he told reporters.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: Abhishek Sharma has a strike-rate of 217 and an average of 59 across the five T20 games he’s played at this venue. In the sole match that the Sunrisers Hyderabad played here, Abhishek went berzerk, smashing a whopping 46 runs in just 12 balls at a scarcely believable average of 383.33. He put up an opening stand of 131 in, wait for it, 6.2 OVERS(!!!!!) with Travis Head, who scored 89 in 32.

India vs Bangladesh LIVE Score 2nd T20I: This venue was a nightmare for bowlers last year in the IPL. Each of the five games that were played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium last year saw a first innings score in excess of 200.