New Delhi, Oct 10: Indian bowlers pulled out a combined effort to restrict Bangladesh to 135/9 in the second of the three-match T20I series the at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday.Earlier Nitish Kumar Reddy’s 74 helped India to get 221/9 after Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto won the toss and put India into bat first on a slightly two-paced wicket which got better as evening went on.
India has won the series with a game remaining.
Nitish Reddy | PoTM, said, Feels great to represent India, feel so proud about this moment. Grateful for everything. I should give credit to captain and coach. They gave me the licence to play fearless cricket. I took my time initially, but after that no-ball everything went in my favour. It feels great to play for the Indian team. I want to continue in this same way. Want to keep repeating such good performances.
Suryakumar Yadav | India captain, said, I wanted that situation, wanted my batters (5,6,7) in that situation. Happy for both (Rinku and Nitish) of them. They batted exactly the way I wanted. You got to go out there and express. Just the jersey changes, rest remaining remains the same. I wanted to see what different bowlers can do in different situations. Can they give me the difficult overs. Sometimes Hardik won’t bowl, sometimes Washington Sundar won’t bowl. I wanted to see what the other guys had in store, really happy with it. It was his (Nitish) day, I thought let him enjoy and make it large.
Shanto | Bangladesh captain, said, I think we made the same mistakes (like the first game), not a good thing as a team. We need to improve. I think it was a good decision (to bowl). They batted well after the first 6-7 overs, we didn’t execute our plans after that. Need to take responsibilities as batsmen, we got to believe in ourselves. The way our bowlers bowled, they were impressive, but we couldn’t take wickets in the middle overs like I said.