India lost to Bangladesh by 5 runs in the second ODI despite captain Rohit Sharma’s unbeaten 51 off 28 balls. Chasing a target of 272 runs, India scored 260 runs for 9 wickets in 49.4 overs. Two sixes were needed off the last two balls for the win. Rohit hit a six on the 5th ball, but he could not do so on the last ball. With this, Bangladesh has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
This is India’s second consecutive series defeat in the ODI series in Bangladesh. Earlier in 2015, Bangladesh defeated India 2-1 in the ODI series.
how the wickets of Team India fell
- Virat Kohli: Bowled by Ibadat Hussain.
- Shikhar Dhawan: Rahman caught by Mehdi Hasan Miraj.
- Washington Sundar: Shakib caught by Liton Das.
- KL Rahul: Mehdi Hasan bowls a slower ball, Rahul misses the ball in front of the wicket and becomes LBW.
- Shreyas Iyer: Wanted to play a big shot off Mehdi Hasan. Caught by Afif at deep mid-wicket.
- Akshar Patel: Shakib was caught at the extra cover on the ball of Ibadat Hussain.
- Shardul Thakur: Caught by Mushfiqur Rahim behind the stumps on the ball of Shakib Al Hasan.
- Deepak Chahar: Nazmul Hussain was caught by Ibadat Hussain.
40 runs were needed in the last 3 overs
Rohit Sharma could not open in this match due to a thumb injury. He landed as the number 9 batsman. India needed 40 runs in the last three overs of the game. Mohammad Siraj was on strike in the 48th over and Rohit was on non-strike. Mustafizur Rahman did not allow Siraj to take even 1 run in this over.
Now in the last two overs, India needed 40 runs to win. Mahmudullah got 20 runs in this over. Rohit hit a six on the first and third ball of this over. Apart from this, he also took two doubles and a single. Three runs were found as wides.
India needed 20 runs off the last 6 balls.
- Rohit Dot played the first ball of Mustafizur. The ball did not hit his bat.
- Rohit played the second ball toward the deep third man for 4 runs.
- On the third ball too, Rohit hit a boundary toward the third man.
- Rohit tried to sweep the fourth ball but did not succeed. It was a dot ball.
- The Indian skipper sent the fifth ball toward the front site screen for 6 runs.
- The last ball was of yorker length. Rohit could not hit it properly and no run was scored. In this way, India lost the match by 5 runs.
Ibadat Hossain took 3 wickets for Bangladesh. Mehdi Hasan and Shakib Al Hasan got 2-2 wickets. While one wicket came in the part of Mustafizur Rahman.
After winning the toss and electing to bat, Bangladesh scored 271 runs for 7 wickets in 50 overs. Mehdi Hasan Miraj (100) was the top scorer from his side. While Mahmudullah scored 77 runs. Washington Sundar took the maximum 3 wickets from India. While Umran Malik and Mohammad Siraj got 2-2 successes.
3 reasons for the defeat…
- First: Poor bowling Indian bowlers bowled poorly in the last 31 overs. They failed to take wickets. Also looted a lot of runs. After the initial 19 overs, Bangladesh had lost 6 wickets for 69 runs. It seemed that the team would be reduced to 150 only. But, in the last 31 overs, our bowlers could only drop one wicket and spend 202 runs.
- Second: Openers were flop Team India’s openers Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli were flops. He could only score 13 runs in total. Virat Kohli scored 5 and Shikhar Dhawan scored 8 runs.
- Third: Siraj played a maiden over Team India had to score 40 runs in 18 balls and Rohit Sharma was playing in rhythm. In such a situation, Mohammad Siraj played the 48th over the maiden.