Won by playing the best innings of his career, Australia captured the T20 series
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Matt Renshaw awarded Player Of The Match: Matt Renshaw played the best innings of his career and gave Australia a thrilling win by 7 runs in the second T20 match. With this, Australia also won the T20 series from Bangladesh.
Australia won due to the brilliant batting of Matt Renshaw.
Chittagong (Bangladesh. On the basis of Matt Renshaw’s career-best unbeaten inning of 89 runs, Australia defeated Bangladesh by seven runs in the second T20 match on Friday and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. The third and last match of the series will be played here on Sunday. Renshaw took Australia to a score of 196 runs for five wickets, which is also its highest T20 score against Bangladesh. After this, while bowling, he also took one wicket for 13 runs.
Bangladesh team, which lost the first match by four wickets, came close to the target and lost, scoring 189 runs for six wickets. Aaron Hardy took two wickets for 40 runs in four overs. After winning the toss, Australian captain Mitchell Marsh (20 runs) along with Josh Inglis (11 runs) gave the team a strong start.
Australia won due to the brilliant batting of Matt Renshaw.
English was the first batsman to be out. Fast bowler Nahid Rana, playing in his second T20 match, dismissed Marsh, due to which Australia’s score became 44 runs for three wickets in the sixth over. Renshaw and Tim David added 97 runs in 50 balls for the fourth wicket. David scored 45 runs in 26 balls in which two fours and four sixes were hit. But he was out on the slow ball of Abdul Ghaffar.
Renshaw hit four fours and five sixes in his 52-ball innings. Along with the lower order batsmen, he took the team close to 200 runs. Bangladesh scored 72 runs for one wicket in six overs, which was its highest score in the powerplay against Australia. Tanjid Hasan (30 runs in 15 balls) made an aggressive start. But Renshaw gave the team its first success by taking a return catch from Tanjid. Saif Hasan scored 42 runs in 33 balls. But Australia’s spinners kept the run-rate under control in the middle overs.
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