Shanto, Hridoy assist Bangladesh level series with agreeable win

Captain Najmul Hossain Shanto's half-century helped Bangladesh level the series against Sri Lanka as the hosts completed a comfortable win in the second T20I in Sylhet. The visitors faltered in the middle overs with the bat before Bangladesh's top four got all the runs. However, the game was not without debate. Soumya Sarkar's not-out choice during the pursuit left Sri Lanka seething, after the third umpire decided that there was an unmistakable hole among bat and ball, despite the fact that Ultra-edge showed a reasonable spike. Sri Lanka lose ordinary wickets At the point when Sri Lanka were placed into bat for the second game in succession, Kamindu Mendis and Kusal Mendis assumed responsibility for the Sri Lanka innings from the fourth over after Taskin Ahmed eliminated Avishka Fernando for a duck. The couple took Sri Lanka to 49 for 1 toward the finish of the powerplay. Be that as it may, following Kusal's excusal in the 10th over, Sri Lanka began losing wickets routinely. Kamindu was run out in the 10th over and Mustafizur Rahman eliminated Sadeera Samarawickrama in the thirteenth. Charith Asalanka strolled back the accompanying over, in the wake of hitting three sixes and a four in his 10-ball stay, bowled by Mahedi Hasan. Sri Lanka's accomplished couple of Angelo Mathews and Dasun Shanaka then consolidated for 50 years stand. They struck five fours and a six in this period and pushed the complete to 165. Sarkar, Litton bargain in fours Openers Sarkar and Litton Das then, at that point, started Bangladesh off in great shape, scoring 63 runs in the powerplay which was bound with a joined complete of nine fours. Sarkar endure the disputable third umpire choice toward the beginning of the fourth finished, when he was on 14. He then hit several fours in that finished, while Litton pounded the initial six in the 6th over. Sarkar was anyway not ready to underwrite a lot of on the additional life, confounding a draw off Matheesha Pathirana to Mathews at midwicket in the seventh over. Pathirana then got back to eliminate Litton, who was gotten at square leg in the 10th over for 36. Simple pursue for Bangladesh Shanto and Towhid Hridoy ensured there were no more flaws. The pair pivoted the strike while hitting somewhere around one limit in each finished. They went through the fifteenth and sixteenth overs without limits, however Shanto struck Shanaka for a four and six in the seventeenth over to bring the condition down to not as much as run-a-ball. Hridoy hit a six off the last chunk of the eighteenth over, and with two runs expected off the last two overs, Shanto crushed the primary wad of the nineteenth over for a six to finish his 50 years and thus likewise seal the success for Bangladesh.