Nidahas Trophy 2018, Bangladesh vs India, 2nd T20I – Statistical Highlights

India opened their account in the points table following a convincing win against Bangladesh in the 2nd game of the Nidahas Trophy. Bowlers set up the game for the team after Rohit Sharma elected to bowl first retaining their previous game’s XI. The Bangladesh batsmen failed to get going and ended up with only 139/8 on the board. Despite losing a couple of early wickets, India chased down the target in 18.4 overs as Shikhar Dhawan continued his form with a fifty.

All the stats and numbers that were recorded during a dominant win for India:

1 – Shikhar Dhawan scored two fifties in two consecutive T20Is for the first time in his career. The 55-run knock in this game is his 3rd fifty in five innings in 2018. This was also his 4th fifty in eight innings of the six fifties he scored in this format.

4 – India won all the four T20Is in which they chased in Sri Lanka. India’s win-loss record while batting first in the T20I games in Sri Lanka is 4-2.

5 – Mustafizur Rahman now dismissed Rohit Sharma on five occasions in International cricket. The Bangladesh left-arm pacer claimed Rohit’s wicket three times in his debut ODI series and once in the WT20 2016 game.

5 – India won five International matches (3 ODIs and 2 T20Is) while chasing with Dinesh Karthik in the playing XI since his comeback to Indian team last year. All the five chases included an unbeaten inning of Karthik.

6 – India defeated Bangladesh in all the six T20I matches they played. This was the first time both the teams faced in a T20I played in Sri Lanka.

49 – This was Bangladesh’s 49th defeat in the T20I format which are the joint most for any team. Bangladesh played 72 T20Is so far by winning in 21 while two other ended in a washout. New Zealand and Sri Lanka are the other two teams to lose as many as 49 T20Is.

50 – Number of sixes in the T20I format for Suresh Raina. He became the 3rd Indian after Yuvraj Singh (74) and Rohit Sharma (69) to hit 50 and more sixes in T20I cricket.

2012 – Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant and Suresh Raina batted in the top four for India in this game. This was the first instance in more than five years that three left-handers batted in India’s top four in an International inning. The last such instance was in 2012 in a T20I played at the RPS in Colombo against Australia.