GWALIOR: Mayank Yadav bowled with rattling tempo in a promising debut whereas thriller spinner Varun Chakaravarthy made a powerful comeback to arrange India’s dominating seven-wicket win over Bangladesh within the series-opening T20 right here on Sunday.
India, oozing with contemporary expertise, bundled out Bangladesh for a under par 127 earlier than the batters performed an array of audacious strokes to gun down the goal in 11.5 overs.
The begins with the ball was rookie Mayank and Varun whereas scorching cameos from Sanju Samson (29 off 19), skipper Suryakumar Yadav (29 off 14) and Hardik Pandya (39 not out off 16 ) ensured a breezy chase for the hosts.
As It Occurred
A full home on the newly constructed Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium witnessed top quality bowling from India and largely peculiar batting from their opponents.
All eyes had been on Mayank (1/21) ever since he marked his run up earlier than toss and the 22-year-old from Delhi didn’t disappoint in his first aggressive sport in additional than 5 months.
Having attracted world eyeballs for persistently bowling within the 150kmph vary through the IPL, Mayank was in a position to generate critical tempo in his opening spell of 2-1-3-1. His first over was a maiden.
Having suffered a aspect pressure shortly after a sensational IPL debut, there have been query marks over his health in the long run however he dispelled a few of these doubts on Sunday.
Mayank was in a position to hit 145.7 kmph solely in his second ball of the night earlier than hitting 148.7 kmph with the primary ball of his second over.
Veteran batter Mahmudullah was among the many batters who had been cautious of his further tempo and ended up changing into the pacer’s first worldwide wicket. The 38-year-old tried to improvise by charging down the wicket however ended up slicing a regulation catch to Washington Sundar at deep level.
Varun (3/31), introduced again into the workforce after practically three years, troubled the Bangladesh batters who didn’t learn him. Amongst them was middle-order batter Jaker Ali who had stumps his castled with a ball that turned again in.
Like Mayank, Varun too was introduced contained in the powerplay. The thriller spinner bounced again after conceding 15 runs in his opening over by dismissing Towhid Hridoy (12).
At 64 for 5 in 10 overs, Bangladesh’s innings was going nowhere and India had been in a position to press on the benefit thereafter.
Mayank returned to bowl the thirteenth which went for 15 as Bangladesh batters used his further tempo to gather a six and 4 within the third man area. He ended his quota by bowling the nineteenth over which included a few yorkers.
Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh (3/14) had performed his half his within the powerplay by eradicating openers Litton Das and Parvez Hossain Emon earlier than selecting his third wicket to finish Bangladesh’s innings. Mehidy Hasan Miraz was the top-scorer for the guests with 35 not out off 32 balls.
India got here out to bat with uber aggressive intent with Abhishek Sharma (16 off 7) and Samson going laborious from the get go. Promoted to the highest of the order, Samson performed a number of pleasant pictures earlier than falling to off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz.
Decide up pictures off pacer Taskin Ahmed within the fifth over was the spotlight of Suryakumar’s innings. The end result was a foregone conclusion when India raced to 71 for 2 within the powerplay. Debutant Nitish Reddy (16 not out off 15) and Hardik bought the workforce residence in a canter. Hardik went ballistic within the twelfth over bowled by Taskin Ahmed to complete the sport in model.
A promote out crowd was in attendance as worldwide cricket returned to Gwalior after 14 years. The stadium constructed within the outskirts of town made its worldwide debut.
