Dominant India takes a 2-0 lead
Radha Yadav’s splendid show helped bundle out Bangladesh for a paltry total; Hemalatha’s quick re unbeaten 41 takes the visitor over the line
Radha Yadav and D. Hemalatha sizzled produced an allround show as a dominant India beat Bangladesh by 19 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method in a rain-marred second women's T20 International here on Tuesday.
Led by left-arm spinner Radha's splendid show, Indian bowlers bundled out Bangladesh for 119 after the hosts opted to bat rst.
Radha nished with excellent gures of 3/19, while there were two wickets apiece for Deepti Sharma (2/14) and Shreyanka Patil (2/24).
For Bangladesh, opener Murshida Khatun topscored with 46 o 49 balls.
Chasing a modest total, India lost an early wicket as Shafali Verma (0) was caught down the leg side after she tried to ick it through ne leg. Hemalatha, however, blazed away to a 24-ball 41 as India raced to 47 for one in 5.2 overs, when the heaven opened up for the second time during the match. Hemalatha smashed ve fours and two sixes in her unbeaten knock.
The par score was 28 and the Indian team was ahead by 19 runs, and with the surface rendered unplayable by the heavy rain,
Hemalatha smashed a 24-ball 41.
the visitors were declared winners.
India thus took a 2-0 lead in the ve-match series.
Earlier, Dilara Akter got the Bangladesh innings underway when she pulled Renuka Singh over midwicket for a four in only the second ball of the match.
Akter got into a good position and whipped o her pads a swinging Renuka delivery over backward square leg for a boundary.
An 11-run rst over was followed by the wicket of Akter.
One-down bat Sobhana Mostary opened her account with a boundary as she drove a Renuka delivery past backward point.
O-spinner Shreyanka Patil struck in her very rst over, having Mostary (19 o 15 balls) trapped in front of the wicket after a promising start by the batter.
Brought into the attack for the rst time in the eighth over, left-arm spinner Radha started on a bright note before removing Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana and Fahima Khatun o successive balls.
Radha, however, could not complete a hat-trick as Sultana Khatun struck her for a boundary.
The scores:
Bangladesh 119 in 20 overs (Murshida Khatun 46, Radha Yadav 3/19) lost to India 41 for one in 5.2 overs (D. Hemalatha 41 n.o.).