Nitish Reddy Breaks Rohit Sharma's Record, SKY Draws Level With Captain Pandya: All Major Records Broken During IND vs BAN 2nd T20I

India thrashed Bangladesh by 86 runs for a series-clinching win in the second T20I of the three-match series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday.

India thus registered the highest margin of a win by runs against Bangladesh in a T20I, surpassing the 50-run win in North Sound at the 2024 T20 World Cup.

It was India’s 20th win of the year 2024, which is the second-best after 28 that India won in 2022. With a win percentage of 95.23, it is India’s best-ever in a calendar year, in which the team has played a minimum of 12 T20Is.

Suryakumar Yadav drew level with Hardik Pandya with 10 wins as India captain.

India’s total of 221/9 from their 20 overs is also the highest total by the Men in Blue against Bangladesh in T20Is.

As for Individual records, seven Indian bowlers took at least a wicket in the game – which is the most ever in a T20I.

Nitish Kumar Reddy, who smashed 74 runs, broke Rohit Sharma’s record of hitting most sixes in an India-Bangladesh T20I match with 7 sixes.

India vs Bangladesh: 2nd T20I – HIGHLIGHTS

The tourists elected to field first and reduced India to 41-3 inside six overs before Reddy and Rinku counter-attacked in their century stand.

Reddy took on the attack with sixes and fours and reached his fifty in 27 balls.

Reddy hammered Mehidy Hasan Miraz for three sixes and a four before being caught out by him in the next over from Mustafizur Rahman.

Rinku kept up the attack as he smashed fast bowler Tanzim Hasan for two fours and a six to raise his fifty in 26 balls but soon got out to Taskin Ahmed.

Hardik Pandya made 32 off 19 balls before being dismissed by leg-spinner Rishad Hossain, who got two more wickets in the final over to end with three.

Bangladesh scored 14 in the first over but were never in the chase as they lost regular wickets to slip to 46-4 in 6.5 overs.

Spinners struck regular blows as Washington Sundar sent back skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto for 11 and Chakravarthy bowled Litton Das for 14 and the tourists could never recover despite Mahmudullah’s knock.

Reddy dismissed Mahmudullah and returned with bowling figures of 2-23 from his four overs.

(With inputs from Agencies)