-Vinay Kumar
Today, on Wednesday, November 2, in the ICC T20 World Cup, 2022, the match between India and Bangladesh (India vs Bangladesh) took place. Batting first, India scored 185 runs in 20 overs and set Bangladesh a target of 186 runs to win.
In this match, opening batsman Liton Das and Shanti scored 66 runs in 7 overs without losing any wicket from the Bangladesh team, who came to the field to chase the target. But, then the rain disturbed. After which the match was stopped for some time due to rain and the match was reduced to 16 overs and Bangladesh got the target of 151 runs.
Liton Das completed his half-century in just 21 balls while batting with a bang. He scored a total of 60 runs in 27 balls and was run out. One special thing was that before the rain, Bangladesh’s score was 66 runs without any wicket in 7 overs. In such a situation, it should be said that Bangladesh made India’s teeth sour in the 6-over powerplay battle. He definitely defeated Team India in the battle of Powerplay.
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Talking about the openers of both the teams, the pair of Liton Das and Najmul Hossain Shanto proved to be twenty one in front of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul. The pair of KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma, who came to the field to bat first in this match, could only score 37 runs in 6 overs of the powerplay. In 6 overs, 60 runs were scored at an average of 10 runs per over and the battle of Power Play was at least captured.
Talking about the powerplay of India’s total 4 matches played so far, then in all the four matches, the performance of Team India has been very poor in the power-play. Talking about this latest World Cup, only UAE’s performance in the powerplay has been worse than Team India. Records show that Team India’s average speed of scoring runs in the power-play in this World Cup has been 5.54 per over. That is, Team India’s opener has been much weaker than the Bangladesh openers pair.
Talking about all the 4 matches played so far, against Pakistan (India vs Pakistan T20 World Cup, 2022) Team India scored 31 runs for 3 wickets in 6 overs of Powerplay, (India vs Netherlands T20 World Cup, 2022) 32 runs for 1 wicket against Netherlands, 33 runs for 2 wickets against South Africa (India vs South Africa T20 World Cup, 2022) and 37 runs for 1 wicket against Bangladesh (India vs Bangladesh T20 World Cup, 2022) . That is, the performance of Team India in the power-play of this latest World Cup has been very weak so far.
However, in this match, India defeated Bangladesh. India’s bowling attack wreaked havoc in the match that started after rain.