Pakistan Beats Bangladesh comfortably by 8 wickets in the 2nd T20I

Bangladesh-108/7(20)

Pakistan- 109/2(18.1)

It was a comfortable win for Pakistan and have taken an unsurpassable lead in the 3-match T20I series. It was yet another commanding show from them and they have handed Bangladesh only their second series loss in T20Is at home since 2018.

Pakistan’s bowlers once again did the bulk of the job. They were accurate and effective in executing their plans and corrected the mistakes that they committed in the first T20I. The bowling at the death was fabulous as they choked Bangladesh and restricted them to a Low total. In pursuit, Pakistan sized up the conditions quite well, knew that it’s not going to be easy to play shots and decided to carefully shape the chase. The required rate was never demanding, so Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Rizwan had time to plan their innings and the duo smartly stitched a match-winning alliance of 85 runs. Babar Azam with the bat was the only disappointment for them in this game but given the class of Babar, it should not be an issue for Pakistan.

It was another game where Bangladesh will wonder ‘if only we had another 20-30 runs’. Their batters let them down once more and with a much smaller total than yesterday, Pakistan weren’t really under any pressure of the scoring rate.

As for Bangladesh, their age-old batting concerns continue and with this young group, it is expected to be honest. They will need to be patient with the blokes.