South Africa Beaten by Bangladesh in 2nd ODI of series,2015

South Africa was scheduled to play a 3 Match ONE DAY International Series in Bangladesh in 2015. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series. The 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 12th July, 2015. South Africa already won the 2 match T 20 series earlier and also leads the ODI series 1-0 with 2 more games to play.

South africa won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: Jean Paul Duminy, AB de Villiers, Wayne P, Rilee R, David Miller, Aaron Phangiso, Faf du Plessis (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), David Wiese, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada

And Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: M Mortaza (c), M Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Nasir H, S Gazi, S Rahman, S Sarkar, A Sunny, Liton Das, M Rahman

Bangladesh batted poorly and was able to post total of only 162 runs in 46 over’s and was bowled out and with top scores of South Africa Star batsman F D plesis who made 41 runs in 64 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 64 runs in 100 balls and Farhan B who made 36 runs in 44 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 82 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 163 runs in 50 over’s to win this match and to level this series of 3 One Day international Matches 1-1.

Bangladesh batted very well and was able to chase this total of 163 runs in 27.4 over’s at the loss of only 3 wickets and  top scored by Bangladesh star batsman S Sarkar who made unbeaten 88 runs in 79 balls with 13 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 111 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh won the match by 7 wickets and levels the series 1-1 with 1 more games to play.

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