Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh in 2nd T 20 of series,2014

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 International Series in Bangladesh in 2014. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who will be crowned as the winner after the series as both are ranked at 3 and 8. The 2nd T 20 international match was to be played on Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, Bangladesh on 13^th Feb 2014.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd T 20 international match: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Farhad Reza, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Rubel Hossain, Shamsur Rahman, Nasir Hossain, S Rahman, Mohammad Mithun (wk), Anamul Haque, Arafat Sunny

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd T 20 international Match: Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Sachithra Senanayake, Seekkuge Prasanna, Kusal Perera

Bangladesh did not bat well and was able to post total of only 120 runs in 19.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of S Rahman who made 26 runs in 36 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 72 runs in 100 balls and A haque who made 24 runs in 17 balls with 2 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 141 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 121 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well and was able to chase the score of 121 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and won the game by 3 wickets in hand and top scores by K Sanga who made 37 runs in 38 balls with 1 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 3 wickets in hand and now this 3 Match T 20 international series stands at 2-0 in favor of Sri Lanka with 1 more game to play in this series.

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