Gwalior: Indian team (Indian team) has started the three-match T20 International series against Bangladesh in a great way under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav in T20 International. Team India managed to win the first match of this series played on Gwalior ground by 7 wickets. Bangladesh team was reduced to a score of 127 runs while batting first, after which the Indian team achieved this easy target in just 11.5 overs. With this victory, Team India also managed to do a big feat.
Team India won the match 49 balls earlier
Chasing the target of 128 runs in the first T20 match against Bangladesh, a brilliant batting performance was seen from the Indian team. Apart from captain Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya and Abhishek Sharma scored runs at a strike rate of 200 plus. Due to this, the Indian team achieved this target in just 71 balls. With this, Team India has succeeded in chasing a target of 100 or more runs in T20 International for the first time with 49 balls remaining. Earlier in the year 2016, in the match against Zimbabwe, Team India won the match with 41 balls remaining while chasing a target of 100 runs. Indian team’s victory in T20 International with most balls remaining (target of 100 plus runs)
49 balls – vs Bangladesh (year 2024, Gwalior, target 128 runs)
41 balls – vs Zimbabwe (year 2016, Harare, target 100 runs)
31 balls – vs Afghanistan (year 2010, Gros Islet, target 116 runs)
30 balls – vs Zimbabwe (year 2010, Harare, target 112 runs)
Hardik played the role of finisher
In the first match of the T20 series against Bangladesh played in Gwalior, Team India’s star all-rounder Hardik Pandya gave a great performance with both ball and bat. While Hardik bowled 4 overs giving 26 runs and taking 1 wicket, with the bat he played an unbeaten inning of 39 runs in just 16 balls with a strike rate of around 244 which included 5 fours and 2 sixes.