Sports Desk: In the T20 World Cup match against South Africa, Bangladesh suffered the record of losing by the biggest margin in their history in this format. Bangladesh suffered a humiliating defeat by 104 runs against the Proteas at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday (October 27). Earlier in 2008, Bangladesh lost by 102 runs against Pakistan.
South Africa’s Riley Russo scored 109 runs alone in this match. In the end, Bangladesh could not take the run of Rousseau. All the batsmen of the Tiger XI managed to score a total of 101 runs. Rather, Bangladesh was all out before the end of the innings 20 balls.
South Africa scored 205 runs for 5 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs after winning the toss at the Sydney Cricket Ground. For the team, Russo scored 109 runs off 56 balls with 7 fours and 8 sixes. Also, 63 runs from 39 balls came from the bat of Quinton de Kock.
Chasing the target, Soumya Sarkar and Nazmul Shanto scored 17 runs in the first over. But the batsmen of Bangladesh stopped there. Protea pacer Anrich Norkye picked up 2 wickets in the third over of Bangladesh’s innings. The Tigers’ two openers Soumya (15 runs from 6 balls) and Shanta (9 runs) were brought back.
Shakib’s wicket was bowled again in the Powerplay. The Tiger skipper, however, was trapped by LB due to a wrong decision by the umpire. However, Shakib himself did not take a review (1 run). Afif Hossain also returned with a personal 1 run in the powerplay.
Mirage also led the way to the pavilion by scoring 11 runs. None of the batsmen could resist down the stretch. After Liton scored 34 runs at one end, he also returned with a catch while blowing up Shamsi. For South Africa Tabreiz Shamsi took 3 wickets for 20 runs.
