Bangladesh suffered a mishap in the first T20 of the three-match series against the United States. Nazmul Hossain Shanto's team lost by 5 wickets to a novice USA team.
Coming down to bat against the target of 154 runs given by Bangladesh, USA batted fearlessly from the start. However, the team lost captain and one of the team's best batsmen, Monak Patel, in an unfortunate run-out. Steven Taylor played a straight drive to Shariful Islam, but the ball hit the hands of Shariful and broke the stumps on the non-strike end. Being out at the crease, Monak (12) had to make his way to the dressing room.
However, Taylor continued to advance the United States with Andris Gaus, who dropped to three. With the efforts of these two, they scored 43 runs for 1 wicket in the power play. After the power play, when Rishad Gous (23) was picked up, the run rate of the USA decreased a little.
In the 12th over, the hosts went on the back foot with a pair of hits by Mustafiz. Mahmudullah's catch of Taylor (28), who was first in the dust, made him the master of Bangladesh's cutters. A ball later Aaron Jones was caught by Shanta at mid-off.
But then Harmit-Anderson magic show! They made a pair of 62 runs for the sixth wicket and gave the USA an incredible victory. Harmeet Singh played a cameo of 33 runs off 13 balls with 3 sixes and 2 fours. Corey Anderson started off slow and picked up the pace. Moved from back foot to front foot. An unbeaten innings of 33 runs with two huge sixes off 25 balls gave the hosts a win to remember.
Earlier, Bangladesh lost the toss at the Prairie View Complex in Texas and batted first, suffering from the failure of the top order. Liton Das (14) and Nazmul Hossain Shanto (3) missed another chance to return to form in Hela. Although the strike rate is good, Soumya could not increase the innings. Scored 20 runs off 13 balls before returning. Due to a misunderstanding, Shakib's day with the bat did not go well. He had to stop at 6 runs off 12 balls.
However, the failure of the big names in the batting order has once again recognized the young Tawhid Hriday. Mahmudullah scored 67 runs in the fifth wicket for Bangladesh. Hriday scored 58 runs off 47 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes before getting to dressing room on the last ball of the innings. Mahmudullah scored 31 runs off 22 balls. Bangladesh reached 153 runs in 20 overs with their efforts. But this run was not enough to win in the end.