Nitish Kumar Reddy played the most attractive innings of his nascent career as India posted 221-9 in the second T20I against Bangladesh on Wednesday and emerged victorious by 86 runs for an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.  In response, Bangladesh scored 135-9 off their 20 overs.

Reddy (74 off 34 balls) and Rinku Singh (53 off 29) put up a crucial 108-run stand for the fourth wicket to pull India out of a precarious position. Put into bat, the Indian top-order was outfoxed by the pace trio of Tanzim Hasan, Mustafizur Rehman and Taskin Ahmed. They varied their pace to get the desired results. Bangladesh started the inning with some spin in the form of Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Sanju Samson punished the off-spinner with back-to-back boundaries to plunder 15 runs from the first over.