United States surprised Bangladesh at first appearance

The United States needs 9 runs to beat Bangladesh in the last over! Shakib Al Hasan might have realized that defeat was imminent. He was moving towards the boundary line with his head down. Mahmudullah Riyad came to the bowling. Corey Anderson hit a six off the first ball. The match is just around the corner. When the strike changed, the other batsman Harmeet Singh hit four at extra cover and gave Bangladesh a historic victory in the first appearance.

On Tuesday (May 21) at the Prairie View Cricket Complex in Houston, Bangladesh's innings stopped at just 153 runs for 6 wickets after losing the toss to bat. USA chased down to 5 wickets with 3 balls in hand.

The United States played only 25 T20 before entering the field against Bangladesh! A loss against a country that started playing after more than a century is sure to question Nazmul Hussain Shanto's ability. After lifeless batting Nirvish had to lose by a big margin.

Corey Anderson-Harmeet Singh's 28-ball 62-run partnership changed the fortunes of the match. Harmeet scored 33 off just 13 balls and Anderson scored 34 off 25 balls. This is a record partnership for the United States for the sixth wicket.

Despite losing the first wicket by 27 runs, USA counter-attacked in the second wicket pair. When Rishad Hossain broke the pair by sending Andreas Gaus back, Bangladesh returned to the relief camp. Gaus scored 23 runs. Mustafizur Rahman took three more wickets before the hundred and put the hosts under pressure. But Anderson-Harmeet took the match to themselves. Mostafiz took maximum 2 wickets for Bangladesh. 41 runs!

Earlier, after the failure of the top order batsmen, Bangladesh crossed the 150 mark in Tawheed Hriday's fifty. Tawheed Hridoy scored the maximum 58 runs from 47 balls. Fifty off 40 balls. His innings had 4 fours and 2 sixes. Zaker Ali was unbeaten on 5 balls and 9 runs with Tawheed.

Bangladesh's two openers Liton Das-Soumya Sarkar were shaky in front of an inexperienced bowling line-up. Liton gets two lives at the start. Still could not paint. His 14-ball 15-ball out broke his 27-ball 34-run partnership.

Soumya could only play 1 ball after Liton's return. He got out with that ball. 20 runs off 13 balls from his bat. Bangladesh collection in power play only 37 runs for 2 wickets!

After the departure of the two openers, captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto joined Tawheed. This batter could not do justice to his name. Departed playing 11 balls, only 3 runs. Shakib Al Hasan couldn't survive coming to the crease after Shanta's departure. The world's best all-rounder returned for just 6 runs while responding to Tawheed's call.

If Shanto-Saqib departs, the wheels of Bangladesh's run should be in motion. Tawheed continued to move forward with Mahmudullah Riyad. The duo added 67 runs off 47 balls for the fifth wicket partnership. The pair broke when Mahmudullah returned for 31 runs off 22 balls. Then Tawheed and Zaker came to finish the innings.

Steven Taylor took maximum 2 wickets for USA. Sourav-JC Singh took 1 wicket each.

United States is ten steps below Bangladesh in the ranking. But Bangladesh suffered a big shock by losing the match to them just before the World Cup.