CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) \u2014 Matt Renshaw hit a career-best 89 not out and Australia beat Bangladesh by seven runs in the second Twenty20 on Friday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.<\/p>\n
Renshaw steered Australia to 196-5, its highest T20 total against Bangladesh, before he contributed with 1-13 with the ball.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh, which lost the first game by four wickets, came close in its chase with 189-6. Aaron Hardie took 2-40 in four overs.<\/p>\n
After winning the toss, captain Mitchell Marsh (20) and Josh Inglis (11) gave Australia a solid start.<\/p>\n
Inglis was the first batter out, leg before wicket to left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed. Fast bowler Nahid Rana, playing in his second T20, dismissed Marsh to leave Australia 44-3 in the sixth over.<\/p>\n
Renshaw and Tim David put on 97 runs in 50 balls for the fourth wicket, setting up a big total. David hit two fours and four sixes in a 26 ball-45 before being baffled by Abdul Gaffar\u2019s slower ball.<\/p>\n
Renshaw, who smashed four fours and five sixes in his 52-ball innings, guided the lower order to close to 200.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was just understanding the way that I wanted to play, trusting that, and fortunately, I got the rewards today,\u201d Renshaw said. \u201cWe obviously got a good score, and they came out pretty well and hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bangladesh compiled 72-1 in six overs, its highest power-play score against Australia, with Tanzid Hasan leading the attack.<\/p>\n
Renshaw dismissed Tanzid (30 in 15) with a return catch to make the breakthrough.<\/p>\n
Saif Hassan scored 42 in 33 deliveries but Australia’s spinners stifled Bangladesh in the middle overs.<\/p>\n
The third and final T20 is on Sunday, also in Chattogram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) \u2014 Matt Renshaw hit a career-best 89 not out and Australia beat Bangladesh by seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[26813,357885,64,63,13047,359167,740,22256,121734,14477,146000,146002,145996,145998,88419,85,23037],"class_list":["post-747098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-aaron-hardie","tag-abdul-gaffar","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bangladesh","tag-bangladesh-australia-cricket-t20-renshaw","tag-cricket","tag-josh-inglis","tag-matt-renshaw","tag-mitchell-marsh","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-saif-hassan","tag-sports","tag-tim-david"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}