{"id":34670,"date":"2026-06-21T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/australia-beats-bangladesh-by-7-runs-in-high-scoring-2nd-t20-to-win-series\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:37:23","slug":"australia-beats-bangladesh-by-7-runs-in-high-scoring-2nd-t20-to-win-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/australia-beats-bangladesh-by-7-runs-in-high-scoring-2nd-t20-to-win-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia beats Bangladesh by 7 runs in high-scoring 2nd T20 to win series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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<p>Renshaw steered Australia to 196-5, its highest T20 total against Bangladesh, before he contributed with 1-13 with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh, which <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bangladesh-australia-cricket-odi-045b9afd6590807652b14427f04d8dbd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lost the first game by four wickets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;lost the first game by four wickets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">lost the first game by four wickets<\/a>, came close in its chase with 189-6. Aaron Hardie took 2-40 in four overs.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the toss, captain Mitchell Marsh (20) and Josh Inglis (11) gave Australia a solid start.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Renshaw, who smashed four fours and five sixes in his 52-ball innings, guided the lower order to close to 200.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>Bangladesh compiled 72-1 in six overs, its highest power-play score against Australia, with Tanzid Hasan leading the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Renshaw dismissed Tanzid (30 in 15) with a return catch to make the breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Saif Hassan scored 42 in 33 deliveries but Australia&#8217;s spinners stifled Bangladesh in the middle overs.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final T20 is on Sunday, also in Chattogram.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP cricket: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) \u2014 Matt Renshaw hit a career-best 89 not out and Australia beat Bangladesh by seven runs in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/gW01xPCSLbPgUDGs8blDlA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/0260720af3592488b53c5b33db21eb86","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}