[Watch] Towhid Hridoy Rains Down Five Sixes In A Blistering 96*-Run Knock Vs SL

Towhid Hridoy made 96 unbeaten runs off 102 balls (X.com)

Bangladesh top-order batter Towhid Hridoy smeared 96 unbeaten runs for his country in the second ODI of their three-match series against Sri Lanka at Chattogram. The 23-year-old slogged three boundaries and five sixes in his innings to take Bangladesh to a competitive 286-7 off their 50 overs after they were put into bat first by visiting skipper Kusal Mendis.

The innings marked Hridoy’s career-best score, and only the seventh half-century of his year-old ODI career.

Towhid Hridoy blazes through SL with five sixes

Batting at number four and arriving to the crease at 75-2 in 12.2 overs following the dismissal of his well-set captain Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy started cautiously by sharing counterattacking partnerships with half-centurion Soumya Sarkar and senior man Mushfiqur Rahim.

Hridoy had just two boundaries to his name by the time he reached his half-century from 74 balls. Moreover, he was batting at 53* off 80 deliveries at one stage of the innings before he unleashed an extraordinary sequence of five barbarous sixes all over Chattogram’s Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.

Notably, he tonked two of those sixes off the final two deliveries of the innings to race to 96* off 102 balls, thus leading Bangladesh’s slog-overs insurgency to rise to a competitive 286-7.

Apart from Towhid Hridoy, opening batsman Soumya Sarkar also listed a fluent half-century while captain Najmul Hossain Shanto scored a near run-a-ball 40.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim scored 25 crucial runs in the middle overs and fast bowler Taskin Ahmed struck a couple of big ones to slap a 10-ball 18* towards the end of the innings.

Interestingly, Hridoy had a verbal go at several Sri Lankan players during Bangladesh’s final T20I match of the series last week.