Tigers-Proteas 2nd Twenty20 today

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Sports Reporter :Hosts Bangladesh will meet the touring South Africa (Proteas) in the Second Twenty20 International match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur today (Tuesday). State-owned television Channel BTV and private satellite Channel GTV will telecast the match live from 1.00 pm.Earlier, Bangladesh lost to South Africa by 52 runs in the first Twenty20 International match on Sunday.So, Bangladesh have to win the second Twenty20 match against their counterpart if they want to level the series. On the other hand, if South Africa win today’s match, they will have a clean sweep in the two-match Twenty20 International series. The pitch for the first game was slow and had inconsistent bounce. The surface for the Second T20 may have higher bounce and help batting a little more.Promising batsman Soumya Sarkar said, “We got success in bowling in the first match according to our game plan. But we could not bat properly. If we executed our game plan, the result would come in favour of us. However, we shall try to get success in today’s (Tuesday) match.”He said, “We discussed about our strategy yesterday (Monday) for next game. If everybody does his duty, then we can earn a good result.” Bowling Coach of South Africa Charl Langeveldt said, “We need to be pretty aggressive as per our game plan. Normally when we come to the sub-continent, we try and use our aggression. That’s why we use four fast bowlers.”He said, “It’s also about the follow-up ball and our guys executed that well too. We need to adapt.”Bangladesh (possible): Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (Wicket-keeper), Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Litton Das, Sohag Gazi/Jubair Hossain, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (Captain), Arafat Sunny and Mustafizur Rahman.South Africa (possible): Quinton de Kock (Wicketkeeper), AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis (Captain), JP Duminy, David Miller, Rilee Rossouw, David Wiese, Wayne Parnell, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada and Aaron Phangiso.

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