T20 World Cup 2021: Twitter Reacts As Scotland Beat Bangladesh By 6 Runs

The second match of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 between Bangladesh National Cricket Team and Scotland National Cricket Team commenced at Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 1) on Sunday, October 17. Notably, Scotland won the game by defeating Bangladesh by 6 runs.

Meanwhile, Mahmudullah led-Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bowl first. The Bangladesh bowlers started pretty well and the seamer Mohammad Saifuddin dismissed the skipper of Scotland Kyle Coetzer??on a 7 ball duck.

After that George Munsey and Matthew Cross added 40 runs off 29 balls before Mahedi Hasan dismissed Matthew Cross in the 8th over of the match. Also, set batter Munsey was castled by Mahedi Hasan in the same over.

In the 12th over Scotland was down and out at 53 for 6. However, Chris Greaves batted brilliantly with Mark Watt and they added 51 runs from 34 deliveries. With the help of this amazing partnership, Scotland were able to post 140 runs on the board at the loss of 9 wickets.

Chasing the target the batters of the Bangladesh National Cricket Team were seen struggling a lot against the Scotland bowling unit. Soumya Sarkar lost his wicket in the 3rd ball of the second over against Josh Davey and Liton Das was dismissed in the 4th over by Bradley Wheal.

However, after that two of the highly experienced batters of the team, Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib Al Hasan provided the stability to the team by adding 47 runs.

Meanwhile, Chris Greaves helped Scotland in making a comeback by dismissing Shakib Al Hasan in the 12th over. Also, Mushfiqur Rahim was sent back to the pavilion by Chris Greaves in the 14th over.

Bangladesh were sent to the backfoot and they needed 31 runs from 10 balls to win the match. Batters smashed some good boundaries in the end but they were 6 runs short of the victory.

Here is how Twitterati reacted to Scotland defeating Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup 2021:

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The brave Scots ??? @<!---->T<!---->2<!---->0<!---->W<!---->o<!---->r<!---->l<!---->d<!---->C<!---->u<!---->p

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Take a bow, Scotland. That was one of the finest comeback win in #<!---->T<!---->2<!---->0<!---->W<!---->o<!---->r<!---->l<!---->d<!---->C<!---->u<!---->p history.

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Well played, Scotland ??????? #<!---->T<!---->2<!---->0<!---->W<!---->o<!---->r<!---->l<!---->d<!---->C<!---->u<!---->p p<!---->i<!---->c<!---->.<!---->t<!---->w<!---->i<!---->t<!---->t<!---->e<!---->r<!---->.<!---->c<!---->o<!---->m<!---->/<!---->e<!---->h<!---->7<!---->Y<!---->J<!---->p<!---->S<!---->2<!---->R<!---->l

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Scotland now win their first ever senior level ICC tournament match against a Test playing team.

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— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) O<!---->c<!---->t<!---->o<!---->b<!---->e<!---->r<!----> <!---->1<!---->7<!---->,<!----> <!---->2<!---->0<!---->2<!---->1

What a night for you, @<!---->C<!---->r<!---->i<!---->c<!---->k<!---->e<!---->t<!---->S<!---->c<!---->o<!---->t<!---->l<!---->a<!---->n<!---->d. The bowling and catching in the last few overs was top class. To come.back from where you were is so creditable. Look forward to watching more of you.

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Chris Greaves is the hero for Scotland, in his second T20I in his career and made the difference in the match.

45(28) when Scotland was 53 for 6 and picked the wickets of Shakib & Mushfiqur lead one of the finest comeback win. #<!---->T<!---->2<!---->0<!---->W<!---->o<!---->r<!---->l<!---->d<!---->C<!---->u<!---->p p<!---->i<!---->c<!---->.<!---->t<!---->w<!---->i<!---->t<!---->t<!---->e<!---->r<!---->.<!---->c<!---->o<!---->m<!---->/<!---->s<!---->j<!---->T<!---->K<!---->w<!---->R<!---->t<!---->V<!---->3<!---->m

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Bangladesh just pulled an *exact* RCB 2016 Final

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Scotland have defeated Bangladesh. What a victory for Scotland, from being 56/6 in batting to beating Bangladesh. Associate nations are making their mark pretty handsomely in T20 World Cup.

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) O<!---->c<!---->t<!---->o<!---->b<!---->e<!---->r<!----> <!---->1<!---->7<!---->,<!----> <!---->2<!---->0<!---->2<!---->1

After Scotland, the Bangladesh cricketers will have to counter Papon.

— Abhishek Mukherjee (@SachinAzharCT) (@ovshake42) O<!---->c<!---->t<!---->o<!---->b<!---->e<!---->r<!----> <!---->1<!---->7<!---->,<!----> <!---->2<!---->0<!---->2<!---->1

One of the best comeback stories in T20 World Cup history created by Scotland, they were 53 for 6 while batting first then beat Bangladesh by 6 runs – all thanks to all-round performance by Chris Greaves. #<!---->T<!---->2<!---->0<!---->W<!---->o<!---->r<!---->l<!---->d<!---->C<!---->u<!---->p

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Scotland won a thoroughly enjoyable cricket match.

Well played.

— Abhishek Mukherjee (@SachinAzharCT) (@ovshake42) O<!---->c<!---->t<!---->o<!---->b<!---->e<!---->r<!----> <!---->1<!---->7<!---->,<!----> <!---->2<!---->0<!---->2<!---->1

To be clear, this is not an upset. Scotland are a good T20I side. #<!---->B<!---->A<!---->N<!---->v<!---->S<!---->C<!---->O #<!---->T<!---->2<!---->0<!---->W<!---->o<!---->r<!---->l<!---->d<!---->C<!---->u<!---->p

— Rohit Sankar (@imRohit_SN) O<!---->c<!---->t<!---->o<!---->b<!---->e<!---->r<!----> <!---->1<!---->7<!---->,<!----> <!---->2<!---->0<!---->2<!---->1

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