<p>Spinners Deepti Sharma and <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/shafali-verma-took-pitch-out-of-the-equation-meg-lanning-23274924" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Shafali Verma</strong></a> held their nerves during death overs as India pulled off a nail-biting eight-run victory over Bangladesh to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match T20I series, here on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Off-spinner Sultana Khatun claimed a career-best 3/21 as the hosts grounded a star-studded India to a below-par 95 for 8, their lowest-ever total against Bangladesh in women&rsquo;s T20I.</p>
<p>However Bangladesh stumbled to 87 all-out in 20 overs as India took a series-clinching lead with an inconsequential third match set to be played on Thursday.</p>
<h2>Bangladesh collapse</h2>
<p>From a comfortable 86 for 5, Bangladesh lost their last five wickets for just one run in a space of eight deliveries in what seemed to be an inexplicable batting collapse.</p>
<p>The two young Indian spinners&mdash;offie Minnu Mani (2-9) and left-arm orthodox Anusha Bareddy (1-20 in 4 overs) made early inroads before the seasoned duo of Deepti (3-12) and Shafali (3-15) pulled off a heist with controlled bowling in the 19th and 20th over.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Shafali, in fact, got all her wickets in the final over in which she gave away only a solitary run when 10 were needed with four wickets intact.</p>
<p>Bangladesh&rsquo;s chase was steered by skipper Nigar Sultana (38 off 55 balls)&mdash;the only batter of their side to reach double-digits.<br />But the skipper failed to finish it off and was brilliantly stumped by Yastika Bhatia in the penultimate over bowled by Deepti that triggered the collapse. &ldquo;Bowlers did well to restrict India. I should have ended the game. I think we didn&rsquo;t get the start we want. Looking forward to the last game,&rdquo; the home team skipper said after the game.</p>
<h2>Skipper Kaur backs youth</h2>
<p>However credit should be given to skipper Harmanpreet as she has shown a lot of faith in giving full quota of overs to both Minnu and Anusha, who were equal to the task.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;In this series we have a couple of young bowlers who are going to take responsibility and bowl for us. Important for us to trust them. We are not going to hide them in the field,&rdquo; Harmanpreet said at the post-match presentation.</p>
<p><strong>Brief scores</strong><br />India 95-8 in 20 overs (S Verma 19; S Khatun 3-21, F Khatun 2-16) beat Bangladesh 87 in 20 overs (N Sultana 38; D Sharma 3-12, S Verma 3-15, M Mani 2-9) by 8 runs</p>
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Verma picks three wickets in final over with her off-spinners as India beat  Bangladesh by eight wickets in low-scoring tie to take unassailable 2-0 lead

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