India beat Ireland by 33 runs in the second T20I to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match T20I series. The hero of India’s win was Rinku Singh, who was instrumental in guiding the team to a score of 185 in the first innings of his international career. Rinku played an innings of 38 runs in 21 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 towering sixes. His small but important innings earned him the player of the match award. Rinku, who came to receive this award, looked emotional in the post presentation.
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Rinku Singh said, ‘I feel great. I was trying to do what I have done in IPL. I was very confident and tried to stay calm. I listen to the captain. I feel very good. I have been playing for 10 years. All my efforts have been successful. I am happy to get the man of the match award in my first game.
This is Rinku Singh’s second international cricket match, but he did not get a chance to bat in the first match, so this will be his first innings count as a batsman. Rinku became the 8th player from India to be named player of the match in the second match. Yes, this list includes names of veteran players like Suryakumar Yadav along with captain Rohit Sharma.
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In the debut match for India, 9 players won the player of the match award while in the second match 8 players became the player of the match. Let’s take a look at this list. On the other hand, Rinku Singh has become the 45th player from India to win this award in this format.
Players who won the first player of the match award for India in the youngest match
1 – Dinesh Karthik
1- Pragyan Ojha
1-Badrinath
1- Barinder Sara
1 – Akshar Patel
1 – Harshal Patel
1 – Ravi Bishnoi
1 – Navdeep Saini
1- Ishan Kishan
2 – Rohit Sharma
2- Yusuf Pathan
2- Amit Mishra
2- Vijay Shankar
2- Deepak Chahar
2- Suryakumar Yadav
2- Yashaswi Jaiswal
2 – Rinku Singh
3- Ashish Nehra
3-Kuldeep Yadav
4- Yuvraj Singh
4- Jaydev Undkat
5 – Kedar Jadhav
5- Shardul Thakur
5- Deepak Hooda
6- Zaheer Khan
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6- Yuzvendra Chahal
6- Krunal Pandya
6-Shubman Gill
8 – Irfan Pathan
8- Gautam Gambhir
8- Mohammad Siraj
12- Ravindra Jadeja
12- Virat Kohli
12 – Avesh Khan
12 – Arshdeep Singh
13 – Suresh Raina
13- Shikhar Dhawan
16- KL Rahul
18- Shreyas Iyer
22- Ravi Ashwin
23-Jasprit Bumrah
24 – Harbhajan Singh
24-Bhubaneswar
42- Hardik Pandya
43- Rishabh Pant
Talking about the match, after losing the toss and choosing to bat first, Team India scored 185 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Chasing this score, the host team could score only 152 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. Opener Andrew Balbirnie certainly played a brilliant innings of 72 runs, but he had no support from the other end.