Voorburg: Netherlands snatched a tense one-wicket victory over Bangladesh to tie the T20I series 1-1 against Bangladesh on Thursday at Sportpark Westvliet, Voorburg.
Ahsan Malik at no. 11 came to the wicket with Netherlands needing two for victory, after Abdur Razzak had removed Timm van der Gugten, who had just hit six, with the penultimate ball.
Earlier, Bangladesh succumbed despite winning the toss and choosing to bat, with Tamim Iqbal scoring his second successive T20 international fifty. Mahmudullah was one of the few batsmen to score fluently, adding 41 from 31 balls in a 62-run partnership with Tamim, but Ziaur Rahman was the only other Bangladeshi to reach double figures.
Brief scores
Bangladesh 128 (Tamim 50, van der Gugten 3-18)
Netherlands 131 for 9 (Swart 61, Razzak 2-23)
Result Netherlands won by one wicket