Tuesday’s historic one-off T20I in Sano saw India eke out a narrow two-run win against Japan in a rain-truncated match where Indian batters struggled against the spin and extra bounce of the Sano International Cricket Stadium to put up 32 for 4 in 5 overs, but the bowlers stepped up to restrict Japan to 30 for 3 led by Washington Sundar’s bowling figures of 2 for 13, while in India’s innings, captain Shreyas Iyer scored a team-high 16 runs off 12 deliveries with a boundary and Sanju Samson chipped in with 9 runs from 7 balls including one four, as Charlie Hara-Hinze picked up 2 wickets giving away 17 runs in 2 overs to dismiss Abhishek Sharma and Shreyas Iyer.
