diff --git a/torchtext/experimental/datasets/sst2.py b/torchtext/experimental/datasets/sst2.py
index 85b892eb69..8c678de865 100644
--- a/torchtext/experimental/datasets/sst2.py
+++ b/torchtext/experimental/datasets/sst2.py
@@ -33,10 +33,12 @@
 MD5 = "9f81648d4199384278b86e315dac217c"
 URL = "https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/glue/data/SST-2.zip"
 
+_PATH = "SST-2.zip"
+
 _EXTRACTED_FILES = {
-    "train": f"{os.sep}".join(["SST-2", "train.tsv"]),
-    "dev": f"{os.sep}".join(["SST-2", "dev.tsv"]),
-    "test": f"{os.sep}".join(["SST-2", "test.tsv"]),
+    "train": f"{os.sep}".join([_PATH, "SST-2", "train.tsv"]),
+    "dev": f"{os.sep}".join([_PATH, "SST-2", "dev.tsv"]),
+    "test": f"{os.sep}".join([_PATH, "SST-2", "test.tsv"]),
 }
 
 _EXTRACTED_FILES_MD5 = {
@@ -79,12 +81,17 @@ def get_datapipe(self):
             filepath_fn=lambda x: os.path.join(self.root, os.path.basename(x)),
         )
 
+        # do sanity check
+        check_cache_dp = cache_dp.check_hash(
+            {os.path.join(self.root, "SST-2.zip"): MD5}, "md5"
+        )
+
         # extract data from zip
-        extracted_files = cache_dp.read_from_zip()
+        extracted_files = check_cache_dp.read_from_zip().filter(
+            lambda x: self.split in x[0]
+        )
 
         # Parse CSV file and yield data samples
-        return (
-            extracted_files.filter(lambda x: self.split in x[0])
-            .parse_csv(skip_lines=1, delimiter="\t")
-            .map(lambda x: (x[0], x[1]))
+        return extracted_files.parse_csv(skip_lines=1, delimiter="\t").map(
+            lambda x: (x[0], x[1])
         )