'Dream win' in NZ remains intact for Bangladesh
Collected
|| CF DESK ||
Litton urges turnaround after another disappointing defeat
3 hrs ago
Hosts New Zealand have clean swept Bangladesh 3-0 as they beat the visitors by 164 runs in the third and final ODI at Wellington Friday. So Bangladesh still have to wait for a win in the kiwi's home as James Neesham and Matt Henry hammered Tamim's team batting lineup.
Back home, Bangladesh is celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence but Bangladesh couldn't take that as an inspiration to chase down a record target of 319 runs. Bangladesh has no history of scoring these many runs against the Blackcaps. All in all, the challenge of avoiding whitewash was daunting.
In the third over, captain Tamim Iqbal could not take charge. Henry returned him to the dressing room with just 1 run off 9 balls as his first victim. Tom Latham grabbed the catch behind the wicket.
After Tamim's departure, Soumya Sarkar failed again. Trent Bolt caught him in a fine leg while the left-hand batsman lifted the ball high. Before becoming Henry's second victim, he made 1 run off 6 balls.
Liton Das sent off to the pavilion with a great catch by Boult again, who was playing well, at that time visitors lost 3 wickets for 26 runs in 8 overs. Henry took his third wicket as Liton 21 runs with 3 boundaries.
Wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim and Mohammad Mithun have fought for a long time to cope with the initial push. Although it was not very fruitful.
After batting slowly for a long time, Mithun returned to the pavilion to hit a six on the leg side to Kyle Jamieson. When the right-handed batsman returned with 6 runs off 39 balls, their 22-run partnership was broken. As a result, Bangladesh lost 4 batsmen before 50.
New Zealand's Phillips out of IPL with injury
12 Apr 25
After Mithun's exit, Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur tried to resist. However, three batsmen returned to the dressing room between 5 runs in Neesham’s excellent bowling. Mushfiqur returned with 21 runs, while Mehidy Hasan Miraz returned for naught in the third ball of that over. Sheikh Mahedi walked towards the pavilion with 3 runs in the next over of Neesham.
However, Mahmudullah picked up a half-century on the day of the failure of the Bangladesh batsmen. He completed his half-century off 64 balls with four from Jamieson’s ball. Tail ender Taskin Ahmed gave him some company during this time. He made 9 runs from 24 balls. At one end, Mahmudullah only reduced the defeating gap by batting aggressively, but no one else could support him.
Mahmudullah was unbeaten on 76 off 73 balls. Neesham took 5 wickets and Henry took 4 wickets for New Zealand.
Eariler, after winning the toss Latham chose to bat first. Taskin gave the first strike for Bangladesh, Henry Nicholls (18) caught by Liton Das at gully, who was dropped by Mushfiqur before two balls. While new inclusion of the Tigers XI Rubel Hossain got danger man Martin Guptill for 26 runs.
The highest run-scorer against Bangladesh Ross Taylor, who was dropped by Mustafizur Rahman at midwicket but in the very next ball Rubel bagged his second wicket as Mushfiqur caught a simple catch behind the wicket. After injury Taylor made his come back to the team but got out for 7 runs with 1 four.
Last match’s centurion stand-in captain Tom Latham (18) caught out by a stunner from Mehidy Hasan Miraz at the point from Soumya Sarkar’s first ball of his spell. Soumya broke an important partnership of 63 runs from Devon Conway and Latham.
Despite losing 4 wickets, Conway did not leave the team in any kind of anxiety. With Mitchell, they made the bowlers of Bangladesh sweat as they took the team to over two hundred and also made a hundred runs partnership. The pair also took advantage of occasional bad fielding, run out misses and missed catches.
Conway and Mitchell both scored centuries. Conway had to stop for 126 runs. By then, the Kiwis' score was over 270. Mitchell started batting in the last over for 83 runs even though James Neesham (4) returned as the third victim of Rubel last over. Mitchell hit 3 consecutive boundaries in the first 3 balls of Mustafiz’s over, then in the last delivery of the innings, the 29 years old batsman has his first taste of an ODI ton. He was unbeaten for 100 runs off just 92 balls with 9 fours and 2 over boundaries.
Rubel got three wickets, while Mustafiz, Taskin and Soumya sent off 1 batsman each.
Brief score:
New Zealand 318/6 (Conway 126, Mitchell 100*, Rubel 3/70) beat Bangladesh 154/10 in 42.4 overs ( Mahmudullah 76, Neesham 5/27, Henry 4/27) by 164 runs
