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New Zealand batter Will Young believes it was quite lucky for them to face a sixth bowler during the death overs in their 44-run against Bangladesh.

New Zealand lost two wickets in the game's opening over when seamer Shoriful Islam had Rachin Ravindra and Henry Nicholls both caught without scoring.

The Kiwis made a brilliant comeback with a 171-run stand for the third wicket between Young, who hit 105 off 84 balls, and captain Tom Latham, who finished with 92 runs.

Young consider himself lucky that Bangladesh used the part-time bowler Soumya Sarker during the death overs as the latter returned with an expensive figure conceding 61 runs in his six overs.

“Well, they bowled really well at the start. I think they bowled to get the two breakthroughs early is key and they bet a lot and was getting the ball to swing. I suppose at times it can be tough for touring teams to find the right length in New Zealand conditions and then a bit tough when you come back out and there's ten overs to go and the main bowlers have used up a lot of their overs,”

“I think we were just quite lucky in the fact that their 6th bowler, as it were, had to get six overs out of that option later in the innings, which can be tough in New Zealand, the boundaries, rather, are quite small and if you've got set batsmen, it can be quite hard to defend. So, yeah, as I say, it worked for us today," he added.