New Zealand 296 for 3 (Nicholls 95, Young 89, Mahmud 2-57) beat Bangladesh 291 (Sarkar 169, O’Rourke 3-47, Duffy 3-51) by seven wickets
Opening the batting on Wednesday, Bangladesh slipped to 80 for 4 within the seventeenth over, with Jacob Duffy having struck twice for New Zealand. Regular wickets had pressured Soumya to decelerate after a fast begin, throughout which he had moved to 26 off his first 23 deliveries, together with hitting six boundaries.
But Soumya then added 61 with Mehidy Hasan Miraz, within the course of attending to his third ODI century off 116 balls originally of the fortieth over, although he was dropped by Young when on 92. But from 102 off 119 balls at one stage, Soumya hit 67 from his subsequent 32 deliveries within the demise overs. That aggression featured 9 fours and two sixes – 13 of his different fours had all come earlier – earlier than Bangladesh misplaced three wickets to Will O’Rourke within the last over.
Nicholls arrived at No. 3, and mixed with Young so as to add 128 at virtually a run a ball. He managed solely 3 from his first 13 deliveries, whereas Young received to his eighth ODI fifty off 51 balls within the seventeenth over. But the pair maintained a constant tempo all through their stand, hardly ever seeming to be in a rush to hunt the entire down, as Nicholls’ first boundary got here solely off his seventeenth ball.
Young rode his luck twice – first on 76, when Towhid Hridoy could not seize a troublesome probability at additional cowl, after which on 83, when he used DRS to reverse a caught-down-the-leg-side determination – earlier than finally perishing for 89 within the thirty third over. By then, Nicholls had received to a fifty of his personal, which he couldn’t convert right into a century when he pulled Shoriful Isam to midwicket within the forty first over.
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