Unchanged NZ bowl first in collection decider; Tanvir replaces Tanzim

Toss New Zealand choose to bowl vs Bangladesh

Litton Das didn’t get better to make the Bangladesh XI both, permitting Shamim Hossain to maintain his place and Rony Talukdar to carry on to the gloves. New Zealand went with the identical workforce for the third recreation in a row, with one other likelihood for Finn Allen who has been struggling for runs as opener. Rachin Ravindra and Jacob Duffy stay the one two gamers from the hosts’ squad to not get a recreation all collection.

Tanvir will the third spinner for Bangladesh, alongside legspinner Rishad Hossain and offspinner Mahedi Hasan. He has performed just one worldwide – a T20I towards England in Mirpur in March 2023.

Even although there was sunshine at toss, thunderstorm alerts for the realm after 1pm native might interrupt the sport just like the second T20I which was deserted after 11 overs of cricket. The first T20I in Napier was received by Bangladesh. The workforce batting first has received each T20I at Mount Maunganui. This is the ultimate males’s worldwide of the 2023 calendar yr between Full Member sides.

New Zealand XI: Finn Allen, Tim Seifert (wk), Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner (capt), Adam Milne, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Ben Sears.

Bangladesh XI: Rony Talukdar (wk), Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), Shamim Hossain, Towhid Hridoy, Afif Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanvir Islam.