Young and Latham energy New Zealand to 1-0 lead in rain-hit match

30 overs New Zealand 239 for 7 (Young 105, Latham 92, Shoriful 2-28) beat Bangladesh 200 for 9 (Anamul 43, Clarkson 2-24, Sodhi 2-35, Milne 2-46) by 44 runs (DLS methodology)

New Zealand acquired off to a rocky begin after rain had initially decreased the sport to 46 overs a facet after the toss, when Shoriful Islam discovered the sides of Rachin Ravindra and Henry Nicholls to dismiss them for geese within the first over. From 5 for two, Young and Latham started the restoration however Latham was dropped on 18 when Soumya Sarkar put down a catch above his head at second slip off Mustafizur Rahman. The innings was interrupted twice by rain; first within the 14th over, when it turned a 40-overs-per-side contest, after which within the twentieth over with New Zealand 108 for two. Both batters had simply opened up with consecutive fours from Latham in opposition to Mehidy and Young in opposition to Mustafizur that pushed the run fee in direction of 5.50.

As quickly as Latham introduced up 4000 ODI runs and his 50, off 58 balls, got here the longest rain interruption within the twentieth over that decreased the sport to a 30-over contest. After play resumed, Latham and Young hit Soumya for 2 sixes in an over and Latham additionally launched Mehidy into the automotive park over long-on earlier than clobbering Soumya for 3 consecutive fours on the leg facet. Young, after elevating his fifty of 61 balls, accelerated by swatting Shoriful for 2 fours in an over behind sq. on the leg facet that took them to 159 for two with six overs left.

Running out of choices, Bangladesh introduced on Afif however he too acquired belted for 2 sixes earlier than Mehidy lastly gave them some respite by having Latham chop on for 92 off 77. Mark Chapman attacked from his first ball, hitting two sixes and a 4 in his first six balls, whereas Young raced from 72 to 89 in a single over with 4 extra fours off Soumya. In a dramatic twenty ninth over from Mehidy, Young smacked a 4 and a six to get to 99 earlier than Chapman was run out and Young reached his third ODI hundred off simply 82 balls. Bangladesh conceded solely eight runs and affected three run-outs within the last over, however New Zealand had put up a formidable 239 by hammering 131 runs off the final 64 balls after the final rain break.

Set a revised goal of 245, Bangladesh misplaced Soumya for a duck when he was caught behind off Adam Milne within the first over earlier than Anamul and Najmul Hossain Shanto steered them in direction of 50. Ish Sodhi, nonetheless, struck along with his fourth ball by bowling Shanto round his legs by going previous his reverse sweep, and when it seemed like Anamul and Litton have been going regular, Clarkson struck with two completely different sorts of quick balls. He first took a return catch off Anamul by inducing a forefront after which bowled a slower bouncer to have Litton caught behind. Like Shanto, Mushfiqur’s reverse sweep additionally resulted in his dismissal when his prime edge was caught by wicketkeeper Tom Blundell. Bangladesh have been reeling at 103 for five, with the asking fee above 10 an over.

Bangladesh have been nonetheless within the recreation although, with Towhd Hridoy and Afif including a fast stand of 56 off 38 balls, but it surely was nonetheless not sufficient to scale back the asking fee. They slipped additional when Sodhi returned and had Hridoy caught at lengthy leg off a incorrect’un and Afif lobbed a catch to quick midwicket subsequent over. It was a misplaced trigger to get 80 runs from six overs with three wickets in hand, and Mehidy’s blows solely ensured that Bangladesh acquired to 200.