Daryl Mitchell and Kane Williamson shined with the bat as New Zealand effortlessly chased down Bangladesh’s 245 with 43 balls to spare on Friday at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium.
Captain Kane Williamson, who performed his first sport of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 right now, retired damage after making 78 runs from 107 balls. Daryl Mitchell remained unbeaten on 89 from 67 balls. The best-hander’s innings comprised of six boundaries and 4 maximums. Glenn Philips remained not out on 16 from 11 balls.
After Bangladesh made 245/9, the Kiwis misplaced in-form Rachin Ravindra early within the innings for 9 (13). Mustafizur Rahman dismissed the teen who was promoted to the opener’s slot following Williamson’s return.
The New Zealand captain steadied the run chase together with Devon Conway who made 45 from 59 deliveries earlier than being despatched again by Shakib Al Hasan.
This introduced a extra aggressive Mitchell to the crease, who took cost of the chase, letting his skipper play second-fiddle. The New Zealand dressing room, nonetheless, was not comfortable to see an exhausted Williamson strolling again retired damage after making an attempt a flashy drive. This was after he had taken a blow to his left thumb.
Mushfiqur Rahim made 66 from 75 balls whereas Shakib Al Hasan was dismissed for 40 from 51. Mahmudullah remained unbeaten on 41 and supplied some hearth to the Bangladesh innings in the direction of the tip.
The Tigers started on a disastrous notice, dropping Litton Das (0) off the very first supply of the sport to pacer Trent Boult, as his tried flick was collected by Matt Henry in high quality leg.
Tanzid Hasan (16 ) and Mehidy Hasan Miraz (30) tried to place up some resistance earlier than the previous fell prey to pacer Lockie Ferguson, providing a catch to Devon Conway in sq. leg within the eighth over. Notably, Tanzid was dropped when he was but to open his account by Tom Latham within the opening over. It was a troublesome probability, nonetheless. When the rating learn 56, Bangladesh misplaced Miraz to Ferguson, adopted by Najmul Hossain Shanto (7) to spinner Glenn Phillips.
Shedding two wickets in an area of three balls was a physique blow for Bangladesh, just for Shakib and Mushfiqur to take management for a while with a 96-run partnership for the fifth wicket.
Nevertheless, Shakib gave the impression to be struggling within the scorching and humid circumstances right here, taking a medical break earlier than finally being dismissed by Ferguson within the thirtieth over.
The pitch gave the impression to be helping the pacers, and Ferguson seemed to capitalise together with his ‘bowl brief and fast’ technique. Additionally, the strip utilised was totally different from the one which helped the spinners throughout the India-Australia contest on Sunday.
In the meantime, Mushfiqur introduced up his forty eighth ODI half-century and was cleverly attacking the unfastened deliveries, whereas spinners Mitchell Santner and Rachin Ravindra bowled tight strains.
Within the thirty sixth over, pacer Matt Henry gave the Kiwis aid as he bowled Mushfiqur with an attractive slower off-cutter that stayed low and uprooted the off-stump, leaving Bangladesh at 175 for six.
After dropping the seventh wicket in Towhid Hridoy for 13, Mahmudullah and Taskin Ahmed (17) added 34 runs for the eighth wicket earlier than the latter gave a catch to Daryl Mitchell off Santner.
Whereas Mustafizur Rahman was the ninth man out within the forty eighth over, the ultimate pair managed to bat out the remaining deliveries.
Mitchell Santner was essentially the most economical of all of them, ending with figures of 1/31 in 10 overs.
– With PTI inputs
