Bangladesh won by 9 wickets in the third ODI, New Zealand won the series 2-1 – Dainik Savera Times

Napier: Bangladesh needed just 15 overs to defeat New Zealand by nine wickets in the third ODI here on Saturday, ending the hosts’ 17-match winning streak at home. New Zealand won the three-match ODI series 2–1.

New Zealand won the first ODI by 44 runs and the second ODI by seven wickets. After bowling out New Zealand for just 98 runs in 31.4 overs, captain Nazmul Hussain Shanto scored unbeaten 51 runs in 42 balls and Anamul Haque contributed 37 runs in 33 balls. Due to which Bangladesh achieved its first ODI win over New Zealand in 19 attempts.

Bangladesh on Saturday bowled out New Zealand for its lowest score in the ODI between the two teams. Tanzim Hasan Saqib took three wickets for 14 runs and Shoriful Islam took three wickets for 22 runs. In this way both of them gave the best performance of their career.

Soumya Sarkar also took three wickets for 18 runs, helping the New Zealand team score less than the previous minimum ODI score of 162 runs against Bangladesh. Bangladesh captain Shanto won the toss and decided to bowl at McLean Park. Which is generally considered best for batting.

There was a lot of grass on the pitch, of which Shoriful and Shakib took full advantage. New Zealand’s top order collapsed and they lost six wickets for 70 runs. The biggest partnership of the innings for New Zealand was 36 runs for the third wicket between Will Young (26 runs) and Tom Latham (21 runs).

Apart from these two, only two other batsmen could reach double digits. After this, Sarkar took the wickets of Josh Clarkson (16 runs), Adam Milne (04) and Aditya Ashok (10 runs). The last wicket was in the name of Mushfiqur Rahim (1 wicket for 36 runs).