New Zealand are 50/1 in 13.2 overs against Bangladesh in the opening ODI at Dhaka, with Will Young and Henry Nicholls steadily building the chase for the visitors after Bangladesh opted to bowl first.
New Zealand innings: key moments
13.2 overs: Taskin Ahmed to Will Young, kept full and on the off side. Young eases the ball to the fielder at mid-on.
13.1 overs: Taskin Ahmed to Will Young, a hard length on the off side. Young blocks it calmly towards mid-on.
12.6 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Henry Nicholls, too full and on the stumps. Nicholls defends to mid-on—dot ball to finish the over.
12.5 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Henry Nicholls, darted onto middle and leg. Nicholls tucks it to the fielder at mid-wicket for another controlled stroke.
12.4 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Henry Nicholls, too full and on off. Nicholls flicks it to the mid-wicket region.
12.3 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Will Young, fuller delivery on the off side. Young pushes it to cover for a run, and the partnership brings up New Zealand’s fifty.
12.2 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Will Young, quicker ball, on off. Young blocks it to short cover.
12.1 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Will Young, FOUR! A nice full ball on middle. Young gets low and sweeps through the gap at backward square leg to find the boundary.
11.6 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, good over. Hard length on off, Nicholls blocks to short cover.
11.6 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, Wide! A bouncer that strays outside off. Nicholls lets it go.
11.5 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, strong effort in the deep. Hard length on leg, Nicholls pulls through backward square leg; the fielder moves to his right near the boundary and stops it. The batters take two runs.
11.4 overs: Nahid Rana to Will Young, fuller than a good length, clocked at 145.7 kmph. Young drives it through covers for a single.
11.3 overs: Nahid Rana to Will Young, fuller and on the stumps. Young blocks it back to backward point.
11.2 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, goes fuller, on middle and leg. Nicholls flicks it through backward square leg for one; Will Young looked for a second, but Nicholls sends him back.
11.1 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, hard length on off. Nicholls covers the line and blocks back to the bowler.
11.1 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, Wide! The ball swings down the leg side. Nicholls tries to flick and misses.
10.6 overs: Shoriful Islam to Will Young, fuller than good length and outside off. Young blocks to the bowler.
10.5 overs: Shoriful Islam to Henry Nicholls, too full outside off. Nicholls looks to block, but the ball takes an inside edge and rolls past the right of the keeper towards fine leg; the batters cross.
10.4 overs: Shoriful Islam to Henry Nicholls, nice and full on off. Nicholls pushes it to point.
10.3 overs: Shoriful Islam to Henry Nicholls, good length on off. Nicholls flicks it to mid-on.
10.2 overs: Shoriful Islam to Henry Nicholls, past the edge! A hard-length ball just outside off angling in. Nicholls goes for a drive but is beaten on the inside edge, narrowly missing the top of off.
10.1 overs: Shoriful Islam to Henry Nicholls, back of a length angling across just outside off. Nicholls blocks it to mid-off.
9.6 overs: Nahid Rana to Will Young, Rana bashes the deck and angles the ball back into the batter. Young works it to mid-wicket.
9.5 overs: Nahid Rana to Will Young, back of a length around off. Young leans back to cut square on off but misses.
9.4 overs: Nahid Rana to Will Young, FOUR! Overpitched around off, Young meets it on the front foot and drives through the covers on the bounce for four more.
9.3 overs: Nahid Rana to Will Young, back of a length wide of off. Young slashes hard but is beaten.
9.2 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, at 143.2 kmph. Another short ball on middle and leg; Nicholls tickles it off the gloves to fine leg for a strike rotation.
9.1 overs: Nahid Rana to Henry Nicholls, FOUR! Rana begins poorly by bowling short around the hips. The left-hander flicks it through square leg to add four.
8.6 overs: Shoriful Islam to Will Young, a maiden from Shoriful. Good length around off; Young taps it to covers for another dot to end the over.
8.5 overs: Shoriful Islam to Will Young, on a length on middle and leg. Young pushes it to mid-on.
8.4 overs: Shoriful Islam to Will Young, hard length around off. Young keeps it out with a block.
8.3 overs: Shoriful Islam to Will Young, back of a length around off. Young drives to cover-point off the front foot.
8.2 overs: Shoriful Islam to Will Young, DROPPED! Saif Hassan fails to hold a simple catch at first slip. The ball is a touch full on off and moves across; Young drives and edges it outside, but it flies to Saif at first slip and he drops it. Will Young survives on 1.
8.1 overs: Shoriful Islam to Will Young, good length around middle and leg. Young tucks it to square leg.
Powerplay note
Powerplay 2: from the fielding side, four players are now allowed outside the 30-yard circle until the 40th over.
Earlier overs: boundaries and rotations
7.6 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Henry Nicholls, an under-cutter on off. Nicholls blocks it out.
7.5 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Henry Nicholls, darted into the batter. Nicholls punches it back to the bowler.
7.4 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Henry Nicholls, FOUR! Tossed up around off, Nicholls gets underneath it and lofts it over the bowler’s head for a boundary straight down the ground.
7.3 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Henry Nicholls, Nicholls comes around the stumps. Mehidy bowls it full on off; Nicholls rocks back and pushes to mid-off.
7.2 overs: Mehidy Hasan Miraz to Will Young, full on middle and leg. Young flicks it through mid-on for one.
Bangladesh captain and New Zealand skipper quotes
Tom Latham: “We are gonna have a bat. It looks a reasonably good surface, looks slightly dry and it’s a day game so it will potentially get slower later on. We have got three genuine seamers, a left-armer, and then a few all-rounders. The boys are raring to go. It has been a couple of hot days but we will embrace what Bangladesh has for us.”
Mehidy Hasan Miraz: “Yes, I love to bowl first because it’s a new ground and it’s a new wicket as well. That was a great series for us (against Pakistan) and a lot of our bowlers bowled really well. We have a very good bowling attack, two spinners and three fast bowlers. You never know what kind of a wicket we are playing on (at Mirpur) but it looks like a good surface.”
Toss and playing XIs
Toss: New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat against Bangladesh.
New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Tom Latham (w/c), Henry Nicholls, Nick Kelly, Muhammad Abbas, Dean Foxcroft, Josh Clarkson, Nathan Smith, Blair Tickner, Jayden Lennox, William O’Rourke.
Bangladesh (Playing XI): Saif Hassan, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Litton Das (w), Towhid Hridoy, Mehidy Hasan Miraz (c), Rishad Hossain, Afif Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Nahid Rana, Shoriful Islam.
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