Bangladesh registered a historic win against New Zealand on Wednesday. He defeated Kiwi team by 8 wickets in the first test match played at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui.
The World Test Champions suffered their first home defeat in 10 years against an Asian team. This Test match win is historic in many ways as Bangladesh registered their first win against New Zealand. The first win in an away match makes it even more special.
It was a thorough team effort by the Bangladesh team, but a clean-up in the third innings by Abadot Hossain earned him the man of the match award for his six-wicket haul.
At the start of Day 5, New Zealand were 147/5 with a lead of just 9 runs and all their hopes rested on veteran batsman Ross Taylor. Abadot Hossain and Taskin Ahmed did not give much time to the New Zealand batsmen as they were bundled out for 169.
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Bangladesh needed only 40 runs to win the test match which they did with ease.
Devon Conway scored a century in the first innings for New Zealand, but apart from him there were no positive performances. Bangladesh, on the other hand, batted fluently in the second innings of the match, scoring 458 runs. Mahmudul Hasan, Liton Das and Mominul scored half-centuries to take Bangladesh to a good score.
Here are some of the former cricketers’ reaction to Bangladesh’s historic win:
Match Scores: New Zealand 328 (Devon Conway 122, Henry Nicholls 75; Shorful Islam 3-69) & 169 (Will Young 69; Abadot Hossain 6-46) against Bangladesh: 458 (Mominul Haque 88, Liton Das 86; Trent Boult 4) ) -85) and 42/2 (Nazmul Shanto 17; Kyle Jamieson 1-12) Bangladesh won by 8 wickets.
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