Bangladesh made history by defeating New Zealand

Shariful Islam-Tanjim Shakibra, with the new ball, set fire to fire! Kiwi batters have been burnt to ashes in their pace! The entire team could not even get a hundred runs on the scoreboard - all out was 98 runs. That was their lowest total in an ODI against Bangladesh, the fourth lowest in the Kiwis' ODI history at home and the lowest since 2007.

After such heroics by the bowlers, the rest of the work in Napier was easily done by the batsmen. Bangladesh got their first ODI victory against them on New Zealand soil. That too by a huge margin of 9 wickets. This Saturday morning must be a fairy tale for Bangladesh cricket!

After losing the toss and batting first, New Zealand lost all wickets in 31 overs and stopped at 98 runs. The highest 26 runs for the team came from the bat of Will Young. Tanjim Shakib, Shariful Islam and Soumya Sarkar took 3 wickets each for Bangladesh. In response, Bangladesh reached the target in 15 overs after losing one wicket. Nazmul Hossain Shanto remained unbeaten with 51 runs.

Two openers Enamul Haque Bijay and Soumya Sarkar started off chasing a small target. They were progressing well to handle the pace and bounce of the Kiwi pacers. However, in the fifth over of the innings, Soumya had to leave the field due to eye problems. But it is nothing serious. The team management did not take risk with him as the target was small.

Nazmul Hossain Shanto played aggressively from the start. With time, Vijay also came out of the shell. When Vijay returned to Sajghar after scoring 37 runs, the pair of 69 runs was broken. When Vijay returned, Bangladesh were just 15 runs away from victory. Shanto quickly finished the rest of the work with Liton. In the meantime, this top order batter also took his half century. In the end, the Bangladesh captain left the field winning the team after playing an unbeaten innings of 51 runs.

Earlier, New Zealand was put under pressure at the beginning of batting. The Kiwis could not get more than 27 runs after losing 2 wickets in the first 10 overs in the controlled bowling of the Tiger Pacers. Tanjim Shakib took the first two wickets.

Shariful Islam joined the wicket party with Shakib in the 17th over. The left-arm pacer took the first victim of the day by sending back Tom Latham for 21 runs. He returned to bowling in his next over and found the wicket again. Will Young, who scored 25 runs in the 19th over, was sent back to the dressing room. Shariful came back after one over and picked up wickets in his three consecutive overs. This time, Shariful broke the Kiwi top order by returning Mark Chapman who scored 2 runs.

At the other end, Shakib was also aggressive. He sent back Tom Blundell in the 23rd over. When Bladen returned for 4 runs, New Zealand lost six wickets after scoring only 70 runs at the end of 23 overs.

Soumya Sarkar was effective on this day like Shariful-Sakib. After taking 6 wickets of New Zealand, Soumya came to the bowling and picked up 3 wickets. And Mustafizur Rahman hit the last nail in the coffin of Kiwis.

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