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The 1st T20I Match of the Bangladesh tour of New Zealand, 2023 was played today at McLean Park, Napier. In which Bangladesh beat New Zealand by 5 wickets.
TOSS- Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bowl.
New Zealand Innings- New Zealand batted first and started the inning very poorly, scored just 134 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. James Neesham played a brilliant inning of 48 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 29 balls, Mitchell Santner scored 23 runs in 22 balls, Mark Chapman 19 runs in 19 balls, Daryl Mitchell 14 runs in 15 balls, Adam Milne played an unbeaten inning of 16 runs in 12 balls, apart from this, Tim Southee dismissed just for 8 runs in 10 balls, Ish Sodhi 2 runs in 5 balls, Ish Sodhi 1 run in 3 balls, Tim Seifert and Glenn Phillips dismissed without scoring, and Ben Sears remains unbeaten for 1 run in 1 ball. In this way, New Zealand scored 134 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and set a target of 135 runs in front of Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi bowlers- Shoriful Islam took 3 wickets just for 26 runs in his spell, Mahedi Hasan 2 wickets just for 14 runs in his spell, Mustafizur Rahman 2 wickets just for 15 runs in his spell, Tanzim Hasan Sakib 1 wicket for 45 runs in his spell, Rishad Hossain 1 wicket for 24 runs in 3 overs, and Afif Hossain was wicketless for 8 runs in 1 over.
Bangladesh inning- Bangladesh chasing 135 runs in the second inning achieved the target very easily for losing just 5 wickets in the fourth ball of the 19 over and won the match by 5 wickets. Bangladesh started the inning very well, Litton Das and Rony Talukdar came to start the inning, the first wicket has dismissed for 13 runs in 1.4 over, Rony Talukdar dismissed just for 10 runs in 7 balls, next batsman Najmul Hossain Shanto came to bat and handled the inning with Litton Das, the second wicket has dismissed for 38 runs in last ball of the 5th over, Najmul Hossain Shanto dismissed after scoring 19 runs in 14 balls, followed by Soumya Sarkar came to bat and played well with Litton Das, the third wicket has dismissed for 67 runs in 8.4 over, Soumya Sarkar dismissed after scoring 19 runs in 18 balls, next batsman Towhid Hridoy came to bat and handled the inning with Litton Das, fourth wicket has dismissed for 96 runs in 13.3 over, Towhid Hridoy dismissed after scoring 19 runs in 18 balls, next batsman Afthe if Hossain came to bat and he dismissed just for 1 run in 6 balls as fifth wicket in 14.3 over, the team score was 97 runs, followed by Mahedi Hasan came to bat handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Litton Das, Litton Das played a very brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 42 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaires in just 36 balls, and Mahedi Hasan also played an unbeaten victory inning of 19 with the help of 1 six and 1 boundaries in just 16 balls. In this way, Bangladesh chased the target very easily for losing just 5 wickets in 18.4 overs, and won the match by 5 wickets.
New Zealand bowlers- Tim Southee got 1 wicket for 16 runs in his spell, Mitchell Santner 1 wicket for 16 runs in his spell, Ben Sears 1 wicket for 36 runs in his spell, Adam Milne 1 wicket for 39 runs in 3.4 overs, James Neesham 1 wicket for 7 runs in 1 over, and Ish Sodhi was wicketless for 20 runs in 2 overs.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Bangladeshi all-rounder Mahedi Hasan was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling as well as batting, played an unbeaten victory inning of 19 runs in 16 balls, and took 2 wickets for 14 runs in his spell.
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