New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 4 wickets

Sports Desk: New Zealand beat Bangladesh by four wickets in the Walton Tri-Nation Series at Clontarf Cricket Club Ground in Dublin on Wednesday.

New Zealand’s Latham's 54-run, Neesham's 52-run and Broom's 48-run Black Caps scored 258 runs to beat Tigers.

Earlier, winning toss, New Zealand’s captain invited Bangladesh to bat first. Bangladesh scored 257 for 9 in 50 overs against New Zealand where Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad hammered fifties scoring 61, 55 and 51 runs respectively.

JDS Neesham was selected as Player of the match for his outstanding performance in the match.

Bangladesh Squad: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt) Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Mehedi Hasan.

New Zealand Squad: Tom Latham (capt), Luke Ronchi, George Worker, Ross Taylor, Neil Broom, Jimmy Neesham, Colin Monro, Seth Rance, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Hamish Bennett.


risingbd/Dhaka/May 17, 2017/Shamim/Nasim