New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 88 runs

Sports Desk:  New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 88 runs in the third ODI at Dunedin on Wednesday.

Earlier, Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bowl first. New Zealand set a 331-run target against Bangladesh.

Bangladesh: 242 (47.2/50 ov, target 331)

New Zealand's middle-order hoisted them to 330-6 in the third ODI against Bangladesh. Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls and Tom Latham struck fifties before Jimmy Neesham and Colin de Grandhomme blasted 74 runs at a combined strike-rate of 189.74 as the Bangladesh bowlers, despite the inclusion of Rubel Hossain, struggled to contain the run-flow.

Taylor's 69 took him past Stephen Fleming's 8,007 runs to become New Zealand's highest run-scorer in ODIs, and he did it in much quicker time too, taking only 218 ODIs compared to Fleming's 280. Nicholls and Latham struck runs at a fairly good pace too, before the home side struck 106 runs in the last ten overs.
 

Squads:

New Zealand XI: Guptill, Nicholls, Munro, Taylor, Latham (Capt), de Grandhomme, Neesham, Santner, Ferguson, Boult, Southee


Bangladesh XI: Tamim, Liton (wk), Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur, Mahmudullah, Sabbir, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Saifuddin, Mashrafe (capt), Rubel, Mustafizur


risingbd/Feb 20, 2019/Mukul