New Zealand Beat Bangladesh in 1st T 20 of series,2016-17

Bangladesh was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 INTERNATIONAL Series in New Zealand in 2016-17. This series was important as both teams were playing very good cricket and it would be great to witness them playing in bilateral series. The 1st T 20INTERNATIONAL Match was to be played on McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand on 3rd Jan, 2017. New Zealand already won the ODI series 3-0.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1st T 20 INTERNATIONAL Match: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah Riad, Imrul Kayes, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Soumya Sarkar, Nurul Hasan (wk), Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Mustafizur Rahman

And New Zealand team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st T 20 INTERNATIONAL match: Luke Ronchi (wk), Neil Broom, Kane Williamson (c), Colin de Grand homme, Colin Munro, Corey Anderson, Matt Henry, Mitchell Santner, Ben Wheeler ,Lockie Ferguson, Tom Bruce

Bangladesh started well and was only able to make total of 141 runs 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and top scored by M Riad who made 52 runs in 47 balls with 3 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 111 runs in 100 balls.

And M H Saikat who made 20 runs in 17 balls with 0 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 118 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed to score 142 runs in 20 over’s to win this 1^st T 20 INTERNATIONAL Match and to take lead in the series 1-0 in 3 match T 20 series.

New Zealand batted very well and chased the target of 142 runs in only 18 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and top scored by Skipper Kane W who made 73 runs in 55 balls with 5 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 133 runs in 100 balls and C D G Homme who made 41 runs in 22 balls with 3 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 186 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand won the match by 6 wickets and leads the series 1-0.

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