New Zealand Thrashed Bangladesh in ICC 1999 world cup

In the 6th match of the ICC cricket world cup, Bangladesh was against the New Zealand. This game was played on County Ground, Chelmsford, England on 17th May, 1999. Both teams were good but New Zealand is ranked higher and a better team than Bangladesh.

New Zealand won the toss and opts to bowl, this means Bangladesh will bat first and set target for New Zealand to chase. This is how New Zealand team and 11 were looking like: Stephen Fleming (c), Nathan Astle, Chris Cairns, Craig McMillan, Gavin Larsen, Chris Harris, Dion Nash, Adam Parore (wk), Roger Twose, Geoff Allott, Matt Horne

And Bangladesh team was and 11 were looking like: Khaled Mahmud, Khaled Mashud (wk), Mohammad Rafique, Aminul Islam (c), Akram Khan, Enamul Haque, Hasibul Hossain, Naimur Rahman, Shahriar Hossain, Mehrab Hossain, Manjural Islam

Bangladesh started very poorly and lost both their openers at the team score of 7 runs in 2.3 over’s. In the form of S Hossain and M Hossain. After that Bangladesh couldn’t bat well at all and they were finally bowled out for only 116 runs in 37.4 over’s with E haque the top scorer with only 19 runs.

New Zealand was required to target 117 runs in 50 over’s

New Zealand started badly as well and lost their best batsman Nathan Astle on the team score of 5 runs in 1.5 over’s. But after that they batted very well and with the contribution of M horne who made 35 runs in 86 balls with 4 4’s and Roger twose who made 30 runs in 36 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 83 runs in 100 balls. New Zealand reached the target at the loss of only 4 wickets in 33 over’s with 17 over’s still left to play in allotted 50 over’s of the game.

This much total can never be enough for a strong team of New Zealand.

Gavin Larsen was the Man of the match for his brilliant bowling as he concedes only 19 runs in 10 over’s and also taken 3 wickets.

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