New Zealand Beat Bangladesh in 1st Test matchof series,2016-17 ( part -1)

Bangladesh was scheduled to play a 2 Match Test 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 Test Match was to be played on Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand from 12th to 16th Jan, 2017. New Zealand already won the ODI series 3-0 And 1st two T 20 matches as well.

New Zealand won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1st Test Match: Mushfiqur Rahim (c), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah Riad, Imrul Kayes (wk), Mominul Haque, Kamrul Islam Rabbi, Sabbir Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Subashis Roy, Mehedi Hasan

And New Zealand team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st Test Match: Ross Taylor, Tim Southee, BJ Watling (wk), Neil Wagner, Kane Williamson (c), Colin de Grand homme, Trent Boult, Tom Latham, Mitchell Santner, Jeet Raval, Henry Nicholls

Bangladesh started very well in the 1^st innings of the test match batting first and was able to make total of 595 runs 152 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and declared their innings and invite New Zealand to bat with top scores by Bangladesh Star All rounder S A Hasan who made 217 runs in 276 balls with 31 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh Skipper, Wicket Keeper and Star Batsman M rahim who made 159 runs in 260 balls with 23 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 61 runs in 100 balls, Left hand T iqbal made 56 runs in 50 balls with 11 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 112 runs in 100 balls, M M Haque made 64 runs in 116 balls with 10 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 55 runs in 100 balls, Sabir R made 54 runs in 86 balls with 7 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 63 runs in 100 balls and M Riad made 26 runs in 64  balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 41 runs in 100 balls.