Recent Match Report – New Zealand vs Bangladesh 1st Test 2021/22
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Hosts, with Taylor and Ravindra in the middle, are just 17 ahead with five second-innings wickets in hand
Stumps New Zealand 147 for 5 (Young 69, Taylor 37*, Ravindra 6*, Ebadot 4-39) and 328 lead Bangladesh 458 (Mominul 88, Litton 86, Boult 4-85) by 17 runs
But the script changed in the 54th over. Ebadot first got one to nip back at Young, who missed with the pull and the ball hit timber. Young threw back his head, swung his bat over the stumps and kicked the ground in disgust. This was the breakthrough Bangladesh had been waiting for.
Ebadot struck Henry Nicholls’ front pad next ball, but the lbw appeal was turned down. Next ball, though, he got the ball to burst through Nicholls’ defence.
Then, in Ebadot’s next over, Tom Blundell missed the incoming delivery and was given out lbw. The review didn’t work for the New Zealand wicketkeeper as it was all three reds. Ebadot’s spell read 7-2-15-3, which followed a nine-over burst earlier in the day during which he had sent back Devon Conway, the first-innings centurion.
Young reached his second fifty in the match at the other end, and the pair started to get a few more boundaries, but Bangladesh then got another golden opportunity to break through. Taylor was stranded in the middle of the pitch on that occasion, and Shadman’s throw from gully should have caught him well short at the non-striker’s end, except that Ebadot intercepted it and fluffed the chance.
Bangladesh had made a good start with the ball when they took two wickets in the second session. Taskin removed captain Tom Latham when his rising delivery took the left-hander’s inside edge on to the stumps.
Conway, too, fell cheaply when his edge on to the pads flew to Shadman at gully. Ebadot had appealed for lbw at first, but the review confirmed the catch.
It could have been three for the session, but Litton Das spilt Young’s attempted cut off Mehidy Hasan Miraz when he was on 31.
Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo’s Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84
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