BAN vs NZ T20 Series: The three-match T20 series between Bangladesh and New Zealand ended in a very exciting manner. In this match played in Mount Maunganui, first Bangladesh team collapsed for just 110 runs. In reply, by the time they reached 49 runs, half of the New Zealand team also returned to the pavilion. Here James Neesham and Mitchell Santner made an unbeaten partnership of 46 runs to give victory to the Kiwi team.
This victory also happened due to rain. In fact, when New Zealand needed 16 runs from 32 balls to win, it started raining and then the result had to be calculated using the Duckworth-Lewis rule. Here the Kiwi team was declared the winner by 17 runs. In this way Bangladesh lost its chance to win the T20 series in New Zealand.
Mitchell Santner's four wickets
New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and chose to bowl first. Kiwi bowlers started taking wickets from the first over. Team Saudi sent Soumya Sarkar (4) to the pavilion on the fourth ball of the match. After this, the Bangladesh team kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Ronnie Talukdar (10), Captain Shanto (17), Tauheed Hadouy (16), Afif Hussain (14), Shamim Hussain (9), Mehdi Hasan (4), Rishad Hussain (10), Shoriful Islam (4), Tanveer Islam. (8) Kept losing wickets by playing short innings. In this way, the entire Bangladesh team collapsed for a total of 110 runs in 19.2 overs.
Match winning innings of Neesham and Santner
New Zealand, which set out to chase the small target of 111 runs, also had a bad start. Tim Seifert, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips and Mark Chapman returned to the pavilion after scoring just one run each. Finn Allen played an inning of 38 runs and managed the innings for some time, then he also left with a total of 49 runs. From here, Neesham (28) and Santner (18) added unbeaten 46 runs and returned the Kiwi team to the winning path.
match stopped due to rain
When the Kiwis had scored 95 runs losing 5 wickets in 14.4 overs, it started raining and the target had to be revised. Here New Zealand got the target of 79 runs in 14.4 overs, which it had crossed long ago. In such a situation, the Kiwi team was declared victorious by 17 runs. Mitchell Santner was the 'Player of the Match'. He also took 4 wickets and played an inning of 18 runs.
Series was drawn 1-1
With this victory, the Kiwi team drew the three-match T20 series 1-1. Let us tell you that Bangladesh won the first match of this series and the second match had to be canceled due to rain. The 'Player of the Series' award went to Shoriful Islam of Bangladesh. He took a total of 6 wickets in this series.
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