Ish Sodhi’s all-round heroics turned out to be too good for Bangladesh as New Zealand stormed to victory by 86 runs within the second ODI of the collection on Saturday, September 23 on the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.
Starting with, Sodhi racked up his highest ODI rating of 35 runs off 39 balls with 5 fours. Thereafter, he completed with figures of 10-1-39-6 to be sure that the Black Caps bowl the Tigers out for 168 in 41.1 overs after setting a goal of 255.
The Kiwis additionally ended their 15-year-long wait of beating Bangladesh in an ODI within the latter’s yard. New Zealand got here into the match after dropping eight ODIs in a row in opposition to the Tigers on Bangladesh soil.
Sodhi obtained help from Kyle Jamieson, who picked up two essential wickets, together with that of stand-in skipper Litton Das.
As far as Bangladesh had been involved, the main focus was on the trio of Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah and Soumya Sarkar. Tamim regarded aggressive from the outset as he scored 44 runs earlier than Sodhi accounted for his wicket.
Mahmudullah fell in need of a half-century as he scored 49 runs earlier than Cole McConchie dismissed him with a half-tracker. Mahmudullah turned the third Bangladeshi batter to attain 10000 runs in worldwide cricket, however remains to be a run in need of reaching the 5000-run milestone.
Once Mahmudullah obtained out, it was throughout bar the shouting for Bangladesh. Nasum Ahmed scored 21 runs, nevertheless it was solely to cut back the dropping margin.
Earlier, after electing to bat first, New Zealand misplaced three early wickets of Will Young, Finn Allen and Chad Bowes. But a partnership of 95 runs between Henry Nicholls and Tom Blundell introduced the Kiwis again into the competition.
Blundell scored 68 off 66, however Nicholls missed out on scoring a fifty. Khaled Ahmed and Mahedi Hasan picked up three wickets apiece. Mustafizur Rahman was additionally spectacular with two scalps.
The match additionally witnessed an occasion when Hasan Mahmud ran Sodhi in his supply stride on the non-striker’s finish. But skipper Litton Das known as Sodhi again after the third umpire gave the batter out.
The third ODI is ready to happen on Tuesday, September 26 in Mirpur.
Edited By:
sabyasachi chowdhury
Published On:
Sep 23, 2023