Devon Conway’s unbeaten 92 and Ish Sodhi’s four-wicket innings led them to a 66-run win over Bangladesh in New Zealand against Bangladesh in New Zealand on Sunday. Conway, whose breathtaking innings included 11 fours and three sixes, was shared with the youngster (53) in the first innings in a 105-run partnership as New Zealand went on to win the toss and bat an unbeaten 210 to bat. Mohammad Naeem made a brilliant start in Bangladesh’s reply with two fours off Tim Southee.
But once the tourists reached 39 in the fifth over of the innings, it was at first as Logie Ferguson removed Naim for 27 and then Sodhi took his innings with four wickets out of eight.
At the end of their 20 overs, Bangladesh took 144 for eight and Sodhi took four wickets for 28 runs.
New Zealand went to the match without six frontline players, including Kane Williamson and Trent Boult, and captain Tim Southee said it was delightful to see the new performance with the bat.
“Devon is just taking what he is doing at this level, it looks very easy,” said Southee Conway now with four fifties and 12 Twenty20s to an average of 65.42.
“Being able to see that people can come in and perform. If you used to take out five or six people a few years ago we would go around and around, but now a lot of people are knocking at the door. . “
‘Let yourself down’
Disappointed Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah raised a finger on a big batting performance before game two at Napier on Tuesday and called for a major improvement.
“We have reduced ourselves in our batting department,” he said.
“Ish (Sodhi) is an experienced campaigner, he uses situations really well, the ball was catching a bit here but we can’t make the same mistakes again and again.”
After Sodhi’s innings, Aafif Hussain (45) and Mohammad Saifuddin (34 not out) led the innings with a 63-run stand for the seventh wicket, but they raised the scoring rate to jeopardize New Zealand’s total. Unable to
The biggest disappointment for New Zealand was Fin Allen’s much-awaited debut.
The 21-year-old thriller set New Zealand home in the domestic Twenty20 competition at an average strike rate of 194 with an average of 56.
But when he stepped into the international arena, he was bowled by Nasam Ahmed for the first ball in the opening over.
Promoted
When Nasum also made his debut, he took Martin Guptill’s wicket for 35 in the seventh over of the innings for his second spell.
Nassum was denied the third wicket when Conway was caught by Shoreful Islam at square leg boundary but Ripley indicated that Shorulent’s feet touched the rope, resulting in Conway scoring his half-century.
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