Great batting. The Bolt-Saudi-Wagner pace trio are handling the attack brilliantly. Mahmudul Hasan Joy, who made his debut just before the Test, picked up the fifty, before Nazmul Hossain Shant, who was at the other end, scored a half-century. Both are undefeated.
Bangladesh batted out New Zealand at the beginning of the third day. Sadman Islam and Mahmudul Hasan Joy added 43 runs in the opening over. Sadman returned with 22 runs off 55 balls but Joy picked up the fifth. At the time of writing, he has scored 55 off 181 balls. Shanto is unbeaten on 63 off 106 balls.
Earlier, New Zealand started the day with 258 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Henry Nichols 32 and Rachin Rabindra 0 runs started the second day. However, Shariful did not allow new batsman Rabindra to be set. Rachin defended the forward by inserting a little inside him. But the ball kissed the bat and went into the hands of the fielder standing on the third slip. Sadman made no mistake there. He gave the taste of the third wicket to Shariful with the catch. Rachin returned with 4 runs.
Mirage got his second and third success with the benefit of wickets. After Kyle Jeminson, his victims are Tim Southee and Neil Wagner. Tim Southee (6) was caught by Mominul at short mid-wicket while flying his ball. New batsman Wegner (0) caught behind the wicket to defend his ball forward. But umpire Chris Grafini did not respond to Bangladesh’s request. Mirage got Wagner’s wicket with the review.
The possibility of a hat-trick was created. But Bolt played watching Mirage’s ball. After Nichols scored 75 runs and became Mominul’s second victim, New Zealand’s first innings was reduced to 328 runs.
