Spinners Mehidy Hasan and Taijul Islam shared 5 wickets between them to assist Bangladesh claw their means again into competition with New Zealand struggling at 55-5 in Wednesday’s opener to the second Take a look at. An astonishing 15 wickets fell within the first day’s play in Dhaka, with the hosts all out for simply 172 in an innings the place Mushfiqur Rahim turned simply the second batsman in Take a look at historical past to be dismissed for obstructing the sector. Mehidy and Taijul then reduce a swathe by way of New Zealand within the closing session earlier than unhealthy gentle prompted an early end.

Mehidy scalped Devon Conway (11), Kane Williamson (13) and Tom Blundell (0) in between Taijul’s dismissal of Tom Latham (4) and Henry Nicholls (1) to obliterate the vacationers’ early benefit.

“We believed that we may make life tough for them if we bowled in the fitting areas,” Mehidy stated after the day’s play.

“We struggled towards their spinners. We all know these circumstances fairly nicely, in order that gave our bowlers the arrogance that we may take extra benefit from this pitch.”

Daryl Mitchell was batting on 12 alongside Glenn Phillips on 5 when stumps have been drawn on the Sher-e-Bangla Nationwide Stadium, with 9 overs remaining.

Mitchell Santner and Phillips earlier took 3-65 and 3-31 respectively after the hosts opted to bat, whereas Ajaz Patel claimed 2-54 for the vacationers as they dominated of their bid to degree the two-match sequence.

‘Going to be a scrap’

“We noticed the ball going loads, so I believe if it dries up a little bit bit, it’d begin to flatten out,” Santner stated of the spin-obliging pitch.

“We all know it may be a scrap, and we simply need to attempt to apply ourselves.”

Mushfiqur top-scored with 35 after Bangladesh opted to bat, serving to the hosts recuperate from a dismal 47-4.

However he then suffered a uncommon dismissal within the second session when, after defending a supply from Kyle Jamieson within the forty first over, he instinctively swatted the ball away together with his hand.

England’s Leonard Hutton was the one different batsman to be dismissed for obstructing the sector in Take a look at cricket, throughout a match towards South Africa on the Oval in 1951.

Mushfiqur’s out would have beforehand been thought-about a “dealt with the ball” dismissal, however a change within the legal guidelines in 2017 introduced the class below “obstructing the sector”.

His 57-run partnership with Shahadat Hossain had helped the hosts recuperate from the spin demolition of their prime order by Santner and Patel.

However after Mushfiqur returned to the pavilion, Phillips dismissed Shahadat (31) and Nurul Hasan (seven) to place Bangladesh into additional bother.

Tim Southee claimed the final wicket and didn’t concede a run in his 5.5 overs.

Earlier, Zakir Hasan and Mahmudul Hasan placed on 29 runs within the opening stand earlier than a disastrous 5 overs noticed Bangladesh lose 4 wickets for simply 18 runs.

Bangladesh are chasing a first-ever Take a look at sequence win over the Black Caps after their 150-run victory in Sylhet final week.

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