Williamson leads New Zealand to gentle win
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NAPIER: Kane Williamson belted 73 off 55 balls as New Zealand cruised to a six-wicket win over Bangladesh in a initial T20I in Napier on Tuesday.
New Zealand cut down their 142-run aim with dual overs to gangling as captain Williamson hold a innings together with support from Colin de Grandhomme after a initial 4 wickets fell cheaply.
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New Zealand were 4 for 62 when De Grandhomme went to a double and combined 41 off 22 in an 81-run mount with Williamson.
It was Williamson’s top T20 innings, one run some-more than his dominant 72 opposite Pakistan a year ago, while De Grandhomme’s prior best was 8 opposite Zimbabwe 4 years back.
The gentle win continued New Zealand’s mastery of Bangladesh after winning a 3 50-over matches final week.
Bangladesh, looking to spin a tables in a shortest form of a game, opted to bat on a prosaic wicket after winning a toss though could usually conduct 141 for eight.
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Mahmudullah, who had been out of form in a ODIs, came right with a hit of 52 in a usually innings of note with Mosaddek Hossain adding 20 and New Zealand’s 18 wides was a third top writer to their total.
Mahmudullah kept out a yorker to equivocate a hat-trick with a initial round he faced after New Zealand debutant Lockie Ferguson took a wickets of Sabbir Rahman and Soumya Sarkar with his initial dual deliveries.
Ferguson also bowled Mahmudullah in his final over to finish with 3 for 32 while associate debutant Ben Wheeler took dual for 22.
Bangladesh felt they were still in a diversion when top-order large hitters, Neil Broom, Colin Munro, Corey Anderson and Tom Bruce were all private cheaply.
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Broom was out for 6 when Shakib AlHasan pulled off a marvellous as he sprinted around a range to take a ball.
He afterwards flicked it in a atmosphere before movement took him opposite a wire and afterwards stepped behind into a margin of play to finish a catch.
Mustafizur Rahman, who private Munro but scoring, was a many careful of a Bangladesh bowlers with one for 21 off his 4 overs.
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