Bangladesh’s historic win over New Zealand, trampled by 8 wickets in the first test match

Ban vs NZ: Bangladesh has created history by defeating New Zealand by 8 wickets in the first match of the Test series. In this match played at Bay Oval, New Zealand, New Zealand had given a target of 40 runs to Bangladesh. Bangladesh team led by Mominul Haque achieved this target by losing 2 wickets. Captain Mominul Haque remained unbeaten on 13 and Mushfiqur Rahman on 5. Bangladesh’s first win over New Zealand in New Zealand in any format. Apart from this, he defeated the Kiwi team in a test match for the first time. With this historic win, Bangladesh has secured 12 points in the World Test Championship 2023 (WTC 2023). Bangladesh have taken a 1-0 lead in the 2-match Test series.

Batting first, New Zealand scored 328 runs. In reply, Bangladesh scored 458 runs and took a 130-run lead over the Kiwis. In the second innings, Bangladesh bowlers dominated the New Zealand batsmen and bundled out the entire team for 169 runs. Bangladesh got the target of 40 runs, which they achieved by losing 2 wickets. The hero of Bangladesh’s victory was Ibadat Hussain. He took 6 wickets for 46 runs in the second innings of the Kiwi team. Bangladesh had not registered a single win in New Zealand so far. They never even came close to winning in Test matches in New Zealand, even after scoring a mammoth score of 595/8 in 2017.

First win v New Zealand in New Zealand (in all formats)
First Test win v New Zealand
First away Test win against a team in the top five of the ICC Rankings
12 crucial #WTC23 points!

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Bangladesh’s first win in SENA countries

Before this match, Bangladesh had not registered a single win in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) countries. Bangladesh performed well in these countries, but they could never win. Bangladesh dominated New Zealand in every session of the Bay Oval.

After 9 years, a Bangladeshi fast bowler took 5 wickets

After 2013, no bowler from Bangladesh has taken 5 wickets in a Test match. 9 years ago Robiul Islam took 5 wickets in Zimbabwe.

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