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Ross Taylor’s wicket leaves match in balance against Bangladesh in 2nd Test at Christchurch

Latham got to his 12th Test fifty while Taylor scored 27th of his career.

Ross Taylor resurrected the New Zealand innings with Tom Latham © Getty Images
Ross Taylor resurrected the New Zealand innings with Tom Latham © Getty Images

New Zealand have reached a score of 192 for 4 at the end of the second session against Bangladesh in the second Test at Christchurch. Bangladesh have managed to pull the match in their court despite half-centuries from Ross Taylor (77) and opener Tom Latham (68). The hosts now have Henry Nicholls and Mitchell Santner at the crease playing on 19 and 5 respectively. New Zealand managed to score 122 runs in the second session at around 4.69 runs per over as the majority of the runs came in the initial stages of the second session. New Zealand are still 97 runs short of the Bangladesh total with 6 wickets in hand.

Resuming from the score of 75 or 2 from the first session, New Zealand started off on a great note as both batsmen were well-settled and plundered easy runs. Latham got to his 12th Test fifty while Taylor scored 27th of his career. Moreover, Taylor also became third New Zealand batsmen to get 6,000 Test runs followed by Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum. Both these resurrected the fallen Kiwi innings and went on to put a 106-run partnership for the 3rd wicket in just 24 overs to take their side to a comfortable position.
Live Cricket Scorecard: Bangladesh vs New Zealand, 2nd Test Christchurch

Both batted out the first hour of the second session brilliantly and it seemed like both would get to the three-digit personal milestone quite easily as they cleanly hitting the ball. But completely against the run of play, Taskin got the wicket of Latham. It was a short and wide delivery from Taskin which Latham flung his bat at horizontally eventually edging it to keeper. Henry Nicholls walked in and seemed quite content playing the second fiddle to the well-settled Taylor who played some big shots in his stay. Taylor and Nicholls played sensibly but Mehedi struck just a few overs before the Tea was to be taken. It was a tossed up delivery which Taylor tried to hit over midwicket but ended up finding the Taijul Islam the substitute fielder.

These two wickets of well-settled batsmen have got the visitors back in the game and now it remains to be seen how the final session of the day pans out. Bangladesh will be hoping to get 1-2 quick wickets early in the session to maintain their grip while New Zealand would be hoping for Nicholls and Santner to stay and score runs as much as they can before the day ends.

Brief scores:

New Zealand 192 for 4 (Ross Taylor 77, Tom Latham 68; Kamrul Islam Rabbi 2 for 47) trail Bangladesh 289 (Soumya Sarkar 86, Shakib Al Hasan 59; Tim Southee 5 for 94) by 97 runs

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