Live Cricket Score: Bangladesh vs New Zealand, 2nd Test Day 1 at Dhaka

New Zealand will be looking forward to put up an impressive show at Dhaka after they conceded a 32-run lead to Bangladesh in the first innings of the first Test © AFP

Oct 21, 2013

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Bangladesh take on visitors New Zealand in the second and the final Test at Dhaka on Monday. Mushfiqur Rahim won the toss and elected to bat first.

The hosts were impressive in the first Test of the series as they took a slender lead of 32 in the first innings. Sohag Gazi‘s all-round performance stood out as he scored a century, took six wickets and recorded a hat-trick. Bangladesh will be eager to start winning Test matches consistently. For New Zealand they will be looking to play positive cricket get their confidence before they face tough opponents.

Bangladesh would hope to challenge the higher ranked opponents.

New Zealand made one change bringing Neil Wagner ahead of struggling left-arm spinner Bruce Martin. For Bangladesh Robiul Islam misses out due to injury. In his place Al-Amin Hossain the medium pacer makes his debut for Bangladesh.

Teams:

Bangladesh: Tamin Iqbal, Anamul Haque, Marshall Ayub, Mominul Haque, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (c&wk), Nasir Hossain, Sohag Gazi, Abdur Razzak, Rubel Hossain, Al-Amin Hossain.

New Zealand: Peter Fulton, Hamish Rutherford, Brendon McCullum (c), Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Corey Anderson, BJ Watling (wk), Doug Bracewell, Neil Wagner, Trent Boult, Ish Sodhi.

Catch live scorecard and ball-by-ball commentary of the first day’s play of the second Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand here