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COLOMBO, Sept 23: Bangladesh produced a woeful batting display as they were bowled out for 77 by New Zealand to lose the final pool match of the ICC Champions Trophy by 167 runs Monday.
Chasing 245 for victory, Khaled Mashud’s side were shot out in 19.3 overs to record their fifth score of under 100 in 55 One-day Internationals.
Fast bowlers Shane Bond (four for 21), Jacob Oram (two for 32) and Kyle Mills (two for 13) took full advantage of some tentative batting, with seven players either caught by wicketkeeper Lou Vincent or in the slip cordon alongside him.
Bangladesh had done reasonably well in the first session to restrict New Zealand to 244 for nine after Mashud had won the toss.
Several players became established but only Mathew Sinclair (70) showed the application required to pass fifty on a slow, turning pitch well-suited to the slower Bangladesh bowlers.
Opener Al-Shahriar was lbw playing no shot to Bond in the very first over, giving him a grand total of three balls faced and no runs for the tournament, and things got rapidly worse from them on.
Mohammad Ashraful (1) was snapped up by Scott Styris in an expectant slip cordon and Bond continued his destruction of the top-order as he removed Alok Kapali (2), well caught by Fleming at first slip, and Mashud (1), caught behind driving airily.
Oram got in on the action when he had Javed Oram (1) brilliantly caught one-handed by Nathan Astle above his head at second slip and, after a few desperate strokes by Tushar Imran (20), he joined the procession, edging the same bowler also to Astle.
Khaled Mahmud (11) and Fahim Muntasir (5) both fell to Kyle Mills when he was introduced into the attack after Bond’s four-over opening burst had yielded four for 15.
And after a few defiant blows by Mohammad Rafique (17) and Manjural Islam (10), both perished trying to launch Daniel Vettori’s left-arm spin out of the ground.
New Zealand batted carelessly with Fleming (31), Styris (26) and Harris (26) all getting established before falling before going on to a major score.
NEW ZEALAND:
S.P. Fleming c Talha b K. Mahmud 31
N.J. Astle c Kapali b Manjural 5
M.S. Sinclair c Rafique b Ashraful 70
L. Vincent c K. Mashud b K. Mahmud 1
S.B. Styris run out 26
C.Z. Harris c K. Mashud b Ashraful 26
J.D.P. Oram c Tushar b Ashraful 30
D.L. Vettori c Fahim b Manjural 16
K.D. Mills not out 3
S.E. Bond st K. Mashud b Rafique 8
P.M. Hitchcock not out 2
EXTRAS (B-1, LB-9, W-14, NB-2) 26
TOTAL (for nine wkts, 50 overs) 244
FALL OF WKTS: 1-11, 2-77, 3-79, 4-119, 5-167, 6-198, 7-216, 8-232, 9-242.
BOWLING: Manjural Islam 8-1-30-2 (1nb, 4w); Talha Jubair 5-0-46-0 (9w); Khaled Mahmud 10-0-41-2 (1nb, 1w); Mohammad Rafique 10-0-39-1; Fahim Muntasir 10-0-40-0; Alok Kapali 2-0-12-0; Mohammad Ashraful 5-1-26-3.
BANGLADESH:
Javed Omar c Astle b Oram 1
Al-Shahriar lbw b Bond 0
Mohammad Ashraful c Styris b Bond 1
Tushar Imran c Astle b Oram 20
Alok Kapali c Fleming b Bond 2
Khaled Mashud c Vincent b Bond 1
Khaled Mahmud c Fleming b Mills 11
Mohammad Rafique c Harris b Vettori 17
Fahim Muntasir c Vincent b Mills 5
Manjural Islam b Vettori 10
Talha Jubair not out 1
EXTRAS (LB-1, W-4, NB-3) 8
TOTAL (all out, 19.3 overs) 77
FALL OF WKTS: 1-2, 2-8, 3-8, 4-16, 5-19, 6-37, 7-46, 8-56, 9-70.
BOWLING: Bond 5-0-21-4 (1nb, 3w); Oram 6-1-32-2 (2nb); Mills 5-0-13-2 (1w); Vettori 3.3-1-10-2.
UMPIRES: E.A.R. de Silva (Sri Lanka) and D.R. Shepherd (England).
TV UMPIRE: S. Venkataraghavan (India).
MATCH REFEREE: G.R. Viswanath (India).
MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Shane Bond.—Reuters
