{"id":384377,"date":"2026-04-17T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:14:09","slug":"black-caps-open-bangladesh-series-with-tight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384377\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps open Bangladesh series with tight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholls then anchored the innings with a composed 68 off 83 balls, hitting nine fours for his 17th ODI half-century. The 34-year-old stitched together useful partnerships with Will Young (30) and captain Tom Latham (14) to steady the innings after the early setback.<\/p>\n

Young survived an early drop on one off Shoriful but fell to leg-spinner Rishad Hossain while attempting a reverse sweep, edging to slip.<\/p>\n

Rishad struck again soon after, dismissing Nicholls with another failed reverse sweep to leave New Zealand under pressure.<\/p>\n

Latham and Muhammad Abbas failed to build on the platform, but all-rounder Dean Foxcroft counter-attacked with a brisk 59 off 58 balls, featuring eight fours, to lift the visitors past 200. He was eventually bowled by Nahid Rana attempting a yorker-length delivery.<\/p>\n

Nathan Smith\u2019s unbeaten 21 off 22 balls provided a late boost as New Zealand reached a competitive total.<\/p>\n

Shoriful finished with 2-27, while Taskin Ahmed and Rishad Hossain claimed two wickets apiece for Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

In the chase opener Saif Hassan made 57 while handy scores from middle order batsmen Towhid Hridoy (55), Litton Das (46) and Afif Hossain (27) saw Bangladesh at 184-4 before they lost their final six wickets for 37 runs.<\/p>\n

Tickner took the last four wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholls then anchored the innings with a composed 68 off 83 balls, hitting nine fours for his 17th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[199472,11497,7022,42574,305,199473,111,139,69,5493,1864,1963,213,165,5654,8982,6027,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-384377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-26run","9":"tag-bangladesh","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-caps","12":"tag-have","13":"tag-mirpur","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-open","18":"tag-opened","19":"tag-series","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-their","22":"tag-tight","23":"tag-victory","24":"tag-win","25":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}