Bevon Jacobs hit his maiden half-century as the Black Caps recovered from a shaky start to beat Bangladesh by six wickets in the rain-hit third T20 overnight, concluding the three-match series at 1-1.<\/p>\n
Jacobs’ 31-ball 62 not out, including five fours and three sixes, helped his side reach 104-4 in 11.4 overs, chasing down Bangladesh\u2019s 102 all out in 14.2 overs.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh had won the first match by six wickets. The second match was rained out.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, pacer Shoriful Islam gave Bangladesh a glimmer of hope by claiming three wickets for just four runs in his first two overs as New Zealand was at struggling 25-3 in fourth over.<\/p>\n
Offspinner Mahedi Hasan further put the visitors in trouble when he dismissed stand-in skipper Nick Kelly, leaving New Zealand 33-4.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh skipper Litton Das continued with Shoriful, but Jacobs struck him for consecutive boundaries to ease the pressure. The pacer eventually finished with 3-19.<\/p>\n
Jacobs brought up his fifty off 29 balls. He sealed the win with a boundary and a six in quick succession.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh\u2019s innings was interrupted by rain after New Zealand had put them into bat first.<\/p>\n
The rain halted the game for more than two hours, reducing it to a 15-over game.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh had already slumped to 50-3 in 6.4 overs, losing first three wickets in 14 balls before the rain arrived.<\/p>\n
However, after the resumption of the game, Bangladesh\u2019s strategy to hit every ball didn\u2019t serve it well.<\/p>\n
It paid the price by losing the last seven wickets for 39 runs in 35 balls.<\/p>\n
Towhid Hridoy was the top-scorer for the side with 33 while Das made 26. Opener Saif Hassan chipped-in-with 16.<\/p>\n
Apart from them, no one could make it double digits.<\/p>\n
Pacer Josh Clarkson registered his career-best 3-9 in two overs, becoming the standout bowler for New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Ben Sears and Nathan Smith grabbed two wickets apiece to support him in ripping out Bangladesh innings.<\/p>\n
Leg-spinner Ish Sodhi took 1-22 to become the top wicket-taker for New Zealand with 165, going past Tim Southee\u2019s 164.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bevon Jacobs hit his maiden half-century as the Black Caps recovered from a shaky start to beat Bangladesh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6429,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-409469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black-caps","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409469","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=409469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}