Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur rescue Bangladesh against New Zealand

Bangladesh 271/5 (48.2 overs) New Zealand 270/8 (50 overs) Bangladesh emerged victorious over New Zealand in the final match of the Ireland Tri-Nation Series on Wednesday. New Zealand batted first and set a 271 run target, after Bangladesh won the toss in Dublin and for the sixth time out of six chose to field. Mushfiqur Rahim, 45 runs off 45 balls, and Mahmudullah, 46 runs off 36 balls, finished off the game in the penultimate over, with Mahmudallah scoring the winning runs with a four. Soumya Sarkar, who opened the batting with Tamim, was caught out for a golden duck on the third ball of the first over, having been surprised by New Zealand's decision to open the bowling with off-spinner Jeetan Patel. Tamim had hit a six and taken a single off the first two balls of the over. Tamim himself was caught out off the bowling of Santner on the last ball of the 27th over, after a confident 65 runs off 80 balls. He was replaced at the crease by Mosaddek Hossain. Subsequently, Sabbir Rahman, in for Soumya, got himself run out on the second ball of the 29th over, after a communication mishap with Mosaddek when the former was on  65 runs off 83 balls. Mushfiqur Rahim came in at third down. Mosaddek followed Sabbir back to the pavilion minutes later, dismissed lbw off the bowling of Jeetan Patel in the 30th over when on 10 runs off 13 balls, bringing Shakib Al Hasan to the crease. Shakib, however, was unable to emulate the long stay of Tamim and Sabbir, getting caught out off the bowling of Bennett on the first ball of the 39th over after scoring 19 runs off 32 balls. Mahmudullah then came in and finished off the game with Mushfiqur. Earlier, Ross Taylor, 60 runs off 56 balls, and Jeetan Patel, 7 runs off 7 balls, finished the innings for the Black caps. Wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi, who opened the batting with Latham, was caught out off the bowling of Mustafizur Rahman in the fourth over, after having scored just 2 runs off 5 balls. Neil Broom, in at first down, was next to be dismissed after he swept a ball from Nasir Hossain straight to the hands of Mashrafe Mortaza when on 63 runs off 76 balls in the 29th over. Ross Taylor replaced him at the crease. New Zealand captain Tom Latham, 84 runs off 92 balls, followed Broom back to the pavilion shortly afterwards, when he was bowled out by Nasir Hossain on the first ball of the 31st over. Corey Anderson, in for the departing Latham, was then caught out off the bowling of Shakib Al Hasan on the third ball of the 39th over, after scoring a quickfire 24 runs off 32 balls. Jimmy Neesham, who had taken to the crease for Anderson, scored 6 runs off 10 balls before he too was dismissed, caught out off the bowling of Mashrafe in the 42nd over. His replacement Mitchell Santner was then dismissed in the very next over, bowled out by Shakib after facing 6 balls without troubling the scorers. The 44th over kept up the trend set in the 42nd and 43rd, with Mashrafe taking the wicket of new batsman Munro, caught behind, after he had scored just 1 run off 2 balls. Matt Henry, 5 runs off 14 balls, was then bowled out by Rubel Hossain in the 48th over, before Patel and Taylor batted out the innings. Bangladesh made one change from their last game, with Nasir Hossain replacing Sunzamul Islam, while New Zealand made three changes from the team that beat Ireland on Sunday to win the series with a third straight victory. In come Jimmy Neesham, Hamish Bennett and for the first time in the series Jeetan Patel, who has joined the squad from Warwickshire. They replace Scott Kuggeleijn, Adam Milne and Ish Sodhi. There was a minute's silence before the match in memory of the victims of the Manchester concert suicide bombing on Monday.

Teams

BangladeshMashrafe Mortaza (capt), Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Mushfiqur Rahim (wkt), Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Nasir Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel HossainNew ZealandTom Latham (capt), Luke Ronchi (wkt), Neil Broom, Ross Taylor, Corey Anderson, Jimmy Neesham, Colin Monro, Mitchell Santner, Jeetan Patel, Matt Henry, Hamish Bennett