New Zealand cricket team in Bangladesh in 2008–09

The New Zealand cricket team toured Bangladesh for two Test matches and three One Day International (ODI) matches in 2008–09. Bangladesh were under the captaincy of Mohammad Ashraful and the New Zealanders were led by Daniel Vettori. Starting on 9 October 2008, the New Zealanders won the ODI series 2-1 and the following Test series 1–0.

New Zealand cricket team in Bangladesh in 2008-09
	Bangladesh	New Zealand
Dates	7 October 2008 – 29 October 2008
Captains	Mohammad Ashraful	Daniel Vettori
Test series
Result	New Zealand won the 2-match series 1–0
Most runs	Shakib Al Hasan 125	Jesse Ryder 169
Most wickets	Shakib Al Hasan 10	Daniel Vettori 14
Player of the series	Daniel Vettori (NZ)
One Day International series
Results	New Zealand won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Junaid Siddique 118	Ross Taylor 138
Most wickets	Mashrafe Mortaza 7	Kyle Mills 6
Player of the series	Jacob Oram (NZ)

ODI series

1st ODI

9 October (scorecard)

New Zealand  201/9 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 202/3 (45.3 overs)
Jacob Oram 57 (89) Mashrafe Mortaza 4/44 (10 overs)		Junaid Siddique 85 (139) Scott Styris 1/23 (6 overs)

Bangladesh won by 7 wickets Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Umpires: Daryl Harper (AUS) & Nadir Shah (BAN) Player of the match: Junaid Siddique

2nd ODI

11 October (scorecard)

New Zealand  212/9 (50.0 overs)	v	Bangladesh 137 all out (42.4 overs)
Jacob Oram 75* (101) Syed Rasel 3/23 (10 overs)		Mohammad Ashraful 40 (120) Kyle Mills 3/13 (6.4 overs)

New Zealand won by 75 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Umpires: Daryl Harper (AUS) & Nadir Shah (BAN) Player of the match: Jacob Oram

3rd ODI

14 October (scorecard)

New Zealand  249/7 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 170/8 (50 overs)
Ross Taylor 103 (119) Jacob Oram 2/16 (8 overs)		Naeem Islam 46 (106) Shakib Al Hasan 2/41 (10 overs)

New Zealand won by 79 runs Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Enamul Haque (BAN) & Daryl Harper (AUS) Player of the match: Ross Taylor (NZ)

Test series

1st test

17–21 October (scorecard)

Bangladesh	v	New Zealand
245 (122.1 overs) Mehrab Hossain jnr 83 (179) Daniel Vettori 5/59 (36 overs)		171 (64.5 overs) Daniel Vettori 55* (82) Shakib Al Hasan 7/36 (25.5 overs)
242 (107.3 overs) Shakib Al Hasan 71 (151) Daniel Vettori 4/74 (42 overs)		317/7 (137.5 overs) Aaron Redmond 79 (237) Abdur Razzak 3/93 (50 overs)

New Zealand won by 3 wickets Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Daniel Vettori (NZ)

2nd test

25–29 October (scorecard)

New Zealand	v	Bangladesh
262/6 dec. (75 overs) Jesse Ryder 91(140) M Ashraful 1/7 (3 overs)		169/9 dec. (58.1 overs) Shakib Al Hasan 49(87) Daniel Vettori 5/66 (19 overs)
79/1 (19 overs) Jesse Ryder* 39(84) M Mortaza 1/14 (5 overs)

Match drawn Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Daniel Vettori (NZ)

• No play on days 1, 2 & 3

Tour match

Bangladesh Cricket Board XI vs New Zealand

7 October

Bangladesh Cricket Board XI	v	New Zealand

Match abandoned without a ball bowled Fatullah Osmani Stadium, Fatullah

External links

• Cricinfo page on the tour