Soumya Sarkar broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record of the highest ODI score by a sub-continent batter in New Zealand
New Zealand won the toss and elected to bowl first in the 2nd ODI match at Saxton Oval,Nelson.
BlackCaps were 1-0 up because of the brilliant century of Young in 1st ODI.
Bangladesh didn’t had a good start loosing its first wicket on just 11 runs. New Zealand kept taking wickets at a regular interval.
Once Bangladesh were 80/4 in 16.5 over, Soumya Sarkar and Mushfiqur Rahim took score to 171 before Mushfiqur got out on 45 but Soumya sarkar played brilliant inning and scored 169 of 151 and took his teams total to 291. Jacob Duffy and William ORourke took 3-3 wickets each.
While chasing New zealand got to good start, Rachin Ravindra was very aggressive in start he got out at 45 of 33 balls.
Will young and Henry Nicholls both scored half century , while Tom Latham and Tom Blunder took their team to 7 wicket victory in 46.2 overs with ease and BlackCaps took lead in the series by 2-0
Soumya Sarkar was man of the match for his brilliant Innings.
A comfortable chase for New Zealand sees them take a 2-0 lead in the ODI series against Bangladesh 🏏#NZvBAN | 📝 https://t.co/KV5CY0xN4q pic.twitter.com/jiqwRt5Ioo
— ICC (@ICC) December 20, 2023
