New Zealand blow away Bangladesh by 65 runs in ultimate T20I, clear sweep collection

Rookie Finn Allen made 71 from 29 balls as New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 65 runs on Thursday within the third Twenty20 cricket worldwide, diminished by rain to 10 overs a facet.
Allen, who solely two matches in the past made a golden duck on debut, raced to a half-century from 18 balls — the second-fastest by a New Zealander in T20 internationals — as New Zealand made 141-4 after being despatched in.
Bangladesh didn’t critically problem and was bowled out for 76 in 9.3 overs.
Leg-spinner Todd Astle, taking part in solely his fourth T20 worldwide for New Zealand since 2016 and his first in virtually 18 months, took 4-13 from the 2 overs he was allowed. In the diminished match, bowlers have been permitted two overs every and the ability performs have been solely three overs.
Rain delayed the beginning till after 9 p.m., leaving simply sufficient time to cram in a 20-over match. In its restricted kind, Thursday”s match got here right down to pure energy hitting, which is New Zealand”s forte.
Allen placed on 85 in a gap stand of simply 5.4 overs with Martin Guptill, who made 44 from 19 balls. There have been later contributions of 14 from six balls from Glenn Phillips and 11 from six balls from Daryl Mitchell.

“It was good fun,” Allen mentioned.
“We wanted to give ourselves a bit of a chance at the start and then take it from there. I just tried to look at it as another game of cricket, stick to my processes and keep watching the ball, trying to hit it hard as I’ve tried to do all season.”
Allen’s partnership with Guptill set the tone for the New Zealand innings. Guptill confronted the entire first two overs making 23 runs. Allen then hit three fours and a six within the third over to take New Zealand to 43-0 on the finish of the ability play.
New Zealand was 69-0 after 5 overs. Guptill hit two sixes and a 4 from the primary three balls of the sixth over earlier than falling to Mahedi Hasan.
Allen’s 50 got here within the seventh over with eight fours and two sixes and New Zealand”s 100 adopted from 6.5 overs.
Phillips and Mitchell saved up the tempo earlier than Allen was out within the ultimate over.
Tim Southee dismissed Soumya Sarkar (10) and Liton Das (0) with the final two balls of the primary over, growing the strain on Bangladesh, which wanted to attain at greater than 14 runs per over.
Astle then eliminated Mohammad Naim (19) and Najmul Hossain Shanto within the fourth over and Afif Hossain and Mahedi Hasan within the sixth over because the Bangladesh innings fell aside.
Southee missed his hat trick however completed with 3-15 and the speedsters Adam Milne and Lockie Ferguson, working in tandem for the primary time, every took a wicket. Phillips once more made a priceless contribution together with his off-spin.
“We’re not playing good cricket in batting and fielding,” mentioned Das, the Bangladesh captain.
“We bowled well every game. In the sub-continent, we are a good team, but on a bouncy wicket we are a little on the back foot.”
New Zealand had already clinched the three-match collection by profitable the primary match by 66 runs and the second 28 runs.
New Zealand has now gained all seven of its house collection this summer time, encompassing T20 collection in opposition to the West Indies, Australia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, a one-day collection in opposition to Bangladesh and Test collection in opposition to Pakistan and the West Indies.
In complete, New Zealand gained 17 matches and misplaced three. Its 2-0 Test collection wins over Pakistan and the West Indies propelled it into the World Test Championship ultimate in June in opposition to India at Somerset.
New Zealand additionally elevated its profitable streak at house in opposition to Bangladesh to 31-0 throughout all three codecs.