Bangladesh v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Mirpur, 4th day
Bangladesh field under sunny skies
Cricinfo staff
October 28, 2008
Bangladesh chose to field v New Zealand
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The second Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand finally began in Mirpur under sunny skies after rain had washed out the first three days. Mohammad Ashraful, the Bangladesh captain, decided to bowl on a pitch showing numerous cracks. The ground, however, was still damp and the start was delayed to 10.00am. Heavy moisture was also evident after three days of heavy rain.
The match is still winnable according to Daniel Vettori, in which case, New Zealand will have to pile on some runs quickly to ensure they will need to bat only once.
Both teams made one change to their line-ups from the first Test in Chittagong. Bangladesh replaced Naeem Islam with fast bowler Mahbubul Alam, who will be making his debut. New Zealand brought in allrounder Grant Elliott for Jacob Oram, who returned home because of a back problem. Elliott has played only one Test, against England, earlier this year. Ironically, he came into that match because Oram was injured.
New Zealand lead the two-Test series 1-0 and the amount of time lost in this match has made the possibility of a result extremely unlikely.
Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Junaid Siddique, 3 Rajin Saleh, 4 Mohammad Ashraful (capt), 5 Mehrab Hossain jnr, 6 Shakib Al Hasan, 7 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 8 Mashrafe Moratza, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Shahadat Hossain, 11 Mahbubul Alam.
New Zealand: 1 Aaron Redmond, 2 Jamie How, 3 Jesse Ryder, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Brendon McCullum (wk), 6 Daniel Flynn, 7 Grant Elliott, 8 Daniel Vettori (capt), 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Iain O'Brien, 11 Jeetan Patel.
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