Bangladeshi cricket team in New Zealand in 2001–02

Bangladeshi cricket team in New Zealand in 2001–02
	New Zealand	Bangladesh
Dates	18 December 2001 – 29 December 2001
Captains	Stephen Fleming	Khaled Mashud
Test series
Result	New Zealand won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Mark Richardson (226)	Habibul Bashar (100)
Most wickets	Chris Cairns (13)	Manjural Islam Rana (5)

The Bangladesh national cricket team toured New Zealand in November and December 2001 and played a two-match Test series against the New Zealand national cricket team. New Zealand won both Test matches convincingly to take the series 2–0. New Zealand were captained by Stephen Fleming and Bangladesh by Khaled Mashud.^[1][2]

Squads

New Zealand Test	Bangladesh Test
Stephen Fleming (c) Nathan Astle Chris Cairns Craig McMillan Daniel Vettori Lou Vincent Shane Bond Chris Martin Adam Parore (wk) Mathew Sinclair Mark Richardson Matt Horne Chris Drum	Khaled Mashud (c & wk) Habibul Bashar Javed Omar Mohammad Ashraful Khaled Mahmud Mashrafe Mortaza Mohammad Sharif Aminul Islam Sanwar Hossain Al Sahariar Manjural Islam Rana Hasibul Hossain

Test Series

1st Test

18–22 December 2001 scorecard

New Zealand	v	Bangladesh
365/9 (77.1 overs) Mark Richardson 143 (191) Mashrafe Mortaza 3/100 (27 overs)		205 (58.1 overs) Habibul Bashar 61 (84) Shane Bond 4/47 (13.1 overs)
		108 (46.2 overs) Al Sahariar 53 (103) Chris Cairns 7/53 18.2 overs)

New Zealand won by an innings and 52 runs[3] Seddon Park, Hamilton Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Dave Orchard (Aus) Player of the match: Mark Richardson (NZ)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bowl
• No play was possible on Day 1 and 2 due to rain.^[4]
• Sanwar Hossain (Ban) made his test debut.

2nd Test

26–29 December 2001 scorecard

New Zealand	v	Bangladesh
341/6 (88 overs) Mark Richardson 83 (167) Manjural Islam Rana 3/99 (29 overs)		132 (64 overs) Aminul Islam 42 (134) Chris Cairns 3/24 (15 overs)
		135 (41 overs) Habibul Bashar 32 (44) Shane Bond 4/54 (15 overs)

New Zealand won by an innings and 74 runs Basin Reserve, Wellington Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Craig McMillan (NZ)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bowl
• No play was possible on day 2 due to rain.^[5]

References

1. Lynn McConnell. "Victory completed in the manner expected". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
2. Lynn McConnell. "Only a matter of time before Test win No 49 is completed". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
3. Lynn McConell. "Cairns regains best bowling touch to punish Bangladesh". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
4. "NZ happy with outcome on rain-reduced day". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
5. Lynn McConnell. "Bad weather allows Daniel Vettori to put his feet up". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2019.

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