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In a historic achievement, the Bangladesh cricket team achieved their first-ever Test match victory against New Zealand at home at Sylhet Interꦅnational Cricket Stadium on Friday, December 2. The hosts triumphed by 150 runs✅, claiming a 1-0 lead in the two-game series.
New Zealand, chasing a target of 332, were bowled out for 181, with Taijul Islam delivering a stellar performance, bagging a crucial six-wicket haul (6/75) that played a pivotal role in Bangladesh’s historic win.
Taijul Islam’s six-wicket haul paves the way for Bangladesh’s historic win
During the fourth day, New Zealand found themselves struggling at 113/7 by stumps, still requiring an improbable 219 runs for victory. Daryl Mitchell was the lone 🍨survivor from the top six, and the situation seemed dire for the visitors.
On the fifth day of the Test match, Mitchell showcased resilience as he reached his ninth Test fifty. However, his steadfast innings was brought to an end when he failed to connect a sweep off Nayeem Hasan, resulting in a well-taken tumbling catch by Taijul Islam at deep square leg. This dismissal provided Bangladesh with a crucial breakthrough, further shaping the course of the fixture. The last Kiwi wicket fall, in the form of Ish Sodhi, marked Taijul’s sixth victim.
Summary of the game between Bangladesh and New Zealand
In the earlier stages of the match, Bangladesh posted 310 runs in their first innings, while New Zealand, led by their evergreen batter Kane Williamson, secured a seven-run lead in reply, finishing on 317. Bangladesh’s second innings featured a score of 338, with their first time Test captain, Najmul Hossain Shanto, celebrating the occasion by scꦺoring a century. This set the visitors a challenging target of 341 for victory.
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Bangladesh’s strong performance in World Test Championship 2023-2025 Points Table
With this historic win, Bangladesh now accumulates 12 points in the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-2🐎5 points table. Notably, their only other WTC victory was also against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui at the beginning of 2022.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
First Test win vs NZ on home soil! Congratulations 👏🏾 Impressive captaincy ඣdebut from Shanto, and Tai🧸jul was superb throughout the Test 🙌🏽
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
Congratulat🌱ions to Bangladesh for the first ever Test match win over New Zealand at Home.♎ One match to go boys 👍
— Litton Das (@LittonOfficial)
"A remarkable achievement for Bangladesh, defeating New Zealand in both home and away Test matches. A testament to their 🔥growing strength in cricket."
— Shashank Singh (@RccShashank)
Since 2018:
23 bowlers have taken 50 or more wickets in Home Tests…None of them have taken more 5 wicket or 10 wicket hauls tꦫhan Taijul♚ Islam
He has taken 3 wickets per inning during this period in Home Tests which is 2nd best(Only behind Prabath Jayasuriya)…ꦚ
— Abhishek AB (@ABsay_ek)
Bangladesh win and go 1-0 up:
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
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Defe🐼at in Sylhet. Focus shifts to the second Test in Dhaka starting on Wednesday. Catch up on all scores | ▨📲
— BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS)
Congratulations to Bangladesh! They have made his🃏tory 🇧🇩🔥🔥
Bangladesh has defeated New Zealand for the first time ever in Test cricket on home turf 👏🏼👏🏼ꦗ
— Anas Chudhary (@anas_chudharyy)
A memorable day for Bangladesh, as they get a first Test win at h🅘ome against New Zealand 🙌
Taijul Islam the star with a ten-wicket match haul as Najmul𝔍 Hossain Shanto begins Test captaincy with a ✌🏻
— Samina Hafeez Malik (@SaminaHMalik)
Bangladesh defeat New Zealand by 150 runs in the 1st Test at Sylhet – their 1st victory v New Zealand at Home and their 2nd victory overall following their 8 wkt win at Mount Maunganui on 5 January 2022.
— Arthur_S (@allanholloway)
Bangladesh won against New Zealand. It's historic test match win for the home side. Great job done by . Bad luck @BLACKCAPSbut but best wishes for the next game in
— Emdadul Haque (@emdadlaw)
Bangladesh won first test vs New Zeala🐓nd in Sylhet. Congratulations Bangladesh 🇧🇩.
10 wick🤡ets for Taijul. Century from captꦿain Shanto. Bowlers supporting each other.
Bowlers win you test matches.
— Khalilur Rahman (@Khalilur_77)
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