New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner took 4 wickets earlier than a rearguard batting effort helped the hosts beat Bangladesh by 17 runs by way of the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern (DLS) technique within the rain-hit third and closing Twenty20 worldwide on Sunday to stage the collection.
Santner elected to bowl after profitable the toss and took 4-16 to assist dismiss Bangladesh for a modest 110 at Mount Maunganui, leaving the vacationers with a frightening process to seal their maiden collection victory of any sort in New Zealand.
New Zealand collapsed to 49-5 in response after Mahedi Hasan and Shoriful Islam struck well timed blows, however Santner (18 not out) and Jimmy Neesham (28 not out) held their nerve to take them to inside 16 runs of victory when heavy rain halted play.
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New Zealand was forward of the DLS par rating of 78 at that stage earlier than the sport was finally referred to as off.
Bangladesh sealed a five-wicket win within the collection opener in Napier on Wednesday for its first T20I win on New Zealand soil, 4 days after beating the hosts within the final sport of the three-match one-day worldwide collection which they misplaced 2-1.
The second T20I was washed out with no outcome. The collection was a part of each groups’ preparations for the T20 World Cup within the West Indies and United States in June subsequent yr.