ANOTHER INNINGS VICTORY FOR NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand took 65 minutes to capture the last five Bangladesh wickets to complete an innings and 74 runs victory.
Bangladesh were all out for 135.
It took New Zealand only eight balls to make the breakthrough.
Shane Bond had eight runs taken off the opening over, four of them through the covers by Khaled Mahmud and four leg byes.
But in attempting to take a quick single off Daniel Vettori's second ball, Mahmud called Sanwar Hossain through for what was always going to be a tight call.
Craig McMillan pounced on the ball at leg slip and fired a good return to wicket-keeper Adam Parore. Umpire Brent Bowden had to go to the third umpire, but Mahmud was fractionally short of his ground. Bangladesh 75/6.
Bond continued the tight hold he had last evening and off the last ball of his third over he bowled Sanwar middle stump for seven. Bangladesh 79/7.
Hassibal Hossain was unable to get his bat and arms out of the way of a lifting ball from Vettori and wicket-keeper Adam Parore completed yet another sharp catch standing up.
Bangladesh 86/8.
Mashrafi bin-Murtaza treated the good sized crowd to some innovation as he stepped away to leg and speared a ball from Bond over slips, and then stepped away again to guide the ball along the ground through slips for another boundary.
He then performed another quickstep to fire the ball back past Bond for two runs, 10 runs in three balls.
Bond almost had the last say however, when Mashrafi stepped away to leg and didn't play a shot to a ball which flew just over the top of middle stump.
In his next over, Bond had the mortification of seeing the ball lofted over long off for six as the Bangladesh 100 came up off 224 balls.
Mashrafi's confidence continued to grow to the point where he also started to pick off Vettori.
Stephen Fleming eventually decided he needed to make the change and Bond was relieved after his eighth over of the morning with one for 41, and innings figures of four for 54.
Chris Cairns was given the job of tidying up and he only took one over, with the two wickets coming off the last two balls of his over. Mashrafi was bowled by a full toss for 29 off 21 balls while Kahled Mahmud was 19 not out.
Cairns finished with two for 27 and Bond four for 54. Daniel Vettori picked up a second wicket as well to have two for 38.
