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NZ V Bangladesh 1st Test Mount Maunganui Day 3
NZ 328 (108.1 overs) Conway 122 Nicholls 75 Young 52 Shoriful Islam 3-69 Miraz 3-86
Bangladesh 401-6 (156 overs) Mominul 88 das 86 Joy 78 Shanto 64 Boult 3-61 Wagner 2-98

South Africa v India 2nd Test Johannesburg Day 1 Close
IND won the toss & elected to field
IND 202 (63.1 overs) Rahul 50 Ashwin 46 Jansen 4-31 Rabada 3-64 Olivier 3-64
SA 35-1 (8 overs)

Pakistan's Mohammad Haveez has announced his retirement from International cricket, aged 41. He will continue to play Franchise cricket.
He's played 55 Test, 218 ODI's & 119 T20I's, with 12,780 runs across all formats. He has ben awarded 32 Player of the Match Awards, the 4th highest for his country, behind Shahid Afridi (43) Wasim Akram (39) & Inzaman ul Haq (33), he also won 9 Player of the Series Awards in all formats.

NZ v Bangladesh Ist Test Mount Maunganui Day 4
NZ 328 & 169 (73.4 overs) Young 69 Taylor 40 Hossain 6-46 Taskin 3-36
BAN 458 (176,2 overs) Miraz 47 Boult 4-85 & 42-2 (16,5 overs)
Bangladesh won by 8 wickets

SA V IND 1st Test Johannesburg day 3 latest
IND 202 & 266 (60.1 overs) Rahane 58 Pujara 53 Vihari 40 Jansen 3-67 Rabada 3-77 Ngidi 3-43
SA 229 (79.4 overs) Petersen 62 Bavuma 51 Thakur 7-61 & SA Yet to bat
Target 240

Bangladesh have sealed a famous away test match win in New Zealand by 8 wickets.

WOW!!

^^ Bangladesh don't win many Test Matches, & this is only their sixth win away from home, the other 5 wins came against poor opposition. This was their first World Test Championship win, after losing 8 out of 9 matches in the previous 2 year cycle.
New Zealand are the current Test World Champions & are Ranked 2nd behind India, Bangladesh are ranked 9th just above.
New Zealand where missing captain Williamson, but otherwise fielded a strong side.

Stat Buster
Bangladesh maiden Test victory over New Zealand, after 12 defeats from 15 matches.
Head to head record in New Zealand - Tests NZ won 9 Bangladesh won 1 All Formats NZ won 32 Bangladesh won 1

The last Asian team to beat NZ at home were Pakistan in 2011, they won their next 21 matches

NZ had a streak of 17 home Tests without defeat, & a run of 8 home series wins before today.

In the 2nd Test South Africa finished day 3 on 118-2, chasing a target of 240.

South Africa reached their target losing only three wickets to level the series.

(06-01-2022 16:04 )stowman Wrote:  South Africa reached their target losing only three wickets to level the series.

Decent effort from SA. India I reckon expected to get more from the track than turned out to be the case. It was still a very challenging surface to play on for sure (more pitches should be like this one - all of them in fact - allowing for local factors), so S.A can take a lot away from this match, given their relative slump in recent times!

Already mentioned in another post from you Booms, but huge congrats to Bangladesh for their win versus NZ. Much deserved and highly merited! A little of the output from comms - I thought - tried to diminish their achievement by concentrating too much on NZ supposed deficiencies (like England in many ways) rather than bigging up the Tigers!

Hopefully not another false dawn, and Bangladesh can follow it up with more of the same. It certainly should end this arrogant complacency shown by many higher ranked nations, when about to play them.

My god how NZ need the worlds best batsman back in the ranks in K Williamson (i know rankings say different) I am nervous though about how people are describing the elbow injury he has, and just how long he will be out (surgery recovery not withstanding) Don't want to think we may have seen the last of the great man, but not certain at all!