Bangladesh restricted New Zealand to 60, the lowest T20I score for the visitors, in the first game of the five-match Twenty20 series in Dhaka on Wednesday. 

Mustafizur picked up three wickets while Shakib, Nasum, Saifuddin took two wickets each and Mahedi got one.

The match started at 4:00pm at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

The Tigers so far played 10 matches against the Black Caps in this format and lost all, including the one in 2013 at home ground, where they are simply invincible to the Kiwis as far as the ODI cricket is concerned.

Bangladesh: 1 Mohammad Naim, 2 Liton Das, 3 Shakib Al Hasan, 4 Mushfiqur Rahim, 5 Mahmudullah (capt), 6 Nurul Hasan (wk), 7 Afif Hossain, 8 Mahedi Hasan, 9 Mohammad Saifuddin, 10 Nasum Ahmed, 11 Mustafizur Rahman

New Zealand: 1 Rachin Ravindra, 2 Tom Blundell, 3 Will Young, 4 Colin de Grandhomme, 5 Tom Latham (capt&wk), 6 Henry Nicholls, 7 Cole McConchie, 8 Doug Bracewell, 9 Blair Tickner, 10 Jacob Duffy, 11 Ajaz Patel

BDST: 1758 HRS, SEPT 1, 2021
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