Taskin Ahmed, the Bangladesh quick bowler pulled off a stunner within the second T20I in opposition to New Zealand in Napier on Tuesday when he dived to take a powerful one-handed catch at quick fine-leg to eliminate Martin Guptill.
The second of magic got here within the sixth over of the New Zealand innings when the veteran opener was batting on 21 and dealing with Mohammad Saifuddin.
The pacer bowled a size supply which Guptill tried to flick in the direction of the fine-leg boundary solely to satisfy a superb and diving Taskin on the best way. Standing contained in the 30-yard circle, he jumped to his left and caught his left hand out and held onto a sensational catch. The ball had completely flown via Guptill’s bat and Taskin did a outstanding job in managing to pouch the catch in his non-bowling hand.
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The complete workforce burst out in pleasure and everybody was left in awe of the beautiful piece of labor by Taskin within the subject. The catch is already doing the rounds to grow to be a robust contender for the ‘Catch of the Year’ award.
Bangladesh had gained the toss and elected to subject with New Zealand posting 173/5 in 17.5 overs in a rain-hit match. Glenn Phillip was the star batsmen hammering 58 off simply 31 deliveries. The DLS technique got here into play and Bangladesh’s goal was revised to 171 in 16 overs.
Soumya Sarkar smashed a 27-ball 51 however with not too many different substantial contributions from the highest and center order, Bangladesh fell nicely in need of their revised goal of 171 from 16 overs and went down by 28 runs.
New Zealand clinched the three-match sequence 2-0.
