DHAKA: The day is sunny and Bangladeshi batsmen, on the crease of Chittagong Jahur Ahmed Stadium, are quite happy to start a good day of the first Test against New Zealand Friday.

Mominul Haque, 22-year-old Left-hand batsman, hit first Test century on the third day of the match playing 98 balls.

On Friday morning, Bangladesh resumed their innings with Mominul Haque’s 77 and Marshall Ayub’s 21.     

Bangladesh managed to crawl to 103 for 2 at stumps on day-2 Thursday.

The host scored 75 after the end of over-27 in response to the visitors’ 469 in the first innings.

Tamim Iqbal was dismissed for a first-ball duck. He was caught by Williamson off Boult. Anamul Haque scored only 3 before returning to the pavilion. Bracewell took the wicket.

Earlier the visitors made the responsible score loosing all wickets in 157.1 over.

Although Bangladeshi bowlers started hunting Kiwi wickets in the early on the second day, the last wickets of BJ Watling and Trent Boult helped reach the score with 103 and 52 runs respectively.

Before returning to the pavilion, KS Williamson, PG Fulton, HD Rutherford, LRPL Taylor and BB McCullum scored 114, 73, 34, 28 and 21 runs respectively.

Abdur Razzak bagged three wickets while Shakib and Sohag Gazi got two weeks each and Nasir got one wicket.

New Zealand scored 280 runs for five in 89.5 over on the first day Wednesday.

Teams:

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Mahmudullah, Anamul Haque, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (c&wk), Abdur Razzak, Mominul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Marshall Ayub, Sohag Gazi, Robiul Islam.

New Zealand: Peter Fulton, Hamish Rutherford, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Dean Brownlie, Brendon McCullum (c), BJ Watling (wk), Corey Anderson, Doug Bracewell, Neil Wagner, Trent Boult.

BDST: 1027 HRS, OCT 11, 2013
AKA/GCP