New Zealand national cricket team in Bangladesh for the 2008-09 season

The New Zealand national cricket team's tour to Bangladesh in the 2008/09 season took place from October 7th to 29th, 2008. The international cricket tour was part of the 2008/09 international cricket season and included two test matches and three ODIs . New Zealand won the test series 1-0 and the ODI series 2-1.

prehistory

It was the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2007/08 season in New Zealand .

Stages

Chittagong Dhaka

Tour venues

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour and announced on July 20, 2008.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Chittagong Divisional Stadium	Chittagong	20,000	3. ODI; 1st test
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium	Dhaka	26,000	1. ODI; 2. ODI; 2nd test

Squad lists

New Zealand named its roster on September 12, 2008. Bangladesh named its ODI roster on October 6, and its test roster on October 14, 2008.

test		ODI
Bangladesh	New Zealand	Bangladesh	New Zealand
Mohammad Ashraful ( K ) Mahbubul Alam Shakib Al Hasan Mehrab Hossain Shahadat Hossain Tamim Iqbal Naeem Islam Mashrafe Mortaza Mushfiqur Rahim ( wk ) Syed Rasel Abdur Razzak Rajin Saleh Junaid Siddique	Daniel Vettori ( K ) Grant Elliott Daniel Flynn Mark Gillespie Gareth Hopkins ( wk ) Jamie How Brendon McCullum ( wk ) Kyle Mills Iain O'Brien Jacob Oram Jeetan Patel Aaron Redmond Jesse Ryder Tim Southee Ross Taylor	Mohammad Ashraful ( K ) Mahbubul Alam Shakib Al Hasan Mehrab Hossain Shahadat Hossain Tamim Iqbal Naeem Islam Imrul Kayes Mohammad Mahmudullah Mashrafe Mortaza Mushfiqur Rahim ( wk ) Syed Rasel Abdur Razzak Junaid Siddique	Daniel Vettori ( K ) Grant Elliott Daniel Flynn Mark Gillespie Gareth Hopkins ( wk ) Jamie How Brendon McCullum ( wk ) Michael Mason Kyle Mills Jacob Oram Jeetan Patel Jesse Ryder Tim Southee Scott Styris Ross Taylor

Tour match

October 7th scorecard	Dhaka	Bangladesh Cricket Board XI	-	New Zealanders
		Game canceled

One-day internationals

First ODI in Dhaka

October 9 scorecard	Dhaka	New Zealand 201-9 (50)	-	Bangladesh 202-3 (45.3)
		Bangladesh wins with 7 wickets

Second ODI in Dhaka

October 11th scorecard	Dhaka	New Zealand 212-9 (50)	-	Bangladesh 137 (42.4)
		New Zealand wins with 75 runs

Third ODI in Chittagong

October 14 scorecard	Chittagong	New Zealand 249-7 (50)	-	Bangladesh 170-8 (50)
		New Zealand wins with 79 runs

Test matches

First test in Chittagong

October 17-21 Scorecard	Chittagong	Bangladesh 245 (122.1) & 242 (107.3)	-	New Zealand 171 (64.5) & 317-7 (137.5)
		New Zealand wins with 3 wickets

Second test in Dhaka

October 25-29 Scorecard	Dhaka	New Zealand 262-6d (75) & 79-1d (31)	-	Bangladesh 169-9d (58.1)
		draw

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	2	4th	169	56.33	91	0	1
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	2	3	153	76.50	76	0	2
Aaron Redmond	New Zealand	2	4th	130	43.33	79	0	1
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	2	3	125	41.66	71	0	1
Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh	2	3	118	39.33	79	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	2	97	14th	14.21	5/59	2	0
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	2	95.4	10	17.80	7/36	1	0
Iain O'Brien	New Zealand	2	53.1	8th	11.87	3/31	0	0
Jeetan Patel	New Zealand	2	56.1	5	33.00	2/53	0	0
Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh	2	97	5	44.80	3/93	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	3	3	138	46.00	103	1	0
Jacob Oram	New Zealand	3	3	135	67.50	75 *	0	2
Junaid Siddique	Bangladesh	3	3	118	39.33	85	0	1
Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	3	3	108	54.00	60 *	0	1
Jamie How	New Zealand	3	3	80	26.66	73	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Mashrafe Mortaza	Bangladesh	3	30th	7th	17.57	4/44	0	0
Kyle Mills	New Zealand	3	21.4	6th	10.83	3/13	0	0
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	3	30th	5	18.20	2/20	0	0
Jacob Oram	New Zealand	3	21st	4th	12.50	2/16	0	0
Syed Rasel	Bangladesh	3	22nd	4th	20.25	3/23	0	0
Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh	3	29	4th	38.00	3/33	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Daniel Vettori
ODI	Jacob Oram

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. ODI	Junaid Siddique
2. ODI	Jacob Oram
3. ODI	Ross Taylor
1st test	Daniel Vettori
2nd test	Daniel Vettori

Web links

• The series on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Zealand to tour Bangladesh in October ( English ) Cricinfo. July 20, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
2. ↑ Ryder in New Zealand Test Squad ( English ) Cricinfo. September 12, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
3. ↑ Bangladesh include three uncapped players ( English ) Cricinfo. October 6, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
4. ↑ Naeem and Mahbubul get Test call-ups ( English ) Cricinfo. October 6, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
5. ↑ Records / New Zealand in Bangladesh Test Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
6. ↑ Records / New Zealand in Bangladesh Test Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 4, 2016.