Bangladesh Eye Ground-Breaking New Zealand Win After 2019 Trauma
Bangladesh hope to secure their first-ever win on New Zealand soil against the injury-hit Black Caps after returning to the country for the first time since they narrowly avoided the 2019 Christchurch Mosque massacre.
The in-form duo of Devon Conway and Will Young are set to make their ODI debuts for New Zealand in the absence of Williamson and Taylor.
Black Caps coach Gary Stead believes his side has the depth to cover the missing veterans and would use the series to blood new talent ahead of the 2023 World Cup in India.
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"It's exciting as coach when you sit round the selection table and start looking at the names you expect to keep coming through the way they are developing," he said.
New Zealand (from): Tom Latham (capt), Trent Boult, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Will Young.
Bangladesh (from): Tamim Iqbal (capt), Mosaddek Hossain, Najmul Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mohammad Mithun, Liton Das, Mahmudullah Riyad, Afif Hossain, Soumya Sarkar, Naim Sheikh, Taskin Ahmed, Al-Amin Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rubel Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed.