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Day belongs to Tigers

Cricket TIGERCR1CKET.COM, Dunedin
After a fascinating day's cricket Bangladesh finally imposed themselves on New Zealand and showed some much needed fight that could yet revive a tour that had been largely disappointing until Saturday. The Tigers bowled New Zealand out for 357 and then in their second innings trailed by just 72 runs with all wickets intact thanks to a record 148-run opening stand in 39 overs from Tamim Iqbal and Zunaed Siddiqui. With three full days to go the first Test could be thrown wide open if the tourists can bat throughout day three, a prospect that is no longer an improbability.
“If the openers carry on like today and we in the middle order contribute then it is possible to get something positive out of this Test. After we were bowled out for 137 in the first innings it was mighty difficult to claw back but Tamim and Zunaed showed the way and they have given the team a lot of confidence. It has turned into a superb batting wicket and we must capitalise on that." said captain Mohammad Ashraful.
Zunaed was impeccable in his shot-selection and solid in defence as he first opened up with straight drives, cover drives and forceful cuts and then grafted on way to an
unbeaten 69. Fellow debutant Tamim started with a delightful punch off a short of length ball from Kyle Mills where he laid his bodyweight just enough to send the ball racing to the boundary and then made the most of a drop at mid wicket by Lain O'Brien olf Mills to whack the bowler over the fence with an old-fashioned full-swirl hook. Tamim was not out on 72 when play ended and in the process had become only the second Bangladeshi batsman after Javed Omer to score half centuries in both innings onTest debut.
Tamim and Zunaed also broke Bangladesh's opening partnership record when they went past the previous best of 133 set by Tamim's brother Nafees Iqbal and Javed against Zimbabwe in January 2005.
"It feels great to set a new mark. The record still stays in the family and that is good also. There is a lot of work to be done and we just want
to bat as long as possible in the same vein wc batted today," said Ihmim.
Zunaed was also determined to carryon.
"The important thing is to hang in there. The wicket is not doing much and there is plenty of time remaining. We are not in any hurry. They tried short balls, containment, variation today but we were not going to make the same mistakes as in the first innings.”
The hero earlier in the day was Mashrafe Bin Mortaza who took 4 for 74 from 23 overs. It was a vintage Mortaza who ran in hard, hit the deck and generated speed around 140 kmph regularly. The first hour on day two went New Zealand's way with no wickets falling and then Mortaza was denied by umpire Peter Parker who turned down a confident appeal for lbw against centurion Matthew Bell
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when the batsman was on 97. The Tigers needed breakthroughs badly and Ashraful got two in quick succession. He got Bell lbw with a wrong 'un and dangerman Brendan McCullum was taken by a tumbling Siddiqui at slip before Monaza returned deadlier with the second new ball after lunch.
Jacob Oram hit a fluent hundred, his fourth in Tests, and was going nicely with his long reach and power packed shots before a delivery from Mortaza shaped away and then jagged back to get an inside edge on to the stumps. Mills edged the next ball to wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim to leave Mortaza on a hattrick but O'Brien survived the following delivery. After a period of gamesmanship where Mortaza and Shahadat Hossain steamed in and gave back Martin few short ones in response to the bowler's first innings exploits, Martin finally nicked Mortaza to Rahim who took a blinder diving full stretch to his right with one hand. It was the first time in the last seven innings that
Bangladesh had bowled out an opposition.
"I was not among the wickets in the last three Tests so this was a welcome relief. My confidence is back now. The pitches here are a bit similar to the ones we get back in the Sub-continent which has been a surprise because they are nothing like the ones 1 had played on during my last tour in 2001-02.1 guess this works in our favour a little." said Mortaza who was also inspired by the battingof the openers.
“They have also allowed the lower-order to believe what is possible in batting." said Mortaza.