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Bangladesh 62 for 3 (Shakib 25, Patel 1-7) beat New Zealand 60 (Latham 18, Nicholls 18, Mustafizur 3-13, Nasum 2-5, Saifuddin 2-7) by seven wickets
Dhaka: Bangladesh registered their first T20I victory over New Zealand after bowling them out for the visitors' joint-lowest total and went 1-0 up in the five-match series.
New Zealand's inexperience showed when they took the field in the first T20I on Wednesday, 1 September in Dhaka. In the absence of regular players, the visitors struggled from the first delivery, Bangladesh going on to record a thumping seven-wicket win.
It was quite the turnaround for the hosts, who had lost all the limited-overs fixtures against the Blackcaps in March this year.
The turning track in Mirpur was a spinner's paradise as they accounted for half of New Zealand's side and were effective in crippling them at the start with the seamers cleaning up the tail.
The visitors folded for 60 – their joint-lowest total in men's T20Is, following a similar collapse against Sri Lanka in the 2014 T20 World Cup.
Mahedi Hasan, who started off the proceedings, sent back debutant Rachin Ravindra for a golden duck as the opener closed the bat face early for a flick and ended up lobbing it back to the bowler. His partner Will Young did hit a boundary to ease his nerves, but fell in the third over to Shakib Al Hasan, chopping one onto stumps.
Reeling at 8/2, New Zealand were pegged back further with Nasum Ahmed's double strike. The left-arm spinner first removed the dangerous Colin de Grandhomme (1) – he mistimed slog-sweep to deep square leg – and then got one to spin away sharply, taking Tom Blundell's (2) off-stump. By the end of Powerplay, New Zealand were reduced to 18/4.
The visiting captain Tom Latham looked to rebuild alongside Henry Nicholls, and the duo put up a 34-run stand for the fifth wicket.
However, just when it looked like New Zealand had stabilised, Mohammad Saifuddin broke the fledgling partnership, dismissing Latham for a 25-ball 18.
The other New Zealand debutant Cole McConchie also perished for a duck, giving Shakib his second wicket and Saifuddin got back in the next over to remove Nicholls for 18 as well.
The procession of wickets continued with Mustafizur Rahman claiming the final three.
There was a double-wicket over in which he sent back Ajaz Patel (3) and Doug Bracewell (5), and he then returned in the 17th to snare Jacob Duffy (3).
New Zealand's innings lasted just 16.5 overs.
Defending a paltry total was not going to be easy, but New Zealand fought back with all they had. If Bangladesh thought this was going to be a walk in the park, it was anything but as they lost crucial wickets at the top.
McConchie, the debutant, provided his team with the breakthrough, making Mohammad Naim drive a flighted one straight to cover.
The other opener Liton Das was then lured forward by an Ajaz Patel delivery that beat the outside edge and landed in Latham's gloves for a quick stumping.
At 7/2, New Zealand were trying to assert their dominance over the hosts, but Bangladesh had the luxury of biding their time.
The home side regrouped, and banking on the experience of their veteran batters, they managed to hold the New Zealand bowlers at bay.
Taking their time, keeping the scoreboard ticking, Shakib and Mushfiqur Rahim chipped away at the target.
Ravindra broke the 30-run third-wicket stand to send back Shakib in the 10th over, but it was too little too late for the visitors.
With just 23 further runs needed, and plenty of wickets and overs in hand, the hosts continued unperturbed.
Hitting a four on the final ball of the 15th over, Mushfiqur sealed a seven-wicket victory for Bangladesh.
New Zealand will hope for a better outing in the second T20I, at the same venue on Friday.
