Bangladesh vs New Zealand, 1st Test Day 4: Live Cricket Score And Updates

Bangladesh vs New Zealand 1st Test, Day 4 Live Updates: Hosts Bangladesh are in a commanding 205-run lead against New Zealand after putting an exemplary display of batting and bowling over the first four days. After bowling out the Kiwis for 317 in the first innings, Bangladesh ended the third day's play at 212/3, with Najmul Hossain Shanto scoring a century. With 7 wickets in hand, the Bangla Tigers would look to put around 400 runs on the board in the second innings. Anything less might see put the Kiwis in charge. (LIVE Scorecard)

Right then, that is it from a testing Day 3 where Bangladesh have taken a decent lead with a lot of wickets in hand while New Zealand will hope that they can make some early inroads in Day 4 to get back in the game. The action on Day 4 will begin on 1st December, Friday at 9 am IST (3.30 am GMT), but as you know, you can always join us early for all the build-up. Cheers!

Bangladesh, on the other hand, would have liked to bowl the Kiwis out much quicker but that wasn't the case. However, the lead was not that significant, so the hosts surpassed it very quickly. The openers, Zakir Hasan and Mahmudul Hasan Joy were a bit too defensive this time around. The former once again became a victim of Ajaz Patel while the latter was unfortunate to get run out at the non-striker's end. Najmul Hossain Shanto and Mominul Haque steadied their ship in this second session and added 90 runs together before a huge mix-up in the middle cost the latter his wicket after Tea. Shanto registered an excellent half-century and Mushfiqur Rahim used his experience well as they used the sweeps and reverse-sweeps brilliantly to counter the Kiwi spinners. Shanto went onto secure an exceptional hundred and became the first