Tea Bangladesh 90 for 4 and 205 (Habibul Bashar 61, Bond 4-47) need another 70 runs to avoid an innings defeat against New Zealand 365 for 9 (Richardson 143, McMillan 106)
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New Zealand were well positioned to win the first Test at Hamilton after taking 14 wickets on the fourth day, leaving Bangladesh needing another 70 runs to avoid an innings defeat.

The weather, which washed out the first two days, had given Bangladesh an excellent chance of salvaging a draw but their batsmen displayed such naivety that New Zealand might not need more than the morning session to complete their win. It was, nevertheless, an entertaining day which produced 354 runs and 18 wickets.

Needing 216 to avoid the follow-on, Bangladesh's batsmen were guilty of overly aggressive batting and despite useful contributions from Habibul Bashar (61), debutant Sanuar Hossain (45) and captain Khaled Mahmud (45) they failed to reach their target by 11 runs. The innings had last just over 58 overs which, given the fact that they only needed to avoid the follow-on to almost certainly guarantee a draw, underlined their inexperience. Bashar's fifty came up off 38 balls and Mahmud's 45 came at more than a run a ball. When caution was needed, they threw it to the wind.

And when they followed on Bangladesh showed that they had learnt nothing, the same reckless abandon leaving them 42 for 3 before a solid half-century from Mohammad Al Sahariar arrested the slide.

New Zealand's bowlers were not at their best, but that hardly mattered, and they had to make do for most of the day without Nathan Astle (wrist injury) and Lou Vincent (dislocated finger).

In the morning New Zealand extended their first innings by nine overs, smashing 59 runs for the loss of four wickets. Mark Richardson added only 19 to his overnight score, but it was enough for him to reach 1000 Test runs in his 20th innings, equalling John Reid's record.

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