Bangladesh vs New Zealand Highlights, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: NZ register clinical win as PAK, BAN out of semis race

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: They finish with a run rate of 4.72 on what still looks like a flat pitch. They have finished with the kind of score that teams are managing to score in T20Is nowadays. Bracewell got four wickets but that was largely because the Bangladesh batters were either looking to block the ball or go for broke. More than half of this innings were dot balls. Jamieson bowled nine overs and took a wicket, which is extremely important for New Zealand in the context of this tournament and beyond.

New Zealand need to chase a target of 237 today. Can they chase it down quickly and take some juicy NRR goodies in the process?

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Henry bowls it wide to Taskin first ball of the 49th over. Swing and miss and Jaker dashes forward for the single. Latham underarms it to the stumps at the striker's end and Jaker is gone for all money. This was the first ball of the second last over, there were 11 deliveries left. Did Jaker need to take that run? Questions, questions...

Jaker Ali run out (Latham) 45 (55)

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Jaker Ali does a baseball homerun-type swing fifth ball of the 46th over, the ball smashes into the advertising board behind deep midwicke. Well Jaker is playing a very handy role here towards the end. He has moved to 40 off 51 balls, Taskin Ahmed at the other end on one off nine.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rishad takes a big swipe at the first ball of the 44th over. Back of a length delivery outside off. The shot takes the ball down the ground but it doesn't have enough distance on it. Easy catch for Santner at mid-off.

Hossain c Santner b Henry 26 (25)

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Fourth ball of the 42nd by Henry is short, Rishad swings. It takes a top edge and it flies over the wicketkeeper for four. A total of nine runs in that over. Rishad on 24 off 21, Jaker on 25 off 40.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Third ball of that over from Santner is smashed over wide long-on. It was the tal O'Rourke out there and even he couldn't reach it. A single and a double either side of that six and Rishad on 16 off as many, Jaker Ali on 24 off 39.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rishad Hossain ends the 40th over by Henry by smashing the last ball into the long on area for four. Bangladesh need many more of those. We are into the final powerplay now, New Zealand can have five outside the ring. Captain Santner to bowl the 41st over.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: New Zealand almost made a meal of this catch but the fact that they still got it also shows just how well-oiled a machine they are in the field. Shanto goes for the big hit down the ground, it goes up and touches a few clouds, set to fall somewhere behind the umpire at the non-striker's end. Five fielders stand looking at each other and finally, it is Michael Bracewell, who was farthest from it, who runs in and dives to take the catch.

Shanto c Bracewell b O'Rourke 77 (110)

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: His preferred way of scoring today has been singles, which is probably why his strike rate was starting to dip into the 60s before that shot. O'Rourke returns for the 36th over, Shanto runs two off the first ball. The second is full and Shanto plays it back down the ground for a four.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Two runs off Santner in the 32nd over. There is a huge gulf in class between these two teams and it is evident here. Bangladesh just not showing enough intent running between the wickets and they are still unable to find the gaps. If there is a plan that Bangladesh are following, well it is pretty hard to see it at the moment.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bangladesh's attitude today has been either tap the ball back to the bowler or to a fielder and hope you get a run or slog in the hope that the the ball reaches the boundary. Their run rate has now dipped below 4.50. This happened in both matches that have been played against India in Dubai but then the nature of that pitch meant that the run rate dip was somewhat justified. This is the kind of pitch where 300 might not be a par score. Just stunning here from Bangladesh.

Shanto is on 57 off 80, Jaker Ali on six off 13.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bracewell is using the wind and the drift but the main reason why this is happening is because Bangladesh are just throwing it away. Mushfiqur first, now Mahmudullah, Bangladesh's most experienced batters gone playing like novices. Mahmudullah advances down the track early, tries to go for a big shot down the ground but the length means the shot is not on. He still goes for it and it takes a thick edge, O'Rourke takes the catch at short third. Absolutely amateurish execution of the shot, the kind you expect to see in club games, not in the Champions Trophy.

Mahmudullah c O'Rourke b Bracewell 4 (14)

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: A half-century that has come in 71 balls. Whether this will be a good innings or not really depends on whether Shanto can kick on from here.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Wicket No.3 for Bracewell. The Bangladesh batters are thinking they can hit him anywhere they want and he is loving it.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Mushfiqur is off the mark but two pieces of fielding pretty much sums up how New Zealand are squeezing Bangladesh at the moment. Santner bowls the fourth ball full outside off, Shanto doesn't quite nail the cut shot. Will Young dives to his left full stretch at short third to stop the ball from going past the infield. Then Glenn Phillips at midwicket dives to stop the next ball from going through. Two dot balls entirely due to determined fielding. This pitch, by the way, is an absolute road and so Bangladesh are staring at a rather humiliating defeat if they can't accelerate.

Shanto is on 48 off 68, Mushfiqur Rahm on two off two.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bracewell gets another and it is Hridoy, the centurion from the game against India. Fantastic catch there by Williamson. Third ball of the 21st is full from Bracewell outside off, Hridoy backs away and tries to loft it over the off side. It goes up in the air, Williamson runs back from cover, dives and completes the catch.

Hridoy c Williamson b Bracewell 7 (24)

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bangladesh's run rate has now dipped below five. Everything they are hitting seems to be going to a fielder. Hridoy on seven off 12, Shanto on 45 off 61.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The Bangladesh captain has got off to a good start here. Just one run in that 15th over from Michael Bracewell and Shanto is on 34 off 44, Towhid Hridoy, the tragic hero from Bangladesh's last game, has scored one in eight balls.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Well that is tame. Miraz tries to somehow play the last ball of the 12th above leg side somewhere, ends up giving the mid-on fielder catching practice. Wonder if the Bangladesh top order batters have been told that they are top order players and this is not yet the last 10 overs of the innings.

Mehidy Hasan Miraz c Santner b O'Rourke 13 (14)

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Mehidy Hasan Miraz has walked in at No.3 and reeled off 13 runs off just 11 balls. Najmul Hossain Shanto has also picked up pace at the other end, he is on 23 off 31. Bracewell just bowled his second over while Will O'Rourke was introduced in the 10th. He continues now for the 12th.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: He had got off to a good start against India as well and fell in Axar Patel's very first over. Now he falls to Michael Bracewell in his very first over. Bracewell tosses up the second ball, Tanzid goes for a big haymaker across the line. Miscued and a straightforward catch for Williamson at midwicket.

Tanzid Hasan c Williamson b Bracewell 24 (24)

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The two players are batting on two different planets at the moment. Henry goes short fourth ball of the seventh over, Tanzid smashes it over midwicket and the ball lands right on the boundary cushion. Wide down the leg side next ball and then two runs off the fifth.

Tanzid on 24 off 22, Shanto on eight off 20.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Just two runs given in the second over. Shanto is under all kinds of pressure already. He is unable to rotate strike and his barren recent form doesn't help either. Tanzid at the other end ticking along nicely.

Shanto is on three off 11, Tanzid on 13 off 13.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Indian fans would remember from the 2019 WTC Final just how difficult it is to score of Kyle Jamieson but this is first international in over a year and so he is a little rusty. Jamieson pitches up the fourth ball of the second over, Tanzid flicks it away behind square. The next ball is nicely on the pads and Tanzid sends it sailing over deep midwicket for a six.

Tanzid on 13 off 10, Shanto on none off two.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Not the greatest of atmospheres at the Pindi Stadium, understandably. The hosts are not playing and home fans may not have too much hopes of them getting a favourable result today. Even if they did, Pakistan's performances in the two matches they have played were underwhelming to say the least. Anyhow, it's a hot Monday as well, let's hope the crowd builds up later in the day. Matt Henry steaming in, Tanzid Hasan facing up with captain Shanto at the other end.