Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: BAN crawl to 236/9 in 50 overs

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.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: All right the two captains have led their teams out and the players are standing shoulder to shoulder with the officials between the two sides. Their mascots standing in front of them. First comes New Zealand’s national anthem and then Bangladesh’s.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Najmul Hossain Shanto says that Bangladesh are bringing in the fiery Nahid Rana and Mahmudullah back into their squad. Soumya Sarkar and Tanzid Shakib are out.

Bangladesh: Tanzid Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Nahid Rana, Mustafizur Rahman

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Big pacer Kyle Jamieson returns to play his first international match since February last year. Rachin Ravindra also plays for the first time since he horrifically took that ball in his face while fielding in the tri-series before this tournament. Dary Mitchell is ill and so Ravindra could be playing as a middle order batter today.

New Zealand: Will Young, Devon Conway, Kane Williamson, Rachin Ravindra, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner(c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William O’Rourke

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: New Zealand have won the toss and chosen to field first in Rawalpindi

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The great man could score just one run in the tournament opener against Pakistan and 34 against the same opponents in the tri-series final before that. Don’t be fooled by that, though. Before that Williamson went on a run of eight innings in which he failed to go past 50 just once. The last two innings in that run came more than a year after the previous one and yet, Williamson returned to the format with scores of 58 and 133 not out.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Since 2015, New Zealand is the side Bangladesh have faced the most in ODIs. And yet, they have faced each other just twice in the Champions Trophy. New Zealand won the first match by 167 runs in Colombo in 2002 while Bangladesh won the second in Cardiff in 2017.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bangladesh did a lot of things right in their match against India but you can’t possibly hope to win any ODI after losing five wickets in the first powerplay. Head coach Phil Simmons has a simple message for the team, do better in the batting powerplay. “We lost in batting in overs one to ten, and the same in bowling. We have to make sure we win in those areas,” Simmons said ahead of the New Zealand game. “We need to assess and put together our batting better in the first ten overs. The middle and lower order have done really well so it is up to our top-order batsmen to put things together in the first ten or 15 overs, especially.”

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The comprehensive win they suffered against India has left Pakistan on the brink. New Zealand currently sit second on the Group A table with two points and a defeat for them today would keep them within reach of Pakistan, as they themselves have one game left to play against Bangladesh. They still have to beat Bangladesh by a good margin to stay clear of a mess of NRR equations but Pakistan’s hopes of a miracle start with Bangladesh beating New Zealand today.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: He has been the perpetual stop gap for New Zealand in the top order, mostly for Kane Williamson and now for Rachin Ravindra in this tournament. Ravindra could be elligible to play today but can New Zealand really keep Young out of the squad again today? It was a surprise that he still wasn’t considered a started after what he did in the Test series in India last year and now, he has responded to being Ravindra’s replacement by scoring a masterful century in New Zealand’s opening match against Pakistan. Surely, surely New Zealand would find it impossible to drop a player after he has scored a century like that in the first match of a tournament.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: It could be overcast in Rawalpindi today for large parts of the match.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bangladesh had lost as many as five wickets in the first nine overs of their opening game of the tournament against India. And yet, they managed to nearly play their full quota of 50 overs and scored 228 runs. That is because of a 154-run stand put up for the sixth wicket between Jaker Ali and Towhid Hridoy, which ensured India got no wickets between the ninth and 43rd overs.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bangladesh had a dream first half of 2024 which was topped off by them whitewashing Pakistan in a Test series in Pakistan. Both those matches were played in Rawalpindi. Now they are back at the venue of their greatest-ever triumph, although they are arguably facing a team so superior to Pakistan that it becomes a different ball game altogether.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The former Bangladesh captain missed out on the match against India due to a niggle. Bangladesh sorely missed his services as a spinner and as a middle-order enforcer. Mahmudullah’s hamstring is what kept him out of the first game as he injured himself during training. He batted in the nets in Rawalpindi though and so things are looking quite positive.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: They are perennially underrated but it would be pretty daft to not consider New Zealand among the favourites to win this tournament. In the solitary match they played against Pakistan in this tournament, and in the three they played in the tri-series before that, New Zealand showed they have got that key aspect all champion sides need to have – immaculate fielding.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: In their previous Champions Trophy meeting, Bangladesh beat New Zealand by five wickets, and reached the semis in that tournament in Cardiff. While chasing 266, they were at 33/4, before match-winning tons from Shakib and Mahmudullah.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The last time Rawalpindi held ODIs was in April 2023, when Pakistan chased down targets of 337, 289 with ease vs New Zealand. Since 2010, the venue has hosted five ODIs, and it has overseen seven individual tons in that period. So expect some big knocks today, we could see more centuries too! Also, three of the last five ODIs in Rawalpindi have been won by the side batting first, while one match has ended in a draw.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Will Young, Devon Conway, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner(c), Nathan Smith, Matt Henry, William ORourke, Rachin Ravindra, Mark Chapman, Kyle Jamieson, Jacob Duffy

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Tanzid Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Mahmudullah, Nasum Ahmed, Parvez Hossain Emon, Nahid Rana

Bangladesh vs New Zealand Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Hello and welcome everyone! Welcome to our live coverage of today’s Champions Trophy showdown between Bangladesh and New Zealand. Bangladesh need a win to get their campaign back on track, after losing to India in their opener. But they face a confident NZ side, who beat hosts Pakistan in the tournament opener.