Kiwi opener Will Young scores 7 runs in 1 ball in 2nd Test vs Ban | Watch

New Zealand
opener Will Young scored 54 on the opening day of the second Test against
Bangladesh before being dismissed by Shoriful Islam at the Hagley Oval,
Christchurch on Sunday. What is interesting in his rather even-tempered innings
is he scored 7 runs off 1 delivery. The incident took place after the lunch as
dominant New Zealand have put 92 runs on board without any loss in the first
session.

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In the final
delivery of the first over bowled after the lunch, by Bangladesh pacer Ebadot
Hossain, Young nicked the ball marginally outside the off-stump towards slip.
While the ball was going straight at the first slip, the fielder from the
second slip tried to grab it and dropped the catch. The ball deflected
significantly off the fielder’s fingers towards fine leg and both batters,
Young and Tom Latham, comfortably completed three runs, running between the
wickets.

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The fielder threw
to the keeper’s end and Nurul Hasan, in turn, threw the delivery at the
bowler’s end where it dodged every fielder. Ebadot, then, chased the ball as it
ran through an empty field, eventually resulting in a boundary.

Earlier,
Bangladesh, who won the first Test, won the toss and opted to field in the
second Test. New Zealand made a merry against Bangladesh pacers as the opening
duo put up a 148-run partnership before Devon Conway joined in Latham in the
middle. While Latham ended the day on 186 not out, Conway is just one short of
scoring a hundred.

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In the first Test
of a two-match series, ninth-ranked Bangladesh shocked the cricket world when
it beat the world Test champions, New Zealand, by eight wickets earlier this
week, ending New Zealand’s 17-match unbeaten run in test matches at home.

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In the second
Test, Bangladesh made two changes, forced by injuries. Batter Mohammad Naim
became Bangladesh’s 100th test player when he was handed a debut in place of
Mahmudul Hasan Joy who suffered a hand injury in the first Test.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Najmul Hasan took over from Bangladesh’s most experienced
player, Mushfiqur Rahim, who has been nourishing a groin strain.