NZ sweeps Bangladesh in ODI series

New Zealand's World Cup squad has taken shape after a comfortable 3-0 ODI series win over Bangladesh.

The shape of the squad New Zealand will take to the ICC World Cup in England became clearer as it beat Bangladesh by 88 runs in Dunedin to complete a 3-0 sweep of the ODI series.

New Zealand made 6-330 after Bangladesh bowled first for the first time in the series, and the visitors were never in the hunt after losing two wickets in the first over of their reply.

Tim Southee dismissed Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar for ducks within the first four balls, then removed Liton Das (1) in his next over to leave Bangladesh 3-1 on a tame batting pitch.

Sabbir Rahman led a middle-order revival, making a gallant 102 and putting on 101 for the sixth wicket with Mohammad Saifuddin (44) and 67 for the eighth with Mehedi Hasan (37).

But Southee returned to finish off the lower order and to take 6-65 as Bangladesh was dismissed in for 242 in the 48th over.

Ross Taylor top-scored for New Zealand with 69 and in doing so passed Stephen Fleming (8,007 runs) to become New Zealand's leading run-scorer in one-day internationals with 8,026 at 48.2.

Henry Nicholls and Tom Latham, both locks for the World Cup squad, made 64 and 59 respectively.

Colin Munro (8) was the only batsman to fail but is still likely to go to the World Cup as a back-up batsman, with Nicholls slated to open with Martin Guptill.

Munro has only been past 50 twice in his last 20 one-day innings but the New Zealand selectors still value his big-hitting ability.

The allrounders who played at University Oval all produced with the bat.

Colin de Grandhomme dashed an unbeaten 37 from 15 balls to likely seal his trip to England.

Jimmy Neesham made 37 from 24 and Mitchell Santer 16no from nine.

Southee has been edged out of the new ball role but still has a valuable role to play behind Trent Boult and Matt Henry while Lockie Ferguson is the other pace option.

Coach Gary Stead has hinted New Zealand will take a specialist wicketkeeper - Tim Seifert is the logical candidate.


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