BAN VS NZ - 2nd T20I, New Zealand tour of Bangladesh, 2021

Bangladesh have now won ten of their last eleven T20Is at home. With three games left in the series, they are just one win away from sealing the series. Can New Zealand bounce back? It was a significantly better batting performance from them today after a shocker in the first. There's still some fine-tuning to be done. That's it for today. Tune in for the third T20I on Sunday. Until then, goodbye..

Mahmudullah | Bangladesh captain and Player of the Match: In T20s, you get these sort of close games. Happy to get the win, that's what matters. Mustafizur held his nerve. I had quite a bit of confidence on him to deliver and he did. Mahedi has been bowling well, he's been giving early breakthroughs. The wicket got better under lights. We believe that we are a good team in this format. We are happy to continue this streak (eight wins this calendar year).

Tom Latham | New Zealand captain: It was a great game. For us to learn from the first game, I thought we did that. We weren't quite as good with the ball today but we bowled quite well at the top. A better surface makes for a better game and that was the case. For us it's about executing our skills. 130-140 was a competitive score and we took it deep. Partnerships work differently, my role was to bat till the end. The guys coming in did a really good job. I am really proud of the guys the way turned things around.

19:30 Local Time, 13:30 GMT, 19:00 IST: The above-waist no-ball in the final over made things interesting towards the end but Mustafizur remained cool. Spare a thought for Latham. He notched up his maiden T20I half-century and took the game down to the wire but hardly got any support from the other end. Chasing a tricky total, the visitors lost both the openers cheaply inside the powerplay. Post that, the New Zealand captain and Will Young somewhat steadied the ship with a 40+ partnership for the third wicket. Shakib forced the latter to make the mistake and broke the partnership. The three spinners picked six wickets between them and conceded just 58 runs in 11 overs. Latham survived a couple of close shaves (an lbw call and a run-out chance fluffed by Nurul Hasan), but he couldn't take his team over the line. So close and yet so far! Stay tuned for the presentations..

Mustafizur to Latham, 1 run, Latham can only take a single off the final ball. Cutter, length ball, Latham muscles the pull to deep mid-wicket. Couldn't get the elevation and Bangladesh win by 4 runs to go 2-0 up!

Six needed off the final ball! Can Latham do it for New Zealand?

Mustafizur to Latham, leg byes, 2 runs, full on the pads, worked away through backward square leg for a brace

Equation: 8 runs | 2 balls. It's a free-hit too.

Mustafizur to Latham, no ball, FOUR, oooh! Did the ball slip out of his hand? A head-high full toss, Latham crouches and is taken aback. He's got some wood (inside edge) as he sticks his vertical bat out and the ball dribbles away to the fine leg fence.

Equation: 13 runs | 2 balls. Couple of sixes for a Super Over...

Mustafizur to McConchie, 1 run, 116.1kph, Mustafizur persists with his cutters, cut in front of square on the off-side. Just a single...

Equation: 14 runs | 3 balls

Mustafizur to McConchie, 2 runs, slower ball from a shortened length, McConchie backs away and cuts through backward point for a couple more

Equation: 16 runs | 4 balls

Mustafizur to Latham, 1 run, pitched up, drilled to long-off for just a single

Mustafizur to McConchie, 3 runs, shortish ball, McConchie heaves over mid-wicket. The man in the deep attacks and fails to get behind it. Allows the ball to go through him and the batsmen take three

Equation: 20 runs | 6 balls. Very good penultimate over from Saifuddin under pressure. Latham is off strike too. Surely, Bangladesh are the favourites...

Saifuddin to McConchie, 1 run, wide yorker, a shuffling McConchie can only jam it towards backward point for a single

Saifuddin to Latham, 1 run, full and on the pads, wristed through backward square leg

Saifuddin to Latham, no run, shapes up to scoop, Saifuddin sees that and bowls a full one wide of off. Latham adjusts and tries to work it the other way around by opening his bat-face, but misses. A muted appeal for caught-behind follows but Bangladesh decide against the review