BAN VS NZ - 5th T20I, New Zealand tour of Bangladesh, 2021

Mahmudullah goes to the stage to get the winner's trophy and is joined by his teammates as they pose for the photographs. These might not be the ideal wickets with regards to the preparations for the upcoming T20 World Cup, but Bangladesh will definitely go into the qualifiers with a winning mentality. Not every day you'd win three series in a row - two of them coming against Australia and New Zealand, although against severely depleted squads. But that's none of Bangladesh's problem. Right, they're done with enough warm-up for the World Cup. The tournament proper starts for them on October 17th, when they face Scotland. But it's a long way away and there's plenty of cricket before that. Do stay tuned as we bring you each and every match. For now, cheers and bye..

Mahmudullah | Bangladesh captain - Disappointed at losing, but they played well, got a good score which we couldn't chase down, but happy to have won the series. The bowlers did well, we didn't finish well, but they bowled their hearts out. Shoriful got early wickets, we didn't start well with the bat, me and Afif Hossain got a partnership, but they (New Zealand) bowled well in the end. We have played good cricket to win three series in a row, it's a good feeling. Hopefully, we'll go well in the World Cup and win a few games.

Tom Latham and Nasum Ahmed share the Player of the Series award

Tom Latham | Player of the Match - It's great to finish the tour on a high, we were able to place all the pieces together after coming close in the first four games of the series. It was a good surface, the openers set the platform, they played with freedom and allowed the middle-order to take their time and finish well in the back-end. The bowlers have been fantastic all series and again they showed their learning from the previous games, hopefully, we'll take some positives going into the Pakistan tour - which is another opportunity for the guys. Nice to spend some time in the middle, haven't played a lot of T20 cricket, pleasing to have scored in conditions which are different back home.

19:24 Local Time, 13:24 GMT, 18:54 IST: A comprehensive victory for New Zealand in what was the best batting strip of the series, but Bangladesh will take the series 3-2. Should the hosts be worried about their tame loss in good batting conditions? Yes, they were resting a few stars, especially Shakib and Mustafizur, but this was still a World Cup bound squad and their lacklustre chase could be a cause of concern. New Zealand completely outplayed them, except for a period of four overs between 12th and 15th, in which Afif Hossain and Mahmudullah took 50 runs. A poor start and a poor finish as the hosts never came close to chasing down 162. Afif remained unbeaten on a 33-ball 49, which was their only silver lining. Soumya Sarkar and Mushfiqur continued to struggle and the rest just couldn't get going. Wickets shared between everyone with Kuggeleijn and Ajaz taking two each. Stay tuned for the presentations..

Jacob Duffy to Nasum Ahmed, 2 runs, fuller length delivery at the stumps, Nasum backs away and drives it to long-on, comes back for the second run. New Zealand win by 27 runs

Jacob Duffy to Nasum Ahmed, no run, slower ball and well wide of off, Nasum had backed away on the drive and can't reach out

Jacob Duffy to Afif Hossain, 1 run, banged in short and following Afif - he took his eyes off the ball but manages to fend it away off the bat-handle

Jacob Duffy to Afif Hossain, 2 runs, full and at the stumps, whipped away over mid-wicket and Afif is back for the second

Jacob Duffy to Nasum Ahmed, 1 run, back of a length and at the stumps, Nasum backs away and muscles the pull to long-on

Jacob Duffy to Afif Hossain, 1 run, on a length and at the stumps, worked away down to long leg for a single

Nasum Ahmed, left handed bat, comes to the crease

Kuggeleijn to Taskin Ahmed, out Bowled!! Kuggeleijn has hisn man - was the slower ball at the stumps, rolled his fingers across the seam - Taskin backed away on the heave over mid-wicket, misses and turned back to see his middle-stump being pegged back. Kuggeleijn is done with today's work, he does so with a wicket. Taskin Ahmed b Kuggeleijn 9(4) [4s-2]

Kuggeleijn to Taskin Ahmed, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Kuggeleijn to Taskin Ahmed, FOUR, thumped, length ball at the stumps, Taskin backs away and then drills it back over the bowler's head, beats the diving fielder, running across from long-on

Kuggeleijn to Afif Hossain, 1 run, full and at the stumps, Afif backs away and finds mid-off with the drive

Kuggeleijn to Taskin Ahmed, 1 run, the slower short ball outside off, Taskin pushes it in front of mid-off for a single

Back to over the wicket

Kuggeleijn to Taskin Ahmed, FOUR, much better from Taskin, but is already too late? Length ball outside off and he carved it over mid-off, one bounce and over the ropes

Kuggeleijn to Afif Hossain, 1 run, pacy stuff from Kuggeleijn and Afif is clearly undone by it - was through with the pull and spliced i n no man's land, wide of cover