A jubilant Bangladesh have completed their finest ever Test victory abroad, ending world Test champions New Zealand’s 17-match unbeaten streak at home in a remarkable upset.

Ebadot Hossain, a former volleyball player for the Bangladesh Air Force who had a bowling average of 81.54 from 10 Tests coming into the series opener in Mount Maunganui, proved the unlikeliest of heroes as he ripped through the hosts with a terrific spell of 6-46.

After Bangladesh had seized a 130-run first-innings advantage, pacemen Ebadot and Taskin Ahmed (3-36) devastated NZ with skillful reverse-swing bowling to skittle them for just 169 on the game’s final morning.

(Scores: Bangladesh 458 (Mominul 88, Litton 86, Boult 4-85) and 40 for 2 (Shanto 17, Mominul 13*) beat New Zealand 328 (Conway 122, Nicholls 75, Shoriful 3-69, Mehidy 3-86) and 169 (Young 69, Taylor 40, Ebadot 6-46, Taskin 3-36) by eight wickets)

Bangladesh then knocked off the required 40 runs in 16.5 overs to seal a historic win for the Tigers, who are ranked ninth on the ICC Test standings and missing legends Shakib al-Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah.
Ebadot, who has only played cricket for around five years, had almost single-handedly reduced the Black Caps to 5-147 at stumps on day four before completing his maiden five-wicket haul with his second ball of day five, producing a brilliant delivery that bowled outgoing star Ross Taylor (40).

Shoriful Islam and sub-fielder Taijul Islam then took stunning catches to all but seal Bangladesh’s first ever away Test win over a top-five ranked team and just their sixth victory abroad from 61 attempts.

Bangladesh had not previously won any of their 43 matches in New Zealand across all three formats, while the result also ends the Kiwis’ eight-series home win streak that stretched back to 2017
Ebadot, having dismissed all but two of NZ’s top eight batters in their second dig, earned player-of-the-match honours.

“The first thing to know about Ebadot as a person is that he only came to cricket about five years ago,” Bangladesh’s bowling coach Ottis Gibson said on Tuesday.
“He won a fast-bowling competition somewhere and two years later he was playing international cricket.

“He’s a joy to work with because he’s enthusiastic and he wants to learn so much. When his confidence is high, he can bowl spells like this.”

Led by Devon Conway’s 122, NZ managed 328 in their first innings but the loss of their last five wickets for 70 runs left them short of a strong total on a low, dry Bay Oval surface.

Captain Mominul Haque (88), Liton Das (86) and Mahmudul Joy (78) then fired the visitors to 458 to put the heat on a Black Caps top order missing their skipper and best batter Kane Williamson due to an elbow injury.
The second Test gets underway on Sunday in Christchurch.(Cricket.com,au)

NEW ZEALAND 1st innings 328
Bangladesh 1st innings 458
Shadman Islam c & b Neil Wagner 22
Mahmudul Hasan Joy c Henry Nicholls b Neil Wagner 78
Najmul Hossain Shanto c Will Young b Neil Wagner 64
Mominul Haque lbw Trent Boult 88
Mushfiqur Rahim b Trent Boult 12
Liton Das c Tom Blundell b Trent Boult 86
Yasir Ali c Tom Blundell b Kyle Jamieson 26
Mehidy Hasan c Tom Blundell b Tim Southee 47
Taskin Ahmed lbw Tim Southee 5
Shoriful Islam b Trent Boult 7
Extras: (lb-8, nb-3, pen-5, w-7) 23
Total: (all out, 176.2 overs) 458
Fall of wickets: 1-43, 2-147, 3-184 4-203, 5-361, 6-370, 7-445, 8-450, 9-458.
Bowling: Tim Southee 38-4-114-2 (w-1), Trent Boult 35.2-11-85-4 (w-1), Kyle Jamieson 35-11-78-1 (w-4),Neil Wagner 40-9-101-3 (w-1, nb-3), Rachin Ravindra 28-5-67- 0.

NEW ZEALAND 2nd innings
Tom Latham b Taskin Ahmed 14
Will Young b Ebadot Hossain 69
Devon Conway c Shadman Islam b Ebadot Hossain 13
Ross Taylor b Ebadot Hossain 40
Henry Nicholls b Ebadot Hossain 0
Tom Blundell lbw Ebadot Hossain 0
Rachin Ravindra c Liton Das b Taskin Ahmed 16
Kyle Jamieson c Shoriful Islam b Ebadot Hossain 0
Tim Southee b Taskin Ahmed 0
Neil Wagner Not Out 0
Trent Boult c (Sub) b Mehidy Hasan 8
Extras 2b 5lb 1nb 0pen 1w 9
Total (73.4 overs) 169 all out
Fall of Wickets : 1-29 Latham, 2-63 Conway, 3-136 Young, 4-136 Nicholls, 5-136 Blundell, 6-154 Taylor, 7-160 Jamieson, 8-160 Ravindra, 9-161 Southee, 10-169 Boult
Bowling : Taskin Ahmed 14 – 3 – 36 – 3 (1w 1nb),
Shoriful Islam 12 – 2 – 30 – 0, Mehidy Hasan 22.4 – 5 – 43 – 1,
Ebadot Hossain 21- 6- 46 – 6, Mominul Haque 4 – 0 – 7 – 0.
BANGLADESH 2nd innings
Shadman Islam c Tom Blundell b Tim Southee 3
Najmul Hossain Shanto c Ross Taylor b Kyle Jamieson 17
Mominul Haque Not Out 13
Mushfiqur Rahim Not Out 5
Extras 0b 1lb 1nb 0pen 2w 4
Total (16.5 overs) 42-2
Fall of Wickets : 1-3 Anik, 2-34 Shanto
Did Not Bat : Joy, Das, Chowdhury, Miraz, Ahmed, Hossain, Islam
Bowling : Trent Boult 5 – 3 – 4 – 0, Tim Southee 5 – 2 – 21 – 1,
Kyle Jamieson 3.5 – 1 – 12 – 1 ( 2w), Neil Wagner 3 – 1 – 4 – 0 (1nb).