WATCH: Peak Bangladesh! SEVEN runs with no boundaries off the bat in one ball

After pulling one on the Kiwis in the first Test of the series to leave cricket fans raving, Bangladesh did not have the greatest of starts to the second Test as New Zealand’s opening pair of Tom Latham and Will Young put on a century stand.

The build up to the second Test at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch was spiced up by pictures of a lush green pitch doing rounds a day or two before the match. However, the grass was shaved off and we had a hard, good deck for batting. Bangladesh, though, seemed to be on a high after the last win, and opted to bowl first on winning the toss only to witness New Zealand make merry.

Latham and Young were solid right through the morning session, with Latham overturning two LBW calls against him in the ninth over after the umpire raised his fingers twice to Ebadot Hossain deliveries that rapped his pads. 

The next chance only came in the 26th over and it was a comedy of errors that saw Bangladesh concede seven runs in one ball instead of the one wicket that it should have been. 

Will Young nicked Ebadot to the slip cordon where second slip dove in front of first slip to drop a sitter. To add insult to injury, the ball raced to the third man fence where the ball was stopped and thrown back at the keeper’s end. The keeper took a needless shy at the non-striker’s end to try and effect a run out, but instead it rolled over to the other end with the bowler unable to stop the ball and resulted in seven runs off the one ball.

Comically the umpire was seen signalling seven runs with his fingers after all the chaos.

WATCH BANGLADESH CONCEDE SEVEN RUNS OFF ONE BALL HERE

Meanwhile, across the Tasman Sea…

Chaos in the field for Bangladesh as Will Young scores a seven (yes, you read that correctly!) #NZvBAN | BT Sport 3 HD pic.twitter.com/fvrD1xmNDd

— Cricket on BT Sport (@btsportcricket) January 9, 2022

Luckily for Bangladesh, the drop didn’t prove to be too costly as Shoriful dismissed Young soon after for 54 with the batter smashing a full ball straight to point to end a fruitful 148-run opening stand.

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