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At the 25-over mark, in the quest for 337, Bangladesh was struggling at 129-4.

Once the breakthrough was made, the haste of Bangladesh's attack was slowed, and when skipper Daniel Vettori bowled the pace dropped to a crawl.

Vettori had 2-18 from his first five overs and the Duckworth/Lewis requirement was falling well away.

Bangladesh's opening batsmen, Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes raced to 71 two balls short of 11 overs. Tamim, especially, was effective through the off-side square of the wicket while Imrul proved stronger, blasting two sixes in his 33 before he fell off the 29th ball he faced, caught by wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum from McKay's bowling.

Regularly showing up on the speed radar around the 142km/h mark, McKay soon claimed the wicket of Mohammad Ashraful for five, when he departed in the same manner as Imrul.

Tamim carried on and passed 50 for the 13th time in ODIs, this time from 62 balls with eight boundaries.

Holding his partners proved the problem as Daniel Vettori snared Raqibul Hasan leg before wicket for nine and then three balls later it was Tamim who succumbed when attempting to push a ball from Vettori wide of McCullum, only to see the wicketkeeper hold the sharp chance.

Tamim scored 62 from 69 balls and with his departure Bangladesh was 119-4.

Earlier, ferocious hitting from in-form Neil Broom and a rampant Jacob Oram added 123 in 11.1 overs to resurrect New Zealand's batting effort.

New Zealand ended its 50 overs on 336-9.

Broom, who hit 71 from 73 balls, was playing only his 17th ODI and achieved his maiden 50 from 62 balls, while Oram produced a 28-ball half-century which included six fours and two sixes, and saw 22 taken from Nazmul Hossain's eighth over.

Broom continued the rampant form which has seen him top the aggregate in domestic one-day cricket in New Zealand this year with 320 runs, including a highest score of 164, and which has him averaging 94.33 in the Plunket Shield, with 566 runs and three centuries.

He was eventually run out after setting off for a single only to find bowler Shafiul Islam racing through to pick up and throw down the wicket before he could regain his ground off the first ball of the 48th over. He scored 71 from 73 balls.

Oram, who was bowled in the last over for 83, faced only 44 balls and hit eight fours and five sixes, hit his first half-century in 11 innings, ironically since his 75 in Bangladesh in 2008, and it was his 12th half-century in his 136th match.

They established a seventh-wicket record of 123, against all countries, surpassing the 115 scored by Adam Parore and Lee Germon against Pakistan in Sharjah in 1996.

Earlier debut player Peter Ingram took his chance and enjoyed a 98-run third-wicket partnership with Ross Taylor, who scored 51, after New Zealand had slumped to 19-2, but even at 166-5 the New Zealand innings looked likely to be unfulfilled.

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