``Come on CD!'' a fan at McLean Park, Napier, yelled out towards the end of the Black Caps' innings.
The three-pack CD soundtrack of leather on willow didn't disappoint, resonating to the tune of 336 runs for nine wickets in yesterday's first one-day international against Bangladesh.
The Central Districts trio of Peter Ingram, Ross Taylor and Jacob Oram were in their groove as New Zealand thumped Bangladesh by 146 runs.
The tourists had a chance to stop Oram short in his tracks in 43.4 overs but bowler Nazmul Hossain and fielder Shafiul Islam almost collided at mid on chasing a mistimed pitch-wedge shot.
Shafiul did five balls before the Kiwis' allotted 50 overs but by then the batsman had already wreaked havoc.
Having brought up his 50 in the 45th over from 28 balls in 34 minutes, the veteran allrounder departed for 83 runs, including five sixes and eight boundaries off 40 balls in an hour at the crease.
A couple of lusty sixes kept the once-noted cantankerous Graham Lowe Stand corporate wallahs on their toes.
Neil Broom, of Otago, who came in after Taylor departed for 51 runs in 52 balls, was the only non-CD batsmen to deliver, racking up 71 runs before he was run out for the second-highest total.
But such knocks from the likes of Oram, Taylor and Broom are the norm. For New Zealand, it was again the sensible knock of opener Ingram that gave a glimpse of what this late bloomer can do for his country.
The 31-year-old from Taranaki scored 69 runs on debut before falling victim to fast-medium pacer offspinner Shafiul Islam, who was the pick of the bowlers with four wickets.
It was a blessing in disguise again that Mohammad Ashraful had run out fellow opener Brendon McCullum for a nine-ball duck. Twenty20 aside, the wicketkeeper is perhaps better suited to slipping down to the lower middle order for some much-needed slog fest later in the innings.
McCullum, Martin Guptill and James Franklin's impatience will have new coach Mark Greatbatch reaching out for his worry beads before the test match on February 15 at Seddon Park, Hamilton, and the impending litmus test against Australia.
After the T20 meltdown on Wednesday in Hamilton, all the talk was about how the Bangladeshis needed to lift their game to lure apathetic crowds through the turnstiles.
They did with aplomb. It was a professional-looking outfit yesterday as the tourists put their bodies on the line after New Zealand won the toss and opted to bat.
The tourists adopted an exciting brand of play. They fielded and bowled aptly in the first 35 overs, albeit losing the plot under pressure from the Oram-Broom onslaught.
Havelock North premier club team player/coach Mohammad Al-Saharia Rokon was privy to the tourists' after-net practice brainstorming session on Thursday night.
``They were quite upset about the Twenty20 but they are pretty young boys and they told me they were going to play today,'' said the 32-year-old who represented Bangladesh before settling here.
Al-Sahariar said his countrymen needed to preserve wickets to launch for victory. The tourists had only conceded a leg bye in their first three overs and McCullum had departed before Ingram deftly scored the first run off the bat down leg side. The advent of first-change bowlers saw Taylor and Ingram up the run rate.
With history against them, Bangladesh began the mammoth run chase with vigour, mirroring the Caps' by bringing up 100 runs from exactly 18.5 overs for the loss of two wickets and muting the home crowd.
Left-hand opener Tamim Iqbal Khan, looked settled before feathering a Daniel Vettori delivery to McCullum for 62 runs midway through their innings. The wheels seem to be falling off at 119-4 and by that stage foreign scribes were placing $100 bets on an 87-run defeat.
Injudicious shots started creeping as a bugle started playing the Last Post as the Bangla boys slumped to 133-5 in 27.1 overs as the run rate crept to 9.45 runs an over. The writing was on the wall.
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