The New Zealand cricket team toured Bangladesh for two Test matches and three One Day International (ODI) matches in 2008–09. Bangladesh were under the captaincy of Mohammad Ashraful and the New Zealanders were led by Daniel Vettori. Starting on 9 October 2008, the New Zealanders won the ODI series 2-1 and the following Test series 1–0.

9 October (scorecard)

New Zealand  201/9 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 202/3 (45.3 overs)
Jacob Oram 57 (89) Mashrafe Mortaza 4/44 (10 overs)		Junaid Siddique 85 (139) Scott Styris 1/23 (6 overs)

Bangladesh won by 7 wickets Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Umpires: Daryl Harper (AUS) & Nadir Shah (BAN) Player of the match: Junaid Siddique

11 October (scorecard)

New Zealand  212/9 (50.0 overs)	v	Bangladesh 137 all out (42.4 overs)
Jacob Oram 75* (101) Syed Rasel 3/23 (10 overs)		Mohammad Ashraful 40 (120) Kyle Mills 3/13 (6.4 overs)

New Zealand won by 75 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Umpires: Daryl Harper (AUS) & Nadir Shah (BAN) Player of the match: Jacob Oram

14 October (scorecard)

New Zealand  249/7 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 170/8 (50 overs)
Ross Taylor 103 (119) Jacob Oram 2/16 (8 overs)		Naeem Islam 46 (106) Shakib Al Hasan 2/41 (10 overs)

New Zealand won by 79 runs Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Enamul Haque (BAN) & Daryl Harper (AUS) Player of the match: Ross Taylor (NZ)

17–21 October (scorecard)

Bangladesh	v	New Zealand
245 (122.1 overs) Mehrab Hossain jnr 83 (179) Daniel Vettori 5/59 (36 overs)		171 (64.5 overs) Daniel Vettori 55* (82) Shakib Al Hasan 7/36 (25.5 overs)
242 (107.3 overs) Shakib Al Hasan 71 (151) Daniel Vettori 4/74 (42 overs)		317/7 (137.5 overs) Aaron Redmond 79 (237) Abdur Razzak 3/93 (50 overs)

New Zealand won by 3 wickets Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Daniel Vettori (NZ)

25–29 October (scorecard)

New Zealand	v	Bangladesh
262/6 dec. (75 overs) Jesse Ryder 91(140) M Ashraful 1/7 (3 overs)		169/9 dec. (58.1 overs) Shakib Al Hasan 49(87) Daniel Vettori 5/66 (19 overs)
79/1 (19 overs) Jesse Ryder* 39(84) M Mortaza 1/14 (5 overs)

Match drawn Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Daryl Harper (Aus) Player of the match: Daniel Vettori (NZ)

• No play on days 1, 2 & 3

7 October

Bangladesh Cricket Board XI	v	New Zealand

Match abandoned without a ball bowled Fatullah Osmani Stadium, Fatullah

• Cricinfo page on the tour