MIRPUR, Bangladesh (AP) — Bevon Jacobs hit his maiden half-century as New Zealand recovered from a shaky start to beat Bangladesh by six wickets in the rain-hit third T20 on Saturday, concluding the three-match series at 1-1.
Jacobs' 31-ball 62 not out, including five fours and three sixes, helped his side reach 104-4 in 11.4 overs, chasing down Bangladesh’s 102 all out in 14.2 overs.
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New Zealand's Bevon Jacobs shakes hands with Bangladesh's players after winning the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
New Zealand's Bevon Jacobs plays a shot during the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
Bangladesh and New Zealand players pose with the trophy after having drawn the series of T20 international cricket match in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
New Zealand's Dean Foxcroft plays a shot during the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
New Zealand's Bevon Jacobs plays a shot during the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
Bangladesh had won the first match by six wickets. The second match was rained out.
On Saturday, pacer Shoriful Islam gave Bangladesh a glimmer of hope by claiming three wickets for just four runs in his first two overs as New Zealand was at struggling 25-3 in fourth over.
Offspinner Mahedi Hasan further put the visitors in trouble when he dismissed stand-in skipper Nick Kelly, leaving New Zealand 33-4.
Bangladesh skipper Litton Das continued with Shoriful, but Jacobs struck him for consecutive boundaries to ease the pressure. The pacer eventually finished with 3-19.
Jacobs brought up his fifty off 29 balls. He sealed the win with a boundary and a six in quick succession.
Bangladesh’s innings was interrupted by rain after New Zealand had put them into bat first.
The rain halted the game for more than two hours, reducing it to a 15-over game.
Bangladesh had already slumped to 50-3 in 6.4 overs, losing first three wickets in 14 balls before the rain arrived.
However, after the resumption of the game, Bangladesh’s strategy to hit every ball didn’t serve it well.
It paid the price by losing the last seven wickets for 39 runs in 35 balls.
Towhid Hridoy was the top-scorer for the side with 33 while Das made 26. Opener Saif Hassan chipped-in-with 16.
Apart from them, no one could make it double digits.
Pacer Josh Clarkson registered his career-best 3-9 in two overs, becoming the standout bowler for New Zealand.
Ben Sears and Nathan Smith grabbed two wickets apiece to support him in ripping out Bangladesh innings.
Leg-spinner Ish Sodhi took 1-22 to become the top wicket-taker for New Zealand with 165, going past Tim Southee’s 164.
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New Zealand's Bevon Jacobs shakes hands with Bangladesh's players after winning the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
New Zealand's Bevon Jacobs plays a shot during the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
Bangladesh and New Zealand players pose with the trophy after having drawn the series of T20 international cricket match in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
New Zealand's Dean Foxcroft plays a shot during the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
New Zealand's Bevon Jacobs plays a shot during the third T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosaraf Hossain)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The folksy wisdom and jokes that were a staple of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting for decades when Warren Buffett was leading the show will be missing Saturday, but shareholders still started lining up at midnight outside a Nebraska arena to listen to new CEO Greg Abel.
Attendance is down significantly this year with the arena only a little over half full as the meeting started. That’s much different from the past few years when more than 40,000 attended to listen to the 95-year-old Buffett and — before his death in 2023, Buffett’s longtime partner Charlie Munger was always part of the fun. Buffett gave up the CEO title in January, but he remains chairman and will be sitting with the rest of the Berkshire board on the floor to listen at the meeting.
Saturday’s meeting began with a video tribute to Buffett filled with clips from the previous 60 years of annual meetings. The first clip showed the standing ovation Buffett received last year after he surprised shareholders by announcing that he would step down.
Abel then announced the symbolic move of retiring jerseys with Buffett’s and Munger’s names on them that will hang in the rafters of the arena.
Buffett took the microphone briefly to praise Abel and recognize Apple CEO Tim Cook, who attended the meeting. Buffett said Abel has done a tremendous job so far, and Cook helped Berkshire's initial $35 billion investment in Apple grow to be worth $185 billion today. Cook even got a longer round of applause than Buffett did when he was introduced.
“Greg is doing everything I did and then some,” Buffett said, so his decision to step down has worked out great so far.
Abel has been on stage next to the legendary investor at the annual meetings for several years, but this year is his first time running the show. Investors expect the conversation to focus more on how the dozens of companies Berkshire owns are doing. The conglomerate owns major insurers like Geico, several major utilities like Pacificorp, BNSF railroad and an assortment of manufacturers, retail and service businesses.
Signs of the transition are peppered throughout the 200,000-square-foot exhibit hall where shareholders buy products from Berkshire companies. A caricature of Abel playing his favorite sport of hockey is front and center on commemorative boxes of See’s Candy with Buffett and Mrs. See in the background in hockey gear. At the Pilot Travel Center booth pictures of Abel and Buffett are plastered on the windshield of a semitrailer truck, but Abel is in the driver’s seat. And this year Jazwares created a Squishmallow version of Abel to go with the latest versions of Buffett and his longtime partner Charlie Munger as stuffed dolls that shareholders lined up to buy.
“Sadly we miss Warren and Charlie and that show which was fun, but it’s a business meeting for a lot of us and hearing what the businesses are doing is what it’s all about,” investor Chris Bloomstran, who is president of Semper Augustus Investments Group said.
But also many people travel to Omaha primarily to meet up with like-minded value investors, who practice the approach that Buffett employed, and attend some of the investment conferences and meetings that are scheduled around Berkshire’s shareholder meeting.
“That’s why I’m really here, really here is to network with other people,” said Bob Robotti, who runs his own investment company. He doesn’t expect surprises from Abel and the other Berkshire executives at the meeting. “They shouldn’t say anything that would be shocking and surprising because they’re consistent with what they do.”
Many investors are watching closely for any changes Abel might make, but there’s not a lot of reason expect anything big. After all, Abel has been with Berkshire for more than 25 years, and he had already been managing all of the conglomerate’s noninsurance businesses for nearly eight years by the time he was promoted.
Abel did make a few administrative changes to establish a team to help support him, but he has promised to maintain Berkshire’s culture that allows the CEOs of all of its businesses to largely run their day-to-day operations while consulting with headquarters on any major investments and sending any extra cash to Omaha.
The CEOs of Dairy Queen, See’s Candy, Jazwares and Brooks Running all said very little has changed since Abel was promoted other than they now report to NetJets CEO Adam Johnson who is overseeing 32 retail and service businesses.
“I think this is a very deeply rooted culture that Warren has created, and I believe the transition to Greg is going to be rooted in those values that Warren has for 60 years instituted and will continue,” Brooks CEO Dan Sheridan said.
For years Buffett always said he was having too much fun running Berkshire to ever retire, but once the shock of his announcement in the final minutes of last years meeting wore off the company’s executives quickly agreed this plan for the transition was better so Buffett can still be around to advise Abel.
“Berkshire is as strong today as it’s ever been and Warren is still part of it,” DQ CEO Troy Bader said as his staff sold Dilly Bars to shareholders. “Warren is still present. So that’s the greatest combination right now, to be able to have that transition in leadership where Greg and Warren can still work together.”
Abel is known to be a more demanding and hands-on boss than Buffett ever was, but he does that by challenging Berkshire’s CEOs to strengthen their competitive advantages while taking care of their customers. Abel asks tough questions and offers advice that his CEOs appreciate, but he doesn’t tell them exactly what to do.
And with Buffett remaining Berkshire’s chairman and its largest shareholder it’s unlikely that Abel will make any drastic changes. So shareholders shouldn’t expect Berkshire to start paying a dividend or that Abel will suddenly split the company up. Instead, Abel will continue building on the foundation Buffett established over 60 years.
Robotti said the performance of Berkshire’s businesses should be much more important to shareholders than the entertainment value of the annual meetings.
“My hope and expectation are they’re picking people who have competency in running a business and not necessarily public speakers and presenters,” Robotti said.
Berkshire said Saturday morning that its profits more than doubled in the first-quarter to $10.1 billion, or $7,027 per Class A share, as the value of its investments grew and most of its businesses improved.
The paper value of Berkshire’s investments always has a major impact on its bottom line, and it did record a $5.8 billion gain on the stocks it did sell. The value of the portfolio did slip to just over $288 billion.
Berkshire’s massive cash pile continues to grow, and it hit $397.4 billion at the end of the first quarter.
Most of Berkshire’s varied businesses reported better operating earnings this year. The insurance unit that includes Geico and a number of other companies reported an underwriting profit of $1.7 billion, up from $1.34 billion last year. Profits also grew somewhat at BNSF railroad and Berkshire’s utility and manufacturing companies.
Author and former Omaha World-Herald reporter Steve Jordan signs copies of his book at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders event on Friday, May 1, 2026 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)
A Berkshire Hathaway shareholder takes a selfie in front of a Pilot truck stops semi truck with pictures of Berkshire's top two executives behind the wheel: new CEO Greg Abel and Chairman Warren Buffett on Friday, May 1, 2026 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)
Berkshire Hathaway shareholders stand in line to purchase Squishmallows versions of the company's top executives: CEO Greg Abel, Chairman Warren Buffett and former Vice Chairman Charlie Munger on Friday, May 1, 2026 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)
Berkshire Hathaway shareholders line up to buy products at the Pampered Chef booth behind a cutout of longtime CEO Warren Buffett who stepped down in January on Friday, May 1, 2026 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)
Shareholders line up to take pictures with depictions of Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO Greg Abel and Chairman Warren Buffett on Friday, May 1, 2026 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)
