Bangladesh beat West Indies by 101 runs to level Test series

Taijul Islam’s five-for helps the visitors triumph the 2nd Test astatine Sabina Park and level the two-match series.

Bangladesh person completed an awesome comeback to bushed West Indies successful the 2nd Test lucifer by 101 runs and grounds their archetypal triumph successful the Caribbean since 2009.

Taijul Islam snared 5 wickets for the 15th clip successful a Test innings to pb Bangladesh’s series-levelling triumph connected the 4th evening of the last Test of the bid astatine Sabina Park connected Tuesday.

After Jaker Ali’s Test-best innings of 91 lifted the tourists to 268 each retired successful their 2nd innings and near the location squad with a triumph people of 287, left-arm spinner Islam broke the backmost of the Caribbean side’s effort with 5-50 arsenic they were dismissed for 185 successful the day’s last session.

Fast bowler Nahid Rana, whose maiden five-wicket haul successful the archetypal innings pulled Bangladesh backmost into contention, had the restitution of administering the last rites erstwhile helium yorked the past man, Shamar Joseph, for his lone wicket of the innings.

“It’s a large feeling to triumph a Test lucifer overseas which we don’t often bash and each the boys truly enactment successful a tremendous effort,” said player-of-the-match Islam.

Seamers Taskin Ahmed and Hasan Mahmud took 2 wickets each, with Taskin emerging arsenic the starring wicket-taker successful the little bid with 11 victims to his name.

Kavem Hodge top-scored for the West Indies with 55, portion skipper Kraigg Brathwaite played with antithetic escapade astatine the apical of the bid contributing 43 disconnected 63 deliveries.

But they mislaid wickets astatine regular intervals and yet succumbed successful conscionable 50 overs arsenic Bangladesh swiftly avenged the 201-run mauling they endured successful the archetypal Test successful Antigua a week earlier.

“We wanted to beryllium affirmative and I thought we started well, but evidently we couldn’t transportation it done to the extremity of the day,” said a rueful Brathwaite.

This was Bangladesh’s archetypal Test triumph successful the West Indies since their 2-0 expanse implicit a depleted Caribbean broadside successful 2009.

Earlier Ali’s belligerent innings, which occupied 106 deliveries and was embellished by 8 fours and 5 sixes, tilted the equilibrium heavy successful favour of Bangladesh arsenic the highest palmy run-chase successful a Test astatine Sabina Park was the 212 achieved by the West Indies implicit Sri Lanka successful 2003.

Such was the grade of the 26-year-old right-hander’s dominance of the greeting that helium contributed 62 of the 75 runs added by the tourists aft resuming astatine the overnight presumption of 193-5.

Alzarri Joseph and Kemar Roach took 3 wickets each for the West Indies, Joseph ending Ali’s quest for a maiden Test 100 erstwhile helium was past out, caught astatine heavy midwicket a half-hour earlier lunch.

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