Bangladesh v West Indies – 1st Test – 1st Day’s Summary
The first Test between hosts http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 kicked off on Saturday, October 29 at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh.
The two sides will be playing two-Tests in the series and it is imperative for both teams to take an early lead by grabbing a win in the first match.
After losing the One Day International (ODI) series by 2-1, Bangladesh would want to redeem lost pride in front of their countrymen by humiliating the tourists in the ongoing Test series.
After winning the toss, West Indies chose to bat first in a bid to score maximum runs in their first innings to leave the hosts flabbergasted.
While Bangladesh eyed early inroads to shatter West Indies plans of taking a flying start in the fixture.
From West Indies right-hand batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kieran-Omar-Akeem-Powell-c71441 initiated the innings to take full advantage of the batting conditions at Mirpur.
The duo shot down Bangladesh’s plans of dominating them as they overcame the bowling brigade by exhibiting stupendous batting, leaving the Bangladesh bowling out of ideas.
The two batsmen gave their side an opening stand of 100 runs as they seemed unbeatable while batting together against the hosts who before the match were looking pretty well prepared, however, on match day they were completely pulverised by the West Indian
openers who kept slaughtering the bowlers at random.
It was finally in the 33rd over when Bangladesh struck by grabbing the wicket of Brathwaite who was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imrul-Kayes-c64265 at gully after smashing 50 runs off 102 deliveries.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kirk-Anton-Edwards-c71510 was the next man in as he also provided a potent support to his fellow batsman Powell who was batting superbly well on the other end.
Bangladesh needed to grab a couple of more wickets to put the West Indians under pressure, however, the duo forged a resilient stand against the opposition leaving the hosts helpless and without a clue as to how to make another breakthrough.
The two batsmen posted 55 runs together before allowing Bangladesh to strike again as the hosts grabbed the wicket of Powell in the 55th over who was bowled-out by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Suhrawadi-Shuvo-c91688 after playing an exuberant knock of 72 runs off 150 deliveries.
In the later stage part of the day, Bangladesh spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Nasir-Hossain-c77146 made a pleasant impact on the game by grabbing two wickets, reducing the West Indian middle-order to rubble which ultimately prevented the remaining batsmen from taking too many risks as
they wanted keep wickets in hand at the end of the day.
At stumps Edwards was unbeaten on 71 runs alongside http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marlon-Nathaniel-Samuels-c74804 on 16 runs as West Indies posted 253 runs on the board for the loss of five wickets.
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