Bangladesh went from looking like losing by an innings to beating West Indies on a compelling day three Saturday🦹 of tꦡhe first test.
A brilliant rearguard stand by captain Shakib Al Hasan and Nurul Ha🦄san saved Bangladesh from an innings defe꧒at.
But when they were all out for 245 runs, they left West Indie♏s only 8🍎4 to win with more than two days left at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
The target suddenly looked like 840, though, when Bangladesh medium-pacer Khaled Ahmed took three wickets in 11 balls and reduced West Indies🌳 to 9-3 in the fourth over of the chase.
Opener John Camp﷽bell and Jermaine Blackwood eased the tension by holding out to stumps and leading West Indies to 49-3. The team should knock off the remaining 35 runs on Sunday morning in the series opener.
Ahmed gave West Indies a good scare.
He had West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite caught down the leg side for 1 from his first delivery🗹, and Raymon Reifer gloving his💮 fifth delivery on 2. Nkrumah Bonner hadn’t scored when his off stump was bowled by Ahmed.
Campbell, 28 not out, and Blackwood, 17 not out, c﷽ombined for 40 to get the home side back on track.
W♛est Indies💃 seemed in the morning like it was going to wrap up the match by mid-afternoon.
Bangladesh was reeling at 109-6 in🌸 the second innings and still trailing West Indies by🐷 53 runs when Shakib and Nurul came together in the morning.
But showing the patience most of their teammates didn’t on a good batting track, they rubbed out the first-innings deficit through a wicketless middle session, and pushed Bangladesh 70 runs ahead when they were broken up soon after tea💮.
With the new ball, West Indies pacer Kemar Roach𒆙 made Shakib dr🐻ive straight to a man at short extra cover.
🔴Shakib was out forꦰ 63, his third straight test half-century and second of the match. His demise ended a 123-run stand with Nurul.
They seemed to match each other run for run, as N𝓀urul was on 60 at the time. He was out for 64 after 147 balls, also bagged by Roach.
Bangladesh started the day on 50-2 and got into deeper trouble with poor shots to reꦯgulation deliveries.
Najmul Hossain Shanto went from 8 overn🌠ight to guiding Kyle Mayers to the slips on 17, then Mominul Haque was leg before to Mayers and not saved by a review. Mominul’s score of 4 was his ninth straight test score in single figures, and his 10th of 11 this year.
Liton Das was caught by Mayers in the slips, and Mahmudul Hasan Joy’s stoic 42 that started la🅘te Friday ended four overs from lunch when he was caught behind off Roach, going for a wide ball he should have left alone. He’d endured 153 balls.
Shakib and Nurul dug in and West Indies wasted its la♛st two reviews after lu🦂nch trying to get them out. Ultimately, it had to wait for the new ball, and Roach delivered.
Roach conceded the only six of the Bangladesh second iꦑnnings when Mustafizur Rahman blasted him over the third man boundary, but Roach had the last say by ending the innings by bowling Ebadot Hossain.
Th❀at gave Roach his 10th test five-for (5-53), and tied him with Michael Holding on the West Indies wicket-taking list: 249 and sixth place.
Alzarri Joseph took 3-55 and Mayers 2-30.
