Watch cricket video highlights of Bangladesh tour of West Indies 2024. 1st Test between Bangladesh and West Indies. Venue of the match will be North Sound.
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On the second day of the Antigua Test, West Indies dominated Bangladesh, led by Justin Greaves’ first Test century. West Indies finished the day with two wickets from Bangladesh after his 115 helped them reach 450 for 9. With eight wickets remaining, the visitors were now 410 behind. Despite an overnight total of 250 for 5, it was a superb recovery after falling to 261 for 7. Kemar Roach, who batted for over four hours for 47, his best Test total in his 15-year career, shared the eighth wicket with Greaves, scoring 140 runs.
Greaves’ Super50 form, which included three straight hundreds earlier this month, was validated by his undefeated 115. He put out a patient effort, hitting only four boundaries during his stay of 206 balls. Alick Athanaze and Mikyle Louis had laid the groundwork with nineties on the first day, and this was the ideal follow-up. Despite struggling for 144.1 overs, Bangladesh was unable to bowl out the host team and kept giving up good situations with the ball. On the second day, Hasan Mahmud claimed three wickets.
Despite Taskin Ahmed’s hard work and one time hitting the edge of Greaves’ bat, no one objected. Taijul Islam and Mehidy Hasan Miraz, the stand-in skipper, both took three wickets between their combined 73.1 overs as spinners. Bangladesh must bat out for a maximum of one hour and forty-five minutes, according to the West Indies declaration. The four-man West Indian pace assault, however, gave them no reprieve. After under-edgeing a Jayden Seales ball onto his stumps, Zakir Hasan was dismissed for 15.
The left-hander was a little unfortunate with the ball slashing the leg-stump, but he did manage to hit three fours in his brief stay, all off Seales. Shortly after being dropped on the same score, Mahmudul Hasan Joy defeated Alzarri Joseph for five. After capturing two early wickets to start the day in the best possible fashion, the visitors had long since fallen behind. With the fifth ball of the morning session, Mahmud got rid of Joshua Da Silva, trapping him leg before wicket with a delivery that swerved into his front pad.
Despite bowling brilliantly on the opening day, this was Mahmud’s first wicket of the match. In addition, it was his 24th wicket of the year, which puts him ahead of Bangladesh’s fast bowlers in terms of the most wickets taken in a calendar year. When Mahmud’s next over saw Alzarri fall, that total rose to 25. Similar to how he began the Pakistan tour with Abdullah Shafique’s catch at Gully in August, Zakir made a fantastic two-handed catch there. Roach dampened any impression that Bangladesh had their chance to bowl out the West Indies for less than 300 runs.
Greaves was determined to grind out the Bangladesh onslaught, and he was the ideal foil. As the two didn’t give up any more wickets in the first session, Greaves occasionally passed the strike to Roach. The home team, who needed a recovery, was not particularly disturbed by the fact that there were just two boundaries in those 26 overs. Greaves pulled Taskin through midwicket to begin the second session with his third boundary. Taskin and wicketkeeper Jaker Ali, who was filling in for Litton Das during the first session, could not hear a slight nick, but he escaped a caught-behind chance on 77.
All that was seen on the large screen was a repeat of what Bangladesh had missed. The team’s first century partnership for the eighth wicket against Bangladesh was brought up shortly after by a Roach single. After a seven-minute rain break, Roach gave Mehidy his first boundary by slamming him over his head. Finally, Mahmud clipped the top of Roach’s middle-stump with a beautiful angled throw to dispatch him. For the seventh wicket, their 140-run partnership was the third-highest in the West Indies.
Greaves quickly drove Taijul through the covers with his fourth boundary shot to complete his century. The milestone was only his second first-class ton, and it could have been his greatest stroke of the innings. Following some meaty hits from their tail-enders Seales and Shamar Joseph, the West Indies declared in the 145th over of their innings. This gave the bowlers enough time to try, and they were successful.
