KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Bangladesh’s Mahedi Hasan starred with each bat and ball, and the guests ended their 15-year await a T20I win towards West Indies within the Caribbean by registering an thrilling seven-run victory within the opening T20I right here at Arnos Vale Sunday.
Participant-of-the-Match Mahedi Hasan hit an unbeaten 26, serving to to pilot Bangladesh to 147 for six of their 20 overs after the West Indies despatched them in to bat.
He then returned to seize 4-13, the most effective bowling figures by a visiting spinner towards West Indies in T20Is, as the house facet fell simply brief, being dismissed for 140 in 19.5 overs regardless of a combating half-century from skipper Rovman Powell, as Bangladesh took a 1-0 lead within the three-match sequence.
West Indies acquired off to a great begin when left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein bowled Tanzid Hasan after which had the struggling Litton Das caught and bowled off successive deliveries to go away the rating 15 for 2.
Afif Hossain’s reverse sweep then ended up within the arms of Hosein at brief third man off the bowling of Chase to make it 30 for 3.
Jaker Ali joined Soumya Sarkar, and the 2 added 57, the best partnership of the innings, to stem the autumn of wickets and resuscitate the innings.
Nonetheless, after scoring a run-a-ball 27, Ali picked out Powell on the long-on boundary, with the West Indies captain exhibiting good consciousness to flick the ball within the air as he was going over the boundary ropes earlier than returning to take the catch.
Sarkar hit the highest rating of 43 from 32 balls however was bowled by a slower supply from Obed McCoy to place West Indies within the ascendancy at 96 for 5 after 15 overs.
It took an outstanding effort from Mahedi Hasan and Shamim Hossain to get Bangladesh to their eventual whole. The pair scored 49 runs in below 5 overs to present their facet a blazing end to the innings.
Shamim blasted three sixes and one 4 in scoring 27 off 13 balls, whereas Mahedi Hasan completed unbeaten on 26 from 24 balls.
Hosein ended with 2-14 from his 4 overs, whereas McCoy took 2-30.
Enjoying their first worldwide match in St Vincent in 10 years, the West Indies acquired off to the worst potential begin when Taskin Ahmed dismissed Brandon King together with his first ball of the second over, and offspinner Mahedi Hasan had the harmful Nicholas Pooran stumped as the house facet slumped to 2 for 2.
Issues acquired worse for the Windies when Mahedi Hasan accounted for the wickets of Johnson Charles for 20, Andre Fletcher for a duck, and Roston Chase for seven, to have them stuttering on 38 for 5 within the seventh over.
And when Gudakesh Motie was caught behind off Tanzim Hasan Sakib’s bowling, Rishad Hossain dismissed Akeal Hosein for 2. The match appeared all however over at 61 for seven.
However Powell discovered a associate in Romario Shepherd, and so they mixed in a 67-run partnership to make sure an exhilarating finish to the competition.
They took 15 runs off Rishad Hossain within the 14th over, and within the subsequent over, bowled by Taskin Ahmed, Powell bludgeoned him for 3 sixes in an over that went for 23 runs.
Powell finally introduced up his ninth T20 half-century off simply 28 balls by edging Sakib over the wicketkeeper and to the boundary within the ensuing over.
The West Indies would have been favored to win the match with 20 runs required off 18 balls with Powell and Shepherd on the rampage, however the former was dismissed by Ahmed for 22, caught at deep midwicket with the primary ball of the 18th over.
With 10 wanted off the ultimate over bowled by Mahmud, Powell might solely get a thick outdoors edge off the third ball as he appeared to smash him by the offside and was caught behind for 60 from 35 balls, inclusive of 5 boundaries and 4 sixes.
Mahmud then delivered the ultimate rites by bowling Joseph off the penultimate ball of the match to spark wild celebrations within the Bangladesh camp.