Bangladesh batted out the last day in Sylhet to draw the second Test against West Indies, reaching 184 for 4 in a chase of 369 before bad light ended play. The draw hands West Indies the two-match series 1-0 after their eight-wicket win in Mirpur, bdnews24 reported.
Towhid Hridoy made 82 and Mushfiqur Rahim 49 in a third-wicket stand of more than a hundred that took Bangladesh from 49 for 2 at lunch to 162 for 2 at tea. Mushfiqur became the first Bangladesh batter to 7,000 Test runs on the way. According to bdnews24, it is Bangladesh’s first home Test draw since 2022.
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Key points
- Bangladesh were 184 for 4 chasing 369 when bad light ended the Test with 19 overs left
- West Indies win the two-match series 1-0 after their eight-wicket win in Mirpur
- Hridoy’s 242 not out and 82 make 324 runs, a Bangladesh record for one Test; Mushfiqur passed 7,000 Test runs
How the final day went
West Indies resumed on 345 for 3 and declared on 398 for 6. Kavem Hodge made 142 off 194 balls before Nayeem Hasan had him caught by Hasan Mahmud. Kevin Wickham added 78 to his first-innings 61, and bdnews24 says he is the first West Indian in 48 years to make two fifties on Test debut.
Jomel Warrican removed Tanzid Hasan for 21 and Najmul Hossain Shanto for 14 before lunch. After tea he got Hridoy as he swept, a decision the third umpire confirmed, and Shamar Joseph had Mushfiqur one short of his fifty. Litton Das and Mehidy Hasan Miraz were together when the umpires took the players off with 19 overs still to bowl, The Daily Star reported. It was not the first time the light had cut a day short in this Test.
324 for Hridoy, 7,000 for Mushfiqur
Hridoy’s unbeaten 242 in the first innings and his 82 make 324 runs in the match, past Mominul Haque’s 281 as the most by a Bangladesh batter in one Test. He was player of the match. Mushfiqur now has 7,031 runs from 107 Tests, The Daily Star said.
“From my childhood, I follow Mushi bhai and he’s my idol,” Hridoy said after the match.
Sixteen wickets for Warrican, and a spin problem
Warrican was player of the series with 16 wickets, and The Daily Star pointed out that Bangladesh’s three spinners took only as many between them. Shanto did not dress it up. “We should have won this Test match. We didn’t bat well in the first innings, which cost us this Test match,” he said, and added: “The spin bowlers didn’t bowl well.”
His one consolation was the seamers, led by Hasan Mahmud’s 6 for 90 on the first day. “The good thing is the way the pace bowlers bowled,” Shanto said. The selectors had already gone that way: the squad for South Africa, named on Monday morning, swaps off-spinner Nayeem for fast bowler Khaled Ahmed and carries five seamers.
Market watch for South Africa
- The first Test starts at the Wanderers on 15 November and the second at Centurion on 23 November. Six days is a short turnaround after a full five days in Sylhet.
- Bangladesh’s spinners managed 16 wickets in two Tests on home pitches, the same as Warrican alone. On Highveld surfaces, Hasan and Taskin Ahmed look the likelier names in Bangladesh bowler markets.
- Shadman Islam is out with an ankle fracture, so the opening pair will be new. Tanzid made 21 here; Naim Sheikh or the uncapped Mahfijul Islam Robin joins him, which matters for opening-stand lines.
- Hridoy, with 324 runs in this Test, and Mushfiqur are the batters in form for top-batter markets.
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