Taijul Islam, the left-arm spinner, recorded his maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs in his first match in two years, and riding on his tremendous bowling effort Bangladesh wrapped up the hosts West Indies for 178 runs for all in 48.4 overs in the third and final ODI of the three-match series on Saturday in Guayana. 

Taijul, often considered a Test bowler, was playing only his 10th ODI in seven years. He bagged his first wicket on Saturday removing Brandon King for eight. It was a beautiful delivery from the left-hander. The ball tossed up at the middle of the leg and middle stumps and turned to the off-stump and uprooted it. 

Taijul never looked back after that. He ended up taking five wickets including the one of Nicholas Pooran who hit the highest (73) for the hosts conceding 28 runs. 

Taijul’s five for 28 is now the best bowling record in ODI for Bangladeshi spinners. He surpassed Abdur Razzak who had taken five for 29 against Zimbabwe in 2009 in Mirpur. 

Bangladesh won the toss in this match and opted to bowl first aiming to clean sweep the hosts. 

Three of West Indies’ first five batters failed to reach a double-digit score. They lost the first three wickets inside 16 runs. But in the fourth-wicket stand, Keacy Carty and Pooran added 67 runs. The stand was broken by another left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed who ended up taking two for 39 runs. 

Pooran was firm at one end of the wicket while the other batters failed to impress against the quality spin-attack of Bangladesh led by Taijul. 

Mosaddek Hossain, the right-arm spinning allrounder, bowled 10 overs to take one wicket, but he conceded only 23 runs. 

Bangladesh have already won the series, now the visitors are needing 179 runs to clean sweep the hosts. 

Ahead of the ODIs, both teams locked horns in a two-match Test and three-match T20I series with Bangladesh losing all the matches except a T20I which ended in no-result due to bad weather.