Right-arm spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz bagged four wickets for Bangladesh in the ongoing Antigua Test against the West Indies on Friday.  The West Indies ended up their first innings on 265 for all wickets ensuring a 162-run first-innings lead.  Kraigg Brathwaite, the West Indies captain, scored 94 while Nkrumah Bonner and Jermaine Blackwood came up with a fifty as well.  The hosts lost their last five wickets in just 41 runs, and four of them are taken by Mehidy who ended up taking four wickets conceding 59 runs in 22.5 overs. Khaled Ahmed and Ebadot Hossain bagged two wickets each.  Had Bangladesh not dropped at least four catches, the West Indies would have been wrapped up earlier.  Being behind by 162 runs, Bangladesh started their second innings and at the end of day two, they were batting at 50 for two. Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Najmul Hossain Shanto remained unbeaten for 18 and 8 respectively.  READ: England hits ODI world-record 498-4 against the Netherlands Bangladesh made a cautious start as the openers batted for 9.4 overs before Tamim Iqbal (22) fell victim to Alzarri Joseph who was the first changed bowler for the hosts.  Mehidy got to bat at number three— a surprising move from Bangladesh. But the right-handed batter, who has a ton against West Indies at home, failed to impress this time. He made 2 of 6 balls.  Bangladesh lost both the wickets to Alzarri Joseph.  Earlier, Bangladesh were bundled out for only 103 in the first innings. They suffered six ducks in that innings— which was the second consecutive instance when they suffered six ducks in a Test. The previous one was at home against Sri Lanka.  Shakib Al Hasan, the Bangladesh captain, was the only batter to have scored a fifty for the Tigers. Tamim scored 29, and Liton Das was the only other batter to reach a double-digit total with 12.  Jayden Seales and Joseph bagged three wickets each in the first innings.

Newly appointed Bangladesh Test captain Shakib Al Hasan said he seeks the players will perform as a team in the series against the West Indies starting on Thursday at Antigua. Shakib took over the role of the Test captain after previous captain Mominul Haque decided to step aside after failing to find a rhythm in captaincy. In the last series at home against Sri Lanka, Bangladesh lost 1-0 in two-match Test competition. “I’m looking for a team performance in this series,” Shakib told the reporters ahead of the first match. “We haven’t been able to play well in Tests recently. So this series is a great chance for us to prove everyone wrong and play well. We have to take a good performance from this Test.” The allrounder said he is not worried about his individual performance as he has done well against Sri Lanka at home. Also read: Siddons backs Shakib as captain In the last tour to the West Indies in 2018, Bangladesh failed to do well. But Shakib believes the situation is better now for Bangladesh and they are upbeat to display a good brand of cricket. The Bangladesh captain also said the wicket of Antigua looks completely different than he saw it earlier. “The wicket looks good to me. It would help the batters early on, but batting may get tough in the fourth innings of the match when spinners should come into the effect,” Shakib said. Bangladesh will not get the service of the veteran batter Mushfiqur Rahim who opted to not play this series for personal reasons. The visitors also lost Yasir Ali Rabbi, a middle-order batter, due to a back injury that he sustained during the tour match. Also read: Shakib Al Hasan's Captaincy Record in Test Cricket: An Overview To replace him, Bangladesh called in Anamul Haque Bijoy to the Test side after eight years. Anamul played his last Test in the venue where Bangladesh will play the second Test of this series— Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia. In this four-Test career, Anamul scored only 73 runs with the best of 22 runs. However, he has done well in First-class cricket since his last omission from the Test team in 2014. He will be available to play Tests ahead of the second match that would begin on June 24. He is now the youngest Bangladeshi batter to have scored 7000 or more runs in First-class cricket. He also has 22 centuries and 37 half-centuries in First-class cricket. Mustafizur Rahman, the left-arm pacer, is set to return to Test after a while. The pacer was not willing to play in the longer format of the game. But the team management convinced him to do so. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi fans might not be able to watch the Test series on television as no channel has shown interest to broadcast the game in Bangladesh. In that case, the spectators might need to turn to the internet to watch the game through alternative channels. The two-match Test series is a part of the ongoing cycle of the ICC World Test Championship. Apart from two Tests, Bangladesh will take on the hosts in a three-match ODI and three-match T20I series on this tour.