Routed for just 43, their lowest-ever Test innings total, in the first innings, Bangladesh still need another 301 runs just to make the West Indies bat again going into day three.
Bangladesh were sliding towards a massive innings defeat after the West Indies completely dominated the second day of the first Test match
at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on
Thursday. After Kraigg Brathwaite's seventh Test hundred anchored the West Indies first innings total of 406 to give the home side a first innings lead of 363, Shannon Gabriel compensated for a wicketless effort on the opening day with figures of four for 36 to reduce the visitors to 62 for six in their second turn at the crease by the close of play. Routed for just 43, their lowest-ever Test innings total, in the first innings, the Bangladeshis still need another 301 runs just to make the West Indies bat again going into day three.
Thursday. After Kraigg Brathwaite's seventh Test hundred anchored the West Indies first innings total of 406 to give the home side a first innings lead of 363, Shannon Gabriel compensated for a wicketless effort on the opening day with figures of four for 36 to reduce the visitors to 62 for six in their second turn at the crease by the close of play. Routed for just 43, their lowest-ever Test innings total, in the first innings, the Bangladeshis still need another 301 runs just to make the West Indies bat again going into day three.
That looks an impossible prospect in conditions which are completely
alien to them and in which the home side's quartet of fast bowlers has
revelled.
But for a no-ball delivered by Miguel Cummins in the
last over of the day when he could have claimed the wicket of
Mahmudullah, the West Indies would have had the option of requesting an
additional half-hour at the end of the day to finish off the match.