Gayle went for a breezy 58 (93/2)
Darren Bravo made 53 (144/3)
Ramdin made 34 (171/4)
Pollard made 26 (222/5)
Simmons made 40 (231/6)
Dwayne Bravo made 6 (231/7)
50 overs West Indies 247 for 7 (Gayle 58, Darren Bravo 53, Mashrafe 3-39) v Bangladesh
The Bangladesh bowlers maintained a stranglehold on the West Indies batsmen in the second ODI at St George's as the home side made 247 for 7 after they were put into bat on the same pitch as the first match two days ago.
Chris Gayle and Darren Bravo struck half centuries but West Indies may regret changing batting positions of Lendl Simmons and Denesh Ramdin as they failed to get the best out of both. Simmons struggled to put bat to ball, while Ramdin hardly made use of batting at No 4.
Mashrafe Mortaza took three wickets but it were the spinners - Mahmudullah, Abdur Razzak and Sohag Gazi - who led the way. The trio shared just two wickets in 30 overs, but bowled tight lines and ensured the West Indies batsmen never got away.
For the second game in a row, Kirk Edwards missed a ball that tailed into his stumps. His bat came down diagonally and got him into a tangle. Al-Amin Hossain took advantage of Edwards' technical error, ripping up the off stump.
Chris Gayle was tied down for a while after the first wicket, but he broke free in the fifth over, hammering Mashrafe for a straight six before pulling Al-Amin over wide long-on in the next over. Darren Bravo at the other end took his time, and let Gayle take care of the scoring.
Sixes flew in, three more, as Gayle patiently waited for the Bangladesh bowlers to drop short or bowl full. Darren Bravo got just two boundaries during this time - one edged between first and third slip and the other glided through midwicket.
Gayle scored three fours and four sixes as he moved to his first 50 since June last year. It was a stop-start innings, lacking the tempo associated with Gayle's innings of past. He was either picking up a boundary or a six, or nothing. He was soon dismissed though, thumping a long hop from Mahmudullah down midwicket's throat.
Darren Bravo continued to struggle but hit a straight six off Abdur Razzak, who was only introduced after Gayle was dismissed. Mushfiqur Rahim ensured Gayle and Bravo faced right-arm off-spin exclusively during their partnership, going with the trend among recent Bangladesh captains of only employing spinners who take the ball away from batsmen.
Neither Mahmudullah nor Razzak disappointed their captain. The experienced left-arm spinner hardly gave anything away apart from the six, tying down Ramdin and Simmons.
The fourth wicket partnership between the two batsmen brought West Indies just 27 runs in 7.3 overs, which also consumed 27 balls from the batting Powerplay. Only 21 runs came during the Powerplay.
Kieron Pollard couldn't repeat his first ODI heroics, but he did strike two fours and a six. It was not enough as Simmons continued to bat slowly at the other end. Pollard was furious with himself when he bottom-edged a short delivery from Mashrafe in the 47th over on to his stumps.
Simmons' struggled ended in the penultimate over when he jumped down the track for the umpteenth time but couldn't connect. He holed out to Mahmudullah at long-on. Bravo fell off the next ball to Mashrafe, giving the pace bowler a chance at a hat-trick. But Sunil Narine averted it.
| West Indies innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | CH Gayle | c Sohag Gazi b Mahmudullah | 58 | 67 | 3 | 5 | 86.56 | |
| 21.2 51.5 mph, Gayle is gone! not the most threatening of deliveries from Mahmudullah, but it is good enough to get the big wicket, it was shortish ball that stayed a bit low, Gayle had loads of time to pick his spot and dispatch it, he picks out the man at deep midwicket though, Mahmudullah is elated, Gayle grins ruefully, knowing he has given it away 93/2 | ||||||||
| KA Edwards | b Al-Amin Hossain | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| 1.6 83.0 mph, the off stump is cartwheeling there! Al amin has struck, Edwards didn't look comfortable at all in the middle, he won't have to spend any more time there, a short of length ball that cuts in to hit the top of off stump, not entirely sure what Edwards was doing there, no footwork as he tries to keep that delivery out, he can't, he's on his way 5/1 | ||||||||
| DM Bravo | lbw b Sohag Gazi | 53 | 82 | 2 | 1 | 64.63 | |
| 31.6 54.8 mph, huge lbw appeal, and Gazi has his reward after a tight over, the well-set Bravo is dismissed, it was an arm ball from Gazi, Bravo ends up playing down the wrong line, he was expecting the conventional offbreak, struck in line, Aleem Dar doesn't need much time to make up his mind, Bravo is on his way 144/3 | ||||||||
| D Ramdin† | c †Mushfiqur Rahim b Al-Amin Hossain | 34 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| 39.3 72.6 mph, Al-Amin shows some bowling nous as he drops the pace on this delivery, bowling in the same channel as before. Simmons, who was looking increasingly fidgety outside that off stump, this time looks to blast the bowler down the ground, but only succeeds in getting a thick outside edge which carries to Mushfiqur, who takes a good, low catch 171/4 | ||||||||
| LMP Simmons | c Mahmudullah b Mashrafe Mortaza | 40 | 61 | 3 | 0 | 65.57 | |
| 48.3 74.0 mph, this time uses his feet to get to the pitch as he lifts this high and handsome over long on, but doesn't get the distance required as this falls into the waiting hands of Mahmudullah, who ends up taking a straightforward catch. Ends a miserable stay at the crease for Simmons, who never really had the kind of fluency he craved for. 231/6 | ||||||||
| KA Pollard | b Mashrafe Mortaza | 26 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 130.00 | |
| 46.4 75.9 mph, and it's all over as Pollard, looking for a big hit through long on, gets an under edge which spills behind onto his stumps, rearranging them much to his chagrin. Big wicket there for Bangladesh as this is the kind of situation Pollard would have loved to be around for. 222/5 | ||||||||
| DJ Bravo* | c †Mushfiqur Rahim b Mashrafe Mortaza | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| 48.4 73.8 mph, this is just what the doctor ordered for Bangladesh as this time Bravo, looking to pull across the line of this shorter one outside off, ends up getting an outside edge which Mushfiqur snaps up gleefully. Mortaza on a hat-trick, and West Indies' hopes of quick runs looking rather grim 231/7 | ||||||||
| JO Holder | not out | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 200.00 | ||
| SP Narine | not out | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 175.00 | ||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 2, w 12) | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs) | 247 | (4.94 runs per over) | |||||
Bangladesh: Anamul 6 given OUT, did review not enough evidence to overturn it (12/1)
Kayes made 1 (27/2)
Shamsur bowled (42/3)
Mushfiqur caught behind 6 (57/4)
Mahmudullah gone first ball (57/5)
Tamim Iqbal gone 37 (57/6)
Gazi gone for 2 (60/7)
Nasir gone for 6 (66/8)
Mortaza gone LBW for 2 (70/9)
Al-Amin run out (70 all out)
West Indies 247 for 7 (Gayle 58, Darren Bravo 53, Mashrafe 3-39) beat Bangladesh 70 (Tamim 37, Narine 3-13, Roach 3-19) by 177 runs
There was promise of a contest when West Indies were restricted to 247, but all hope evaporated by the 17th over when Sunil Narine prompted a collapse that virtually guaranteed a Bangladesh defeat.
Tamim Iqbal, playing his most composed knock in ten months, became the third wicket in the space of seven balls, and with that Bangladesh's chances were almost extinguished.
West Indies eventually won by 177 runs - their largest victory over Bangladesh, who were shot out for 70 - completing their first ODI series win since February 2013. They did enough with the bat, and then toyed with Bangladesh's patience with the ball.
Narine, so threatening but wicketless in the first ODI, waded into the Bangladesh batting line-up with three wickets. He set the alarm bells ringing when he removed captain Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah off consecutive balls in the 16th over.
Narine produced a delivery that bounced more than Mushfiqur anticipated and took the edge, and later bowled one that kept slightly low but went straight past Mahmudullah's bat to hit the off stump.
Tamim fell in the next over, unable to keep Roach's bounce down and gave Chris Gayle a simple catch at midwicket. From 57 for 3 it became 57 for 6. Narine then picked up his third wicket when Sohag Gazi gave deep square leg a straightforward catch.
Kieron Pollard took a one-handed catch at short midwicket when Nasir Hossain couldn't keep a half-hearted pull-shot down, making it 66 for 8.
The last wicket fell when Al-Amin Hossain was comically run-out, providing an apt finish to the shambles that is Bangladesh's batting this year.
The top order, barring Tamim, didn't put up much resistance either. Anamul Haque and Imrul Kayes gave it away early, and Shamsur Rahman is yet to show he can shine in his new No. 4 position.
Kemar Roach was among the wickets, finishing with 3 for 19, while Jason Holder had one wicket and Ravi Rampaul two. Holder bowled in a different role today, taking the new ball and attacking the Bangladesh openers, of whom he had four to bowl at. Rampaul was slightly unlucky at the start, but made it up with the wickets later on. Roach was steady, without pushing the speed gun too much, and he didn't need to.
When they were put in to bat, West Indies' innings was neither disintegrating nor taking off for a big score. It started off with Kirk Edwards continuing his struggle with deliveries slanting in to the stumps, as he was bowled by Al-Amin Hossain for a duck.
Chris Gayle and Darren Bravo then added 88 for the second wicket with the former dominating the partnership. Gayle got to his first ODI fifty in more than a year with plenty of fours and sixes as is his norm. He started off with a straight six off Mashrafe Mortaza and whenever the opportunity presented itself, in the form of a short ball or a full toss, he latched on confidently.
There was a dearth of singles, but he made it up with the big hits, with the emphasis on picking up sixes and not fours.
The likes of Darren Bravo, Lendl Simmons and Denesh Ramdin struggled to get a move on as the Bangladesh spinners bowled with a lot of control. Abdur Razzak was wicketless in his ten overs but he provided stability, with Mahmudullah and Sohag Gazi providing enough reason to believe it was a decent move to base their attack on spinners.
Bravo got to a fifty while Ramdin and Simmons failed to push on. The fourth-wicket stand between Ramdin and Simmons progressed at less than four an over at an important stage in the innings, but it hardly mattered in the end as Bangladesh's winless streak extended to 12.
Bangladesh's lack of fight with the bat has continued, and the phone number-like scorecard after Tamim's 37 will haunt the team for a long time, or at least till their next meltdown.
| Bangladesh innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamim Iqbal | c Gayle b Roach | 37 | 81 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 74.00 |
| 16.1 84.7 mph, soft, soft dismissal there, Bangladesh have now lost Tamim and surely the match as well, this was a back of a length ball on leg stump, Tamim chips it off his thigh pad, straight to midwicket, bit of a leading edge there, that's their third wicket down in the previous six deliveries, no runs added, what did West Indies have for drinks? 57/6 | ||||||||
| Anamul Haque | c †Ramdin b Holder | 7 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 87.50 |
| 4.2 83.2 mph, length delivery just outside off which tempts Anamul into going forward, as the ball hits the outside edge on the way to the keeper. What a response from Holder after that earlier six! Anamul is not satisfied however, and has gone for the review straightaway. Replays show that there was indeed a deviation upon going past the bat, with a slight sound there as well. The original decision is out, remember. After some careful deliberation, the on-field umpire confirms that the original decision stands, and Anamul has to go. It is a pity, as he would badly have wanted to build on his hundred from the previous match. 12/1 | ||||||||
| Imrul Kayes | c Simmons b Rampaul | 1 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 |
| 7.3 83.2 mph, Kayes' struggle finally comes to a close as Rampaul is able to tempt him to go after a shortish length ball delivered on middle and off, with Kayes taking the bait, pulling him to the leg side, but not quite getting the control on it as it spoons high in the air and over to deep square leg, where Simmons takes a simple catch. He was looking to get going, but this is really not how you go about it. Bangladesh two down, and West Indies will be sniffing for another. 27/2 | ||||||||
| Shamsur Rahman | b Roach | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 |
| 9.6 82.8 mph, Roach strikes in his first over! fires in a short of a length ball outside off which has Shamsur going after it with a cut, but he ends up playing onto his wicket as he was a tad early in the shot. 42/3 | ||||||||
| Mushfiqur Rahim*† | c †Ramdin b Narine | 6 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 |
| 15.2 57.5 mph, Narine has struck! the Bangladesh captain is undone by the extra bounce, Mushfiqur was looking to chop that one through the off side, not much turn on that delivery, but fizzes off the pitch and rears up, top edge through to the keeper, Denesh Ramdin knows how big a wicket that is, he's off on a celebratory run, Bangladesh in deep trouble now 57/4 | ||||||||
| Mahmudullah | b Narine | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 15.3 59.9 mph, bowled 'im! Narine on a hat-trick, he had no luck in the first ODI, today things falling his way, this one doesn't get up much, stays low, too low for the struggling Mahmudullah, who looks to defend that offspinner but the ball sneaks through to crash into the stumps, Bangladesh have lost half their team already, perhaps they can take heart from the Ramdin-Pollard show two days ago 57/5 | ||||||||
| Nasir Hossain | c Pollard b Roach | 6 | 21 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 46.15 |
| 20.2 82.2 mph, another one, Nasir's lean spell continues, Roach is dropping plenty short in this spell, Nasir looks to help that away towards midwicket, hits it well enough to make it a touch catch for Pollard, who leaps high to pluck that one, last 32 balls, 10 runs, five wickets, a sorry spectacle for Bangladesh fans at home who are staying up past midnight 66/8 | ||||||||
| Sohag Gazi | c Edwards b Narine | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 |
| 17.5 61.3 mph, there's the wicket, Gazi decided the best way to deal with Narine is to go for his shots, he attempts a big sweep to a pitched-up ball, only connects well enough to pick out Kirk Edwards at deep square leg, Bangladesh seven down 60/7 | ||||||||
| Mashrafe Mortaza | lbw b Rampaul | 2 | 27 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 |
| 24.2 84.0 mph, huge lbw appeal, after thinking over it the umpire raises the finger, West Indies were pleading with him before the decision came, Mshrafe has to go, he was hit on the back leg by an offcutter, hit on the thigh pad, was it too high? Mashrafe thinks so, the umpire doesn't, Bangladesh nine down, and another sorry outing for them is coming to a close 70/9 | ||||||||
| Abdur Razzak | not out | 0 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Al-Amin Hossain | run out (Simmons/†Ramdin) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 24.4 from Rampaul, it's all over, 57 for 3 to 70 all out, that is some collapse even by Bangladeshi standards, and it ends with a farcical run-out, a solid drive towards mid-on by Al-Amin, he thinks it has beaten Simmons at mid-on, but Simmons makes a diving stop, Al-Amin was midway down the pitch when he realised he has to turn back, plenty of time for Simmons to relay the ball to Ramdin, who finishes off the 177-run victory 70/10 | ||||||||
| Extras | (w 5) | 5 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 24.4 overs) | 70 | (2.83 runs per over) | |||||
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