Bangladesh 40 for two (Alzarri 1-2, Seales 1-15) path West Indies 450 for 9 (Greaves 115, Louis 97, Athanaze 90, Roach 47, Hasan 3-87) by 410 runs
Greaves’ unbeaten 115 justified his Super50 type, the place he struck three consecutive centuries earlier this month. He made a affected person effort, hanging simply 4 boundaries in his 206-ball keep. It was the proper follow-up to the nineties that Alick Athanaze and Mikyle Louis had scored on day one to put the inspiration.
West Indies declared with Bangladesh needing to bat out a most time of an hour and 45 minutes. However there was no respite for them towards the four-man West Indian tempo assault. Zakir Hasan fell for 15 after he under-edged a Jayden Seales supply onto his stumps. The left-hander struck three fours in his brief keep, all off Seales, however was barely unfortunate with the ball shaving the leg-stump. Mahmudul Hasan Pleasure edged Alzarri Joseph for five, shortly after he was dropped on the identical rating.
It was a great distance from the beginning of the day for the guests, having began the day in the absolute best manner by taking two early wickets.
Mahmud eliminated Joshua Da Silva with the fifth ball of the morning session, trapped lbw with a supply that darted into his entrance pad. This was Mahmud’s first wicket within the recreation regardless of bowling nicely on the primary day. It was additionally his twenty fourth wicket this 12 months, making him the very best wicket-taker in a calendar 12 months amongst Bangladesh’s tempo bowlers.
File photograph: Hasan Mahmud had helped Bangladesh begin the morning nicely•BCCI
That quantity grew to become 25 when Alzarri fell in Mahmud’s subsequent over. Zakir took an outstanding two-handed catch at gully, paying homage to how he opened the Pakistan tour with Abdullah Shafique’s catch at gully in August. If Bangladesh sensed they’d their opening to bowl out West Indies for below 300 runs, that was blunted by Roach.
He was the fitting kind of foil for Greaves, who was prepared to grind out the Bangladesh assault. Greaves handed the strike to Roach sometimes, because the pair did not enable any extra wickets within the first session. There have been solely two boundaries in these 26 overs too, however that hardly bothered the house aspect who wanted a restoration.
Greaves began the second session along with his third boundary when he pulled Taskin via midwicket. He, nonetheless, survived a caught-behind likelihood on 77 with neither Taskin nor wicketkeeper Jaker Ali (who was deputizing for Litton Das after the primary session) listening to a faint nick. it was solely a replay on the large display screen that confirmed what Bangladesh missed out on.
Shortly afterwards, a Roach single introduced up the group’s maiden century partnership for the eighth wicket towards Bangladesh. It was adopted by a rain break of seven minutes, after which Roach slammed Mehidy over his head for his first boundary. Mahmud lastly eliminated Roach with a high-quality angling supply, clipping the highest of his middle-stump. Their 140-run stand was West Indies’ third-highest for the eighth wicket.
Greaves quickly reached his century along with his fourth boundary shot, driving Taijul via the covers. It was doubtlessly his finest shot of the innings and the landmark was solely his second first-class ton.
West Indies declared within the 145th over of their innings, after their tail-enders Seales and Shamar Joseph struck some meaty blows. That left sufficient time for the bowlers to have a crack, which they efficiently did.
Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo’s Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84
