West Indies Sweep Bangladesh With 10-wicket Rout In Second Test

GrosIslet, Saint Lucia, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – twenty eighth Jun, 2022 ) :est Indies wasted no time on a day when greater than 5 hours had been misplaced to the weather to finish a 10-wicket victory over Bangladesh on the fourth day of the second and closing Test in St Lucia on Monday.

Frustrated by torrential in a single day showers which left a sodden outfield and prevented play till mid-afternoon, the house facet claimed the final 4 wickets swiftly regardless of an entertaining, unbeaten 60 by Nurul Hasan to dismiss the guests for 186 of their second innings after they’d resumed within the already precarious place of 132 for six.

That left captain Kraigg Brathwaite and opening accomplice John Campbell with the formality of knocking off the 13 runs required for victory in lower than three overs for an additional complete triumph and a 2-0 sweep of the sequence.

It prolonged the West Indies’ Test match successful streak to 3 matches following a series-clinching victory over England on the finish of the sequence in Grenada three months earlier.

Any fears of being annoyed by lower-order resistance from Bangladesh dissipated inside minutes of play getting underway as Alzarri Joseph had Mehidy Hasan Miraz caught behind fending at a lifting supply.

Nurul, who impressed with a second innings century within the seven-wicket defeat within the first Test in Antigua per week earlier, appeared to get into white ball mode with a succession of extravagant pictures, his unbeaten half-century coming off simply 50 balls and embellished by six fours and two sixes.

Yet as spectacular as he was when on strike, the wicketkeeper-batsman was powerless to forestall the demise of his teammates as Jayden Seales eliminated Ebadot Hossain and Shoriful islam whereas final man Khaled Ahmed was run out by a direct hit from Campbell to the non-striker’s finish to terminate one other usually meek Bangladesh batting effort.

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