OTD: Bangladesh fall for 43 against West Indies in 2018

It was on this day, seven years ago, that Bangladesh were bundled out for a paltry 43 in their first innings of the first Test of the two-match series against West Indies at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.

After the hosts won the toss and opted to field, their innings lasted only 18.4 overs. Kemar Roach sent back Tamim Iqbal (four off 13) and Mominul Haque (one off three) before a triple-wicket blitz in his subsequent over left Bangladesh five down within nine overs. Litton Das, who had scored 25 out of his side’s 34 runs by the end of the 13th over, departed in the 14th.

Miguel Cummins struck once more in the same over to bowl a double-wicket maiden while the final couple of wickets were secured by Jason Holder. This was Bangladesh’s lowest-ever Test total at the time after 62 against Sri Lanka at the P Sara Oval in 2007. All in all, there were a total of 10 single-digit scores in the visitors’ innings. Roach ended up with fabulous figures of 5/8 in five overs.

West Indies eventually ended up winning the game by an innings and 219 runs. They scored more than nine times (406) Bangladesh’s first innings total. Wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan’s 64-run knock provided some respectability to Bangladesh’s second innings score of 144. Shannon Gabriel, who had gone wicketless earlier, bagged a five-wicket haul to finish things off.

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