One Day Test Cricket

The West Indies are in a powerful position thanks to some fast and bullish fast bowling from Fidel Edwards and some lunatic fringe batting from the Bangladeshi top order.

Resuming at 5-253, the West Indies added another 100 runs as Kirk Edwards reached his second hundred in only five Test innings and Marlon Samuels breezed to 48 before playing loosely and being caught and bowled in spectacular fashion by Nasir Hossain.

Fidel Edwards: five wickets in
five overs

Bangladesh started like they had a bus to catch and the more they swung, the faster and shorter Fidel Edwards bowled. By the ninth over they had 59 on the board but Edwards, then in his fifth over, had five wickets. It was slap and tickle cricket which included a brilliant at catch at short leg by Darren Bravo from Tamim Iqbal and mostly dumb batting from Bangladesh. Shakib Al Hasan, after taking five wickets, continued the free strokeplay in face of a crisis, scoring 73 at a run a ball and adding 84 with Naeem Islam before Davendra Bishoo turned one through the gate and bowled him. Naeem was run out near the end of the day in mix up with Nasir over a third run. With the batsmen starting and stopping, Roach threw to the wrong end and Bishoo redirected to the keeper in a display of Keystone Cops cricket. Naeem had looked the best of the batsmen and it was waste that may turn this Test match.