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18 Sunday, November 25, 2018 Sports Taijul bowls Bangladesh to thrilling win against WI he loss condemns West Indies to their irst defeat in Bangladesh in seven Tests AFP SCOREBOARD CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH Bangladesh second innings ( overnight TAIJUL Islam claimed 6-33 as 55-5) Imrul Kayes b Warrican 2 Bangladesh defeated West In- Soumya Sarkar c Brathwaite b Chase 11 dies by 64 runs on Saturday in Mominul Haque lbw b Chase 12 the first match of their two-Test Mohammad Mithun b Bishoo 17 series. Shakib Al Hasan c Gabriel b Warrican 1 Mushfiqur Rahim b Gabriel 19 Pakistani batsmen Haris Sohail (right) and Babar Azam during the Chasing a target of 204 runs Mehidy Hasan c Dowrich b Bishoo 18 in Chittagong, West Indies stut- Mahmudullah Riyad c Hope b Bishoo 31 irst day of the second Test match against New Zealand at the Dubai tered from the start and were Nayeem Hasan c Hope b Bishoo 5 International Stadium on Saturday. (AFP) all out for 139 on the stroke of Taijul Islam c Warrican b Chase 1 Mustafizur Rahman not out 2 tea on the third day, suffering Extras (b2, lb1, nb3) 6 their first defeat in Bangladesh Total (all out 35.5 overs) 125 Ali, Sohail boost in seven Tests. Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Imrul Kayes), 2-13 Sunil Ambris was the last (Soumya Sarkar), 3-32 (Mominul), 4-35 man dismissed after top-scor- (Shakib), 5-53 (Mithun) 6-69 (Mushfiqur), 7-106 (Mehidy), 8-122 (Nayeem), 9-123 Pakistan to strong ing for the visitors with 43. He (Mahmudullah), 10-125 (Taijul) Bowling: had put on a 63-run partner- Roach 1-0-11-0, Warrican 16-2-43-2, ship with Jomel Warrican for Chase 6.5-1-18-3, Bishoo 9-0-26-4, start against NZ Gabriel 3-0-24-1 the ninth wicket to lift West In- West Indies second innings dies from 75 for eight to revive K. Brathwaite lbw b Taijul 8 an unlikely hope. Bangladeshi cricketer Taijul Islam (left) celebrates with captain Shakib al Hasan (centre) after the dismiss- K. Powell st Mushfiqur b Shakib 0 REUTERS test with a match haul of seven But Mehidy Hasan dis- al of West Indies Devendra Bishoo during the third day of the irst Test at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury S. Hope c Mushfiqur b Shakib 3 DUBAI wickets, then sent back Asad Stadium in Chittagong on Saturday. (AFP) S. Ambris c Mushfiqur b Taijul 43 missed Warrican for 41, and R. Chase lbw b Taijul 0 Shafiq for 12. Taijul sealed the contest in the S. Hetmyer c Nayeem b Mehidy 27 AZHAR Ali and Haris Sohail Sohail, who smashed 10 next over with the wicket of Am- Bangladesh for 125 runs in their Kraigg Brathwaite in the same Mehidy and Mahmudullah S. Dowrich lbw b Taijul 5 scored half-centuries as Paki- boundaries in his 240-ball bris. second innings. over, leaving the West Indies in tried to rebuild the innings, put- D. Bishoo b Taijul 2 stan overcame a shaky start to knock, helped Pakistan to see K. Roach lbw b Taijul 1 Left-arm spinner Taijul Bangladesh spinners re- dire straits. ting on 37 for the seventh wicket J. Warrican c Shakib b Mehidy 41 reach 207-4 against New Zea- off the second new ball and led Bangladesh’s attack with sponded almost immediately The collapse dashed any before Mehidy was removed by S. Gabriel not out 0 land on day one of the second guided them to the close of play his seventh five-wicket haul in when Shakib drew Kieran West Indies satisfaction from Bishoo for 18. Extras (b9) 9 test in Dubai on Saturday. without any further hiccups. Tests, while Shakib al Hasan Powell forward for Mushfiqur wrapping up the Bangladesh in- Bishoo then dismissed Nay- Total ( all out; 35.2 overs) 139 Sohail was unbeaten on a Earlier, New Zealand pacer Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Powell), 2-11 (Hope), and Mehidy each picked up two Rahim to accomplish a simple nings, with the hosts only add- eem Hasan and Mahmudullah 3-11 (Brathwaite), 4-11 (Chase), 5-44 patient 81 while Babar Azam Colin de Grandhomme had wickets. stumping, making Shakib the ing 70 runs to their overnight in a quick succession, while (Hetmyer) 6-51 (Dowrich), 7-69 (Bishoo), was batting on 14 after New openers Mohammad Hafeez (9) West Indies’ chase got off first Bangladeshi cricketer to score after resuming play on Chase wrapped up the Bang- 8-75 (Roach), 9-138 (Warrican), 10-139 Zealand hit back in the final and Imam-ul-Haq (9) caught by to a disastrous start, sinking to claim 200 wickets in Tests. 55-5. Mahmudullah Riyad top- ladesh innings by dismissing (Ambris) Bowling: Shakib 7-0-30-2, session to leave the contest at Tom Latham in the slips with a Nayeem 7-1-29-0, Taijul 11.2-2-33-6, 11-4 at the lunch break before “Whatever I do, I do for the scored for Bangladesh with 31 Taijul. Mehidy 8-1-27-2, Mustafizur 2-0-11-0 the Dubai International Cricket fine spell on a helpful morning an attacking 27 off 19 by Shim- team, and I’m lucky to have in the second innings, but not West Indies captain Brath- Result: Bangladesh won by 64 runs Stadium evenly balanced. wicket. ron Hetmyer provided the visi- some of these achievements,” before he was dropped by Hope waite hailed Bangladesh for Series result: Bangladesh lead the series Pakistan found themselves While De Grandhomme tors a brief respite. Shakib said after the match. off Bishoo on 15. their performance. 1-0 in a spot of bother at 25-2 with- made the early inroads, his pace Leg-spinner Devendra Bish- Shakib drew an edge from Pace bowler Gabriel took “A tough loss for us. I Man of the match: Mominul Haque in the first 10 overs after captain colleague Trent Boult heaped oo earlier claimed three wickets Shai Hope before a two-wicket the first breakthrough of the thought the Bangladesh team Sarfraz Ahmed had won the the pressure on Pakistan’s top in the morning to finish with burst by Taijul, who trapped day when he bowled Mushfiqur did very well,” he said. dies scored 246 runs in reply to toss and elected to bat first. order with some incisive bowl- 4-26 as West Indies bowled out Roston Chase for a duck and Rahim for 19. In the first innings, West In- Bangladesh’s 324. Azhar, who could not pre- ing and was unlucky not to be vent a narrow defeat in the first rewarded with a scalp of his test despite a defiant 65 in the own. second innings, put on 126 runs Azhar hit seven boundaries with Sohail for the third wicket and sent one over the fence as Shakib makes to leave Pakistan in control. he combined with Sohail to England on top after Sri Lanka collapse But his run-out in the 71st grind out the Kiwi bowling, but elite group of over saw the New Zealand- perished in a mix-up as he ap- AFP other five between them. ers spring to life and spinner proached what would have been all-rounders, COLOMBO With bat in hand and only Ajaz Patel, the hero of the first a well-deserved century. five overs of the day played, promises SRI Lanka threw away a de- Sri Lanka’s batsmen laid solid SCOREBOARD cent position in the final Test foundations. Danushka Gu- against England on Saturday, nathilaka was the only man PAKISTAN INNINGS Ali, Mohammad Abbas better show collapsing from 183 for 2 at tea out for Sri Lanka before lunch, Imam-ul-Haq c Latham b de Grandhomme 9 Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Hafeez), 2-25 (Imam), 3-151 Mohammad Hafeez c Latham b de Grandhomme 9 (Azhar), 4-174 (Shafiq) Bowling: Boult 18-5-50-0, to 240 all out as Adil Rashid caught spectacularly by Kea- Azhar Ali run out 81 Grandhomme 19-7-31-2, Wagner 22-7-44-0 (1nb), AFP and Ben Stokes skittled the ton Jennings at short leg for Haris Sohail not out 81 Patel 19-3-60-1, Sodhi 12-0-22-0 CHITTAGONG hosts in Colombo. 18 off Leach -- the first of four Asad Shafiq c Wagner b Patel 12 New Zealand: Kane Williamson (captain), Trent Boult, At the close of a rollercoast- catches at short-leg for the Babar Azam not out 14 Colin de Grandhomme, Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls, Extras: (nb 1) 1 Ajaz Patel, Jeet Raval, BJ Watling, Ish Sodhi, Ross Taylor, RECORD-BREAKING Bangla- er second day England were Lancashire opener. Dimuth Total: (for four wkts; 90 overs) 207 Neil Wagner desh skipper Shakib Al Hasan three without loss after four Karunaratne, dropped at slip Still to bat: Sarfraz Ahmed, Bilal Asif, Yasir Shah, Hasan Toss: Pakistan promised an ever better perfor- overs when bad light stopped by Joe Root off Broad early in mance in the next Test after he play, 99 runs ahead with a 3-0 his innings, then put on a 142- overcame fitness concerns to whitewash in their sights. run third-wicket partnership lead the hosts to a 64-run win “We came out after tea, with Dhananjaya de Silva. against the West Indies on Sat- had the belief, had the mindset Just before tea, de Silva fell Hamilton storms to pole as urday. and things just changed,” said for 73, dismissed by another Shakib was included in the Rashid, who finished the in- lightning catch by Jennings off Mercedes get front-row record squad for the opening Test in nings with 5-49.