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Bangladesh spinners strangled West Indies in the second One Day International of the three-match series at Guyana on Wednesday.
Till filing of this report, West Indies were 72-7 in 27 overs. Romario Shepherd was batting on one and Keemo Paul was yet to open his account.
Tamim Iqbal, captain of the Bangladesh ODI team won the toss and decided to bat first. Mosaddek Hossain came back to the team after almost a year replacing Taskin Ahmed.
Shai Hope and Kyle Mayers opened the innings for the Caribbeans, they were cautious as they put on only 26 runs in the first 10 overs.
Though Bangladesh could draw first blood if wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan could complete the dismissal of Shai Hope in the fifth over.
The West Indian opener came down the track and missed the delivery from Mehidy Hasan but Sohan failed to do the stumping before Hope’s safe return.
The openers wanted to accelerate after the initial phase and lost quick wickets.
Mayers was the first to go, once again the all-rounder got dismissed by an off-spinner’s arm ball. Mosaddek took the first wicket after sitting out of the ODI team for almost a year.
Nasum Ahmed made his debut in the first ODI of the series but remained wicketless, he soon joined the party on Wednesday.
The left-arm spinner bowled Shamrah Brooks for just five runs, then Hope gave a catch to Mosaddek against Nasum’s delivery, and just after one delivery, he bowled Nicholas Pooran.
Nasum took three wickets to break the middle order of the West Indies team, Shoriful Islam removed dangerous Rovman Powell to quiet things up.
Powell was playing his naturally aggressive cricket, hit two boundaries but finally gave a catch to Mahmudullah at short mid-wicket.
Next to go was Brendon King, Mehidy Hasan dismissed him for 11 runs.
To add insult to injury, Akeal Hossain was run out for two runs
West Indies had a poor run in the first ODI at the same ground where they were restricted to 149-9 in 41 overs.
The scenario hasn’t improved much as they are struggling against the spinners in the second ODI as well.
Bangladesh lead the series 1-0.
